Publishes through the Fermilab YouTube channel under the playlist "Fermilab - Videos by Don Lincoln"

Some insights, but too much on the popular science side of things.

Sometimes Ciro Santilli regrets not having done a PhD. But this section makes him feel better about himself. To be fair, part of the merit is on him, part of the reason he didn't move on was the strong odour of bullshit oozing down to Masters level. A good PhH might have opened interesting job opportunities however, given that you don't really learn anything useful before that point in your education.

twitter.com/togelius/status/1584611702691483648:

60,000 32x32 color images in 10 different classes: airplanes, cars, birds, cats, deer, dogs, frogs, horses, ships, and trucks.

TODO release date.

This dataset can be thought of as an intermediate between the simplicity of MNIST, and a more full blown ImageNet.

Ciro Santilli is very fond of this result: the beauty of mathematics.

How can so much complexity come out from so few rules?

How can the proof be so long (thousands of papers)?? Surprise!!

And to top if all off, the awesomely named monster group could have a relationship with string theory via the monstrous moonshine?

all science is either physics or stamp collecting comes to mind.

The classification contains:

"Game" is a bit of a stretch as there are no player choices at all.

A more precise word would be simulation.

More precise, this "game" is exactly an absorbing Markov chain.

Since Snakes and Ladders is nothing but a Absorbing Markov chain, the results are exactly the same as for that general problem.

www.jstor.org/stable/3619261: How Long Is a Game of Snakes and Ladders? by Althoen, King and Schilling (1993), paywalled.

His combination of politically incorrect dirt talk with amazing quirky decks captures Ciro's imagination.

Anonymous no face-reveal.

The videos are heavily edited with all pauses cut out, which makes them very quick to watch and saves viewer time.

Modern focused, with some occasional newer formats mixed in.

When Wizards publishes several useless sets in a row without a single modern playable card, he's just forced into Standard.

When a characteristic is basal, it basically means the opposite of it being polyphyletic.

E.g. monotremes laying eggs did not evolve separately after function loss, it comes directly from reptiles.

Open source MtG engine implementation written in Java.

Seems to have an option to download art from internet as well.

Ciro Santilli wonders how legal it is. They very explicitly do not mention the words Magic: The Gathering anywhere.

Their UI does a good job at being self explanatory. Space is the shortcut to skip phases.

No online play.

TODO it appears to parse card functionality out of the human readable text! That's genius, as it helps automatically get new cards working, and squirt around legal issues.

Other people with similar philosophies:

Measured particle speeds with a rotation barrel! OMG, pre electromagnetism equipment?

Ciro Santilli used to play video games when he was young. But after he reached 18 he got bored of them.

The problem is that no matter how you look at, the how to become famous in the real world game is just always more interesting and fulfilling.

Therefore adult Ciro enjoys only the following types of video game content in video form, so that other people waste their lives playing the games while you only see the highlights:

The aspect Ciro enjoys about non-PvP games is atmosphere. Not as conveyed by useless story telling, but as conveyed by music and graphics, and the context deep idea. Legend of Zelda and Metroid come to mind.

And too many games commit the sins of dependency of dexterity, no save states, how do I skip this boring part, or jump straight to the beautiful one?

Another important point is; the perfect video game is an infinitely hard one.

It also doesn't help if you are already typing on a computer all day long on your job. Hands get tired. Eyes have an infinite capacity to consume useless YouTube videos however. Medically proved.

As a result, Ciro just watches videos about video games. Notably games he played when he was a teenager and already understand the rules for.

And things got even worse as after Ciro Santilli's Open Source Enlightenment, and he started to feel bad about playing any game that is not open source.

This is a list of video games that are good to watch other people playing, even if you don't play yourself. And often they are better to watch than to play as you don't have to waste your time as much!