Snakes and Ladders Updated 2025-07-16
"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.
The art of programming Updated 2025-07-16
Just art:
  • useless mathy stuff
  • incredibly nifty little tools that are just so satisfying to use it is mind blowing:
  • media related stuff
Rotrics Updated 2025-07-16
Looks cool. That's what 1k USD gets you.
Video 1.
Rotrics DexArm is available NOW! by Rotrics (2020)
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Video 2.
Computer Vision Kit for DexArm by Rotrics (2020)
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Parenteral nutrition Updated 2025-07-16
For some reason, this is one of the things that makes Ciro Santilli want to puke the most. More than surgery or blood.
Memento mori Updated 2026-08-21
Figure 1.
Braque Family Triptych
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Figure 2.
"Vanitas" by Philippe de Champaigne (c. 1671)
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If the choice of what to learn depend on a years long dependency graph of other obligations, which currently are the increasingly interlinked:
you end up without much choice at all.
The lock-in periods must be much more fluid and shorter term than those, otherwise it makes the almost inevitable pivots to success impossible.
This is something that Ciro Santilli has heard from several people at the end of their undergrad/PhD degrees. Some online mentions:
When I realized the biggest reason to continue my pdh was to be dr helps, that's when decided I should probably leave.

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