John Stilley john-science

Just various chess games I found interesting. Ideally, I find a PGN and paste it into the lichess analysis board.

YEAR_MM_DD	Light Player	Dark Player	Result	Link	Thoughts
1834	McDonnell	De La Bourdonnais	0-1	W YT	An amazing push of three pawns all the way to the 8th rank.
1847	Paul Morphy	Alonzo Morphy	1-0	YT L	An 8-year-old Paul Morphy beats his father in a very solid game.
1850-05	Paul Morphy	Johann Lowenthal	1-0	YT	Morphy, 13, wins his first game against a master.
1850-05	Paul Morphy	Johann Lowenthal	1-0

Hot Sauces

Pepperhead

SHU References

Trustworthy Websites to Buy Coins

US Mint - Only modern US coins and proofs and such. But absolutely trustworthy.
VCoins - meta seller. Lots of old coins, lots of price ranges.
ma-shops - auction site, but "certified sellers"
Great Collections - Small, but all certified from trusted sellers
APMEX - good for silver Peace and Morgans
USA Coin Book - great for US coins
NumisBids - coin auction site. Lots of variety. Hard do search. Good for filling in a hole in a set (you can set an alert).
Heritage Auctions

Notes on "Nuclear Systems"

These are just my notes on the textbook "Nuclear Systems" Volume 1, by Todreas and Kazimi. The textbook seems to be a classic on "Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals" of nuclear power reactors.

Chapter 1: Principal Characteristic of Power Reactors

This chapter attempts to give a friendly, high-level comparison of the different kinds of nuclear power reactors out there. It gives some reference as to their similarities and differences, and general performance and safety characteristics.

Neutron Energy Range	Energy Range Name

Physics - In Brief

Classical Mechanics - Super Yawn

Newton's Laws
Hamiltonian & Lagrangian
- Comparison of the two equations - profoundphysics.com
- Hamiltonian Mechanics - Wikipedia
- Lagranian Mechanics - Wikipedia

A Nuclear Engineering Reading List

Good Places to Start

whatisnuclear.com

The MIT Nuclear Engineering Ciriculum

Convert SciPy.integrate.ode.vode to Cython

This is a research task. The SciPy Vode ODE solver is 1600 lines of Fortran with 250 goto statements, so a direct translation is actually quite tedious. It would be much easier without the goto statements, or if the code was in C, C++, etcetera.

	set linebreak
	set textwidth=100
	set showmatch
	set hlsearch
	set smartcase

	"""
	Modeling the Monty Hall Problem

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

	Suppose you're on a game show, and you're
	given the choice of three doors: Behind one
	door is a car; behind the others, goats. You
	pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who
	knows what's behind the doors, opens another

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD