Strassen algorithm by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Polanyi's paradox by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
AlphaEvolve by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Basically they require users to hand-code a metric and provide a program skeleton with some parts of the code marked to be replaced, and then the system focuses on modifying the code regions in question to optimize the metric.
All the novel results they announced were in constraint satisfaction problems or optimization problem. Their results are still awesome, but it's not very different from AlphaGo style things.
Star Wars meme by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
That's not my lightsaber Star Wars meme
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Multiplication of matrices of specific size by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
DeepMind likes coming up with new improved algorithms for these more specific cases, e.g. it was announced in 2025 that AlphaEvolve found a novel 4x4 complex valued algorithm that uses 48 multiplications.
Bibliography:
Apple II by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Apple I by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Steve Jobs' Apple-1 sells for $945k
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Saint Eligius by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Saint Eligius by Petrus Christus
. Source. Eligius pool is named after Saint Eligius, patron of goldsmiths and miners[ref]
Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering by Because Science (2019)
Source. Shows an explicit Turing complete Magic The Gathering setup with real cards in a standard "extremely lucky" 2 player game.
Dimensionality reduction by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-21 Updated 2025-07-16
I can't believe I had missed that meme until now, and I couldn't resist the temptation to translate it
Video 1.
Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands (2017)
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Video 2.
Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands (2022)
Source.
Video 3.
Those against raise their hands Xi Jinping remix by Ciro Santilli
. Source. I also couldn't resist a Kdenlive exercise in voice sampling. It was remarkably easy to do, not bad.
Video 4.
Al Capone hits a homerun scene from the film The Untouchables
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Video 5.
Committee meeting scene from the film The Death of Stalin
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After yet another awesome announcement by DeepMind that it had improved theoretical 4x4 matrix multiplication reducing the number of scalar multiplications with its AlphaEvolve system, I decided to have a look at the smallest open size 3x3 to understand what was going on in there.
Updates / Two Linux Kernel Module Cheat videos by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-05-13 Updated 2025-07-16
I made not one but two quick presentation videos about my project Linux Kernel Module Cheat, an emulation setup to study and develop the Linux kernel and more:
I had meant to do this editing for a while and kept pushing it off because editing hurts, but finally sat down did it, partly prompted by my quick recent updates made to the projects part of post OurBigBook job search round 2025. At first I was thinking of making a single video, but after I recorded the demo a bit it seemed like two separate ones would make more sense.
I also created a bug report for Kdenlive, the video editor that I used, for a freeze that happens if you try to shift + delete the last item of the timeline: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504103. Kdenlive is a good editor, but unfortunately it has new freezes and crashes relatively often.
One more useless task that I get off my head, on to the next!
Video 2.
Linux Kernel Module Cheat demo
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Home by ibis 0 2025-05-07
Welcome to my home page!

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 5. . 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.
  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
    .
    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