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Last update April 28, 2025

What do electrons really do? All New: Schrödinger's Play

Electrons are often described as discrete particles making quantum jumps but there is little hard proof they do. Rather, these ideas may come from complex mathematical models used to describe the quantum world.

If so, then what do electrons do? Although no one really knows, this new video is enlightening and entertaining. It presents a unique live streaming simulation of a hydrogen atom with light and photons using Schrödinger's equation while skipping more formal complexity.

Music by Chopin, Tchaikovsky and others. Headphones and full screen monitor for an audio visual experience. Never mind the sound of Werner Heisenberg turning in his grave.



Incredibly fast human genome assembly and processing

Your genome is very very long. Every human has two genomes each with 3 billion DNA base pairs that would circle the Earth if each was the size of an ant. Even on the atomic scale a single genome is two meters long! The problem comes in assembling and searching this huge amount of data.





The only custom parallel C compiler for AMD's GCN based GPU processors

CGN is AMD's current GPU architecture called Graphics Core Next. Ideal for anyone who enjoys the astounding power of modern computing hardware.



The Great Burmese Bangkok earthquake of March 28, 2025

For geological reasons, the March 28 7.7 magnitude earthquake centered in Mandalay hit Bangkok unusually hard. It was quite scary in out 20th floor condo as it went on for almost 3 minutes growing in intensity as subsequent waves hit. The video is after it subsided as no one wanted to get up to record it.



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