The truth and lies of the ANSI standard. From Dirty Read to Write Skew, exploring the extremes of MVCC through the implementation differences between PostgreSQL and MySQL (InnoDB).
The Mandelbrot set, the coastline paradox, and the fractional dimensions between 1D and 2D. The order of nature unraveled by geometry and measure theory.
The internal design of GPUs pushing for extreme high throughput. The essence of SM, warp scheduling, tensor cores, and shared memory optimization.
From mechanical control to electronic multiplex computer control. The conflict in design philosophy between Boeing and Airbus, sensor fusion, and autoland technology.
The core of the Linux kernel 'CFS'. The mathematics of vruntime management via Red-Black trees, NUMA-aware load balancing, and quota control via cgroups.
From the indie production of 'Voices of a Distant Star' to 'Your Name' and 'Suzume'. Reinterpretation of photorealism, color design of lens effects and ambient light, Sekai-kei, and the narratology of the disaster.
Alan Turing's masterpiece from his later years. A complete coverage of the astounding mechanisms of animal stripes and geometric patterns emerging from reaction-diffusion equations, from linear stability analysis to numerical simulation in Python, all the way to modern molecular biology.
From the Nautilus to the Virginia class. Thermal-hydraulic design of pressurized water reactors (PWR), steam turbines and reduction gears, extreme engineering of natural circulation and stealth quietness.
“Spooky action at a distance” and the EPR paradox. The trajectory to the Nobel Prize, Bell's theorem, and Aspect's experiment that proved the breakdown of local realism.
Liquid helium climbing walls with zero viscosity, the fountain effect, and the topology of quantum vortices. The marvel of BEC where bosons degenerate into a single wavefunction.
From 'points' to 'strings' as elementary particles. The compactification of extra dimensions using Calabi-Yau manifolds, and the current state of the ultimate theory integrating gravity and quantum theory.
Copy-on-Write (CoW), Self-healing via Merkle tree checksums, Snapshots, and RAID-Z. Storage technologies overcoming data corruption.
A miracle 100 years after Einstein's prediction. The incredible measurement precision of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA and the future of multi-messenger astronomy.
The history of mathematics surrounding the planar map coloring problem. From Kempe's false proof to Appel & Haken's first-ever computer proof, and the redefinition of mathematical 'beauty'.
A world-renowned theory founded by Shun-ichi Amari. A bridge to the Fisher information metric, natural gradient descent, and machine learning that geometrizes the space of probability distributions.
The negative energy solutions predicted by the Dirac equation. The discovery of the positron, pair production and annihilation, and the cosmology of 'why only matter remained'.
L1/L2/L3 cache hierarchies, cache lines, MESI state transitions, the tragedy of False Sharing, and memory consistency models.
Herbert O. Yardley and MI-8. The decryption of Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs codes at the Washington Naval Treaty, the closure triggered by Stimson's 'Gentlemen do not read each other's mail,' and the lineage to the NSA.
Collect all the books of the world. The miracle of the Museion, Eratosthenes and Archimedes, the fate of papyrus scrolls, the myth of destruction, and the transfer of knowledge to the Middle Ages.
How did Bohr respond to 'God does not play dice'? Wave-particle complementarity, the indivisibility of observer and observed, and the greatest turning point in 20th-century scientific thought.
