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Major projects can be seen at: Section "The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli".

A summary of minor projects is given at: Ciro Santilli's minor projects.

This section is a dump for anything else, to keep those sacred first sections that show on the top of the homepage clean.

List of cults by

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yolov5-pip by

Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16

github.com/fcakyon/yolov5-pip

OK, now we're talking, two liner and you get a window showing bounding box object detection from your webcam feed!

python -m pip install -U yolov5==7.0.9
yolov5 detect --source 0

The accuracy is crap for anything but people. But still. Well done. Tested on Ubuntu 22.10, P51.

Video 1.

fcakyon/yolov5-pip webcam object detection demo by Ciro Santilli (2023)

. Source.

Sally Brailsford by

Sally Brailsford is a recognized figure in the field of operations research, management science, and decision support systems. She has made significant contributions to the development of methodologies and tools that aid in decision-making processes. Her work often intersects with healthcare, logistics, and service operations, and she has been involved in various academic and practical applications of these disciplines.

Yasmín Ríos-Solís by

As of my last update in October 2021, there is no widely recognized figure or entity specifically known as "Yasmín Ríos-Solís". It is possible that she is a private individual, a public figure, or an emerging personality who gained recognition after that date.

Operator theorists by

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Gelfand–Naimark theorem by

The Gelfand–Naimark theorem is a fundamental result in functional analysis and the theory of C*-algebras. It establishes a deep connection between C*-algebras and normed spaces, specifically in the context of representation theory.

Differential operator by

A differential operator is a mathematical operator used to denote the process of differentiation. In the context of a function, it takes a function as its input and produces the derivative of that function as output. Differential operators are commonly used in calculus, physics, engineering, and many other fields to analyze and describe rates of change and various physical phenomena.

Dilation (operator theory) by

In operator theory, dilation refers to a specific concept particularly relevant in the study of linear operators on Hilbert spaces. The idea of dilation relates to the representation of certain types of operators (often bounded operators) in terms of larger, often simpler, operators. Dilation can be viewed from different perspectives, including matrix dilation, functional analytic dilation, and quantum mechanical contexts. ### 1. **Unitary Dilation**: A common type of dilation in operator theory is unitary dilation.

Discrete Laplace operator by

The Discrete Laplace operator, often referred to as the discrete Laplacian, is a crucial mathematical tool used primarily in the fields of numerical analysis, image processing, and physics when dealing with discrete data, such as grids or meshes. It is a finite difference analogue of the continuous Laplace operator, which captures the concept of local curvature or diffusion.

Positive operator (Hilbert space) by

In the context of Hilbert spaces and functional analysis, a **positive operator** is a specific type of bounded linear operator that acts on a Hilbert space. Here's a more detailed explanation: ### Definitions and Properties 1. **Hilbert Space**: A Hilbert space is a complete vector space equipped with an inner product, which allows for the generalization of concepts such as length and angle.

Optics Letters by

Optics Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research articles and letters on all aspects of optics and photonics. It is known for its rapid publication process, allowing research findings to reach the scientific community quickly. The journal covers a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, novel optical technologies, fundamental studies in light-matter interactions, and advancements in optical materials and devices. It is widely regarded in the field of optics and is published by the Optical Society (OSA).

MNIST database by

Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16

70,000 28x28 grayscale (1 byte per pixel) images of hand-written digits 0-9, i.e. 10 categories. 60k are considered training data, 10k are considered for test data.

This is THE "OG" computer vision dataset.

Playing with it is the de-facto computer vision hello world.

It was on this dataset that Yann LeCun made great progress with the LeNet model. Running LeNet on MNIST has to be the most classic computer vision thing ever. See e.g. activatedgeek/LeNet-5 for a minimal and modern PyTorch educational implementation.

But it is important to note that as of the 2010's, the benchmark had become too easy for many applications. It is perhaps fair to say that the next big dataset revolution of the same importance was with ImageNet.

The dataset could be downloaded from yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ but as of March 2025 it was down and seems to have broken from time to time randomly, so Wayback Machine to the rescue:

wget \
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120828222752/http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz \
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120828182504/http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz \
 https://web.archive.org/web/20240323235739/http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz \
 https://web.archive.org/web/20240328174015/http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz

but doing so is kind of pointless as both files use some crazy single-file custom binary format to store all images and labels. OMG!

OK-ish data explorer: knowyourdata-tfds.withgoogle.com/#tab=STATS&dataset=mnist