MacArthur Fellows Program by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-12-02
Holy fuck what a eye watering amount, $800k over 5 years as of 2025, this is exactly what Ciro Santilli would need to push forward OurBigBook! He also fits the requirements quite well, as a "creative person". For Americans or US residents only though, sad. Outdated requirement given the Internet age.
Fibonacci sequence by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-07-16
Alpha School by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2026-01-30
The school's model is to offer two hours of academic learning each day using "AI tutors", while the rest of the day is dedicated to developing life skills
The founding lady has several other interesting schools e.g. gt.school:
We believe that kids do not need 12 years to finish school — they can accomplish so much more when given the environment and resources to do so
At GT School we’ve revolutionized the classroom by replacing traditional teachers with dedicated guides who serve as mentors
Pretty awesome.
Video 1.
2 Hour Learning Deep Dive by Alpha School
. Source.
Integer sequence by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-07-16
Rainbird Technologies by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-07-16
MacArthur Foundation by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-07-16
YouTube video downloader by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-07-16
Odile Crick by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-12 Updated 2025-07-16
Many of the files appear to contain JavaScript functions in a format generated by Adobe Dreamweaver, making it almost certain that at least some of the websites were developed in that editor. This was first pointed out by Reddit user sq00q. Also note that the username spells "boobs" upside down in leet.
For example, starwarsweb.net contains the four following functions, first commented out which is funny and has some version comments:
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
and then repeated on a body onload. Here MM_ stands for MacroMedia, and is mentioned e.g. at:
Doing:
git grep MM_swapImage | sed -r 's/\/.*//' | sort -u | wc
on github.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-websites-dump currently gives 64 hits out of 421 websites.
The same signatures are also found on the early websites from 2004 such as alljohnny.com.
Sup!? (P2FK client) by Ciro Santilli 40 Created 2025-06-02 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Sup!? Buying, Listing and Offers by EMBII
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Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi by Amod Dalvi 0 Created 2025-05-30 Updated 2026-03-21
Rao Saheb Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi (1844 – 10 February 1897), was my great-great grandfather an Indian judge and mathematicianHe obtained his BA degree in 1865 from Elphinstone College in Bombay. He was then selected as senior scholar and obtained the MA degree from Elphinstone College in 1866. He obtained his LLB degree in 1868 and was a Senior Dakshina Fellow in 1868.In the 1860’s he systematically examined Newton's rule for finding the number of imaginary roots and in 1869 published his book titled "An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Rule for finding the Number of Imaginary Square Roots in an Equation" in which he provides mechanical and geometric theorems and gives a direct and complete proof and disproof of the equation.D.A Dalvi states that the chief aim of his own rule was to find out the limit beyond which imaginary roots cannot exceed. He goes on to prove that if imaginary roots exist at all, they cannot exceed a certain number and in this show the superiority of the “Dalvi Rule “so referred to in the Times of India 9. He states that however it must not be supposed that this affords us the means by which to ascertain the exact number of imaginary roots any given equation may have, nor whether even one imaginary root exists in an equation. Newton’s rule may hence fail to detect imaginary roots in an equation when they actually exist in an equation and the roots may fall short of the number but be all real. He however agreed that when imaginary roots of an equation are all equal Newton’s criterial fully applies and although Newtons law is true for some values of the literal co-efficient of the general terms in an equation, it is not universally true.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 2.
    You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either https://OurBigBook.com or as a static website
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    Figure 3.
    Visual Studio Code extension installation
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    Figure 4.
    Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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    Figure 5.
    Web editor
    . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
    Video 4.
    OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
    . Source.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact