Tiling of the plane Updated 2025-07-16
How to diagnose a genius by Wilhelm Ostwald (1909) Updated 2025-07-16
From the abstract:Ciro Santilli couldn't agree more... notably students must have a flexible choice of what to learn.
Much money, his student went on to say, is spent by various Governments in attempting to discover those people whose thorough education may be expected to bring in a return of value to the State, and the question how best to discover latent genius is an eminently practical one. After cogitation, Prof. Ostwald came to the conclusion that it is those students who cannot be kept on the rails - that is, who are not contented with methodical teaching - who have within them the seeds of genius
Advanced Placement Updated 2025-07-16
Descriptive statistics Updated 2025-07-16
Static site generator Updated 2025-07-16
The best one is OurBigBook CLI of course! :-)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #9 OurBigBook.com Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #9 Not work Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #8 OurBigBook.com Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #7 ourbigbook.com Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #7 Misc tech Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #7 Not work Updated 2025-07-16
I was trying to learn about how some types of quantum computers work, when I came across this pearl:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Paul#Scientific_results Wolfgang Paul, 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, referred to Wolfgang Pauli, 1945 winner, as his "imaginary part".
Ciro's Edict #6 ourbigbook.com Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #6 China front Updated 2025-07-16
I've started rewatching The Water Margin, it is just so good. I'm taking some reasonable notes this time however, because due to Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory I'll forget the details again otherwise.
That type of rebellion symbology could also be useful against the Chinese government. It is interesting that Mao Zedong loved the novel.
Water Margin tribute to Chinese dissidents
. Source. Ciro's Edict #5 ourbigbook.com Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #5 Misc tech Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #5 China front Updated 2025-07-16
The China front was of course the Russia front this time: stackoverflow.com/users/895245 (web.archive.org/web/20220322230513/https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-Путлер-Капут-六四事)
Ciro's Edict #5 Not work Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #4 ourbigbook.com Updated 2025-07-16
I had meant to make an update earlier, but I wanted to try and add some more "visible end-user changes" to OurBigBook.com.
Just noticed BTW that signup on the website is broken. Facepalm. Not that it matters much since it is not very useful in the current state, but still. Going to fix that soon. EDIT: nevermind, it wasn't broken, I just had JavaScript disabled on that website with an extension to test if pages are visible without JavaScript, and yes, they are perfectly visible, you can't tell the difference! But you can't login without JavaScript either!
I still haven't the user visible ones I wanted, but I've hit major milestones, and it feels like time for an update.
I have now finished all the OurBigBook CLI features that I wanted for 1.0, all of which will be automatically reused in ourbigbook.com.
The two big things since last email were the following:
A secondary but also important advance was: further improvements to the website's base technology.
Ciro's Edict #4 Misc tech Updated 2025-07-16
I've finally had enough of Nvidia breaking my Ubuntu 21.10 suspend, so I investigated some more and found a workaround on the NVIDIA forums: stackoverflow.com/questions/58233482/next-js-setting-up-eslint-for-nextjs/70519682#70519682.
Thanks enormously to heroic user humblebee, and once again, Nvidia, fuck you.
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