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Arrow of time Updated 2025-07-16

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Arsenide Updated 2025-07-16

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Arsenide compound Updated 2025-07-16

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Art Updated 2025-07-16

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Stuff that is beautiful but useless because it does not make food or houses cheaper.

Or from Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts:

Without technology, one cannot survive. Without art, one cannot live.

But that sure enough has a Jesus semi-precursor, and likely many others: man shall not live by bread alone.

There is some art however that lives in the fine intersection between beauty and usefulness:

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A single exponential map is not enough to recover a simple Lie group from its algebra Updated 2025-07-16

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Example at: Lie Groups, Physics, and Geometry by Robert Gilmore (2008) Chapter 7 "EXPonentiation".

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Artificial general intelligence Updated 2025-07-16

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Given enough computational power per dollar, AGI is inevitable, but it is not sure certain ever happen given the end of end of Moore's Law.

Alternatively, it could also be achieved genetically modified biological brains + brain in a vat.

Imagine a brain the size of a building, perfectly engineered to solve certain engineering problems, and giving hints to human operators + taking feedback from cameras and audio attached to the operators.

This likely implies transhumanism, and mind uploading.

Ciro Santilli joined the silicon industry at one point to help increase our computational capacity and reach AGI.

Ciro believes that the easiest route to full AI, if any, could involve Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games.

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Artificial intelligence bibliography Updated 2025-07-16

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Artificial neural network Updated 2025-07-16

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ARTIQ Updated 2025-07-16

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Artist Updated 2025-07-16

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Art trend Updated 2025-07-16

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Art young Ciro Santilli consumed Updated 2025-07-16

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Maybe those are genial. Maybe not. Nostalgia is just too strong to discern. Ciro still goes back to them for rest.

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ASCII Updated 2025-07-16

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ASCII art Updated 2025-07-16

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It should be a crime to automatically generate ASCII art from images.

For some ASCII art in the Bitcoin blockchain see: ASCII art.

Random fun mentions:

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roflcopter | knowyourmeme.com/memes/roflcopter
www.ludd.ltu.se/~vk/pics/ascii/junkyard/misc/who's_who.txt "Who's who in the ascii art world" contains a list of well known artists with their signatures

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top -------*------* |
        |  | *----|-*
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        |  |      |/
bottom ----*------*
        |  |      |
        +--|------|-----> y
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      /    |      |
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3D cube plot ASCII art by Ciro Santilli (2021)

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AsciiDoc Updated 2025-07-16

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ASCII porn Updated 2025-07-16

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ASCII porn is ASCII art depicting pornography.

Collections and overviews:

asciiart.website/index.php?art=people/naked%20ladies "Naked Ladies - Nude Women" category
- if you value medium over content, Ciro found two of the images reproduced in asciiart.website above also reproduced in the Bitcoin blockchain as described at: ASCII art, that should definitely turn you on, horny nerd
www.reddit.com/r/ASCII_porn/ on Reddit boring
www.vice.com/en/article/nepapk/ascii-pr0n-porn-predates-the-internet-but-its-still-everywhere-rule-34 ASCII Porn Predates the Internet But It's Still Everywhere by Vice News (2019)

You just couldn't resist Googling it and clicking this page, could you? You naughty, naughty bearded programmer nerd. Yes, I'm talking to you.

TODO it is quite hard to actually find non-automatically generated ASCII art of people fucking, most of them are just sexy/horny women drawn by bearded nerds, likely and based on sticky physical paper porn magazines from the 80's, good old days.

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   Tank Man                         |
   by Ciro Santilli          00     |
   2021 CC-BY-SA 4.0          \\  +-|-+
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Tank man ASCII art by Ciro Santilli (2021)

This image depicts the Chinese government fucking 1 million Chinese people in the ass during the Tiananmen Square Protests, which was undoubtedly one of the largest gang bangs of the late 20th century: