A semi-famous retailer of scientific supplies and instruments.
I don’t want this to be Vega’s Opinionated Big Ass Book To Give You An All-In-One Education, both because VegaOpBABTGYAAIOEdu is far less catchy, and because I don’t even think it’s possible. The more I write on this the more I value input of others and other resources I find, and the more happy I am that I called this project Opinionated Guides.
A Guide. That’s what I want this to be. I want OpGuides to be a resource that’s like your friend you can come back to for advice on where to go next, and I think that’s something the internet really needs. Search engines are were awesome for finding information, but only when you know what to look for, so I figure OpGuides can be a sort of curated information source, with the crappy results filtered out, the best resources I know of included, and a healthy mix of entertainment in the education so that it’s not a chore to read.
If you’re here, you must be seriously lost. I’m sorry for your misfortune.
That said, if you’d like to hang around a while and see what’s here, then feel free. But be warned, I’m pretty damn good at wasting other people’s time. Also be advised that without the burden of an editor I take far too many words to describe anything since electrons are free. Hmmm…I guess this paragraph is an example in and of itself. Verbosity rules!
A website with lots of different conversion utilities. Plug in the values, get the answers, and get on with your life.
Maybe make a bot out of this?
Not as mysterious as you might think..
A concise overview of electronic theory for geeks.
Homepage for a pair of textbooks on quantum mechanics that heavily use multimedia presentations to explain the complex concepts (well, all of them).
An excellent lesson on entropy (in the mathematical sense) using interactive sheep and grade school physics as illustrations.