Home by Wendy Kellett 0 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-04-18
Welcome to my home page!
Alpha helix by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Rotating Ball-and-stick model of an alpha helix structure
. Source.
TODO understand in detail.
Advanced quantum mechanics by Freeman Dyson (1951) mentions:
A Relativistic Quantum Theory of a Finite Number of Particles is Impossible.
Atom 2007 Mini Series episode 3:
[The Dirac equation] could only describe a single electron. It fails completely to explain what happens when there is more than one electron present. What was needed was a new theory. A theory which explains how electrons interact with each other.
OmniGibson by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
Reference implementation of the BEHAVIOR Benchmark.
Built on Nvidia Omniverse unfortunately, which appears to be closed source software. Why do these academics do it.
"Gibson" seems to be related to an older project: github.com/StanfordVL/GibsonEnv which explains the name choice:
Gibson environment is named after James J. Gibson, the author of "Ecological Approach to Visual Perception", 1979. "We must perceive in order to move, but we must also move in order to perceive"
Secondary structure motif by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
AI Habitat by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
Homepage: aihabitat.org/
The thing was definitely built by researchers. How to cite first, actually working later! And docs are just generally awkward.
Video 1.
Habitat 2.0: Training home assistants to rearrange their habitat by AI at Meta
. Source. Quick teaser video.
BEHAVIOR Benchmark by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
Quite impressive.
Focuses on daily human tasks around the house.
Models soft-body dynamics, fluid dynamics and object states such as heat/wetness.
TODO are there any sample solutions with their scores? Sample videos would be specially nice. Funny to see how they put so much effort setting up the benchmark but there's not a single solution example.
Figure 1.
Comparison table of BEHAVIOR-1K with other benchmarks by BEHAVIOR Benchmark
. Source. This can serve as a nice list of robot AI benchmarks.
Video 1.
Fei-Fei Li announcing the BEHAVIOR Benchmark at AMLC 2022.
Source.
Fei-Fei Li by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16
This was almost a two-in-one Nobel for a single dude: both for chemical bond theory and secondary structure theories such as the alpha helix! A beast.
Soft-body dynamics by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2025-02-22 Updated 2025-07-16

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