Average length of a Snakes and Ladders game Updated 2025-07-16
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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.
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No-go theorem Updated 2025-07-16
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Political donation Updated 2025-07-16
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Ban political donations Updated 2025-07-16
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Mono and paraphyly Updated 2025-07-16
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Crown group Updated 2025-07-16
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Kind of the opposite of a basal group.
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Second brain Updated 2025-07-16
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In the 2020's, this refers to writing down everything you know, usually in some graph structured way.
This is somewhat the centerpiece of Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers: dumping your brain into text form, which he has been doing through Ciro Santilli's website.
This is also the closest one can get to immortality pre full blown transhumanism.
Ciro's still looking for the restore this plaintext backup on a new body though.
It is a good question, how much of your knowledge you would be able to give to others with text and images. It is likely almost all of it, except for coordination/signal processing tasks.
His passion for braindumping like this is a big motivation behind Ciro Santilli's OurBigBook.com work.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Updated 2025-07-16
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Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16
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List of Nobel Prizes in Economics Updated 2025-07-16
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PBS Updated 2025-07-16
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Machine learning bibliography Updated 2025-07-16
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Film about genius Updated 2025-07-16
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Brazilian real Updated 2025-07-16
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Blockchain Updated 2025-07-16
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Computer network software Updated 2025-07-16
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Computer YouTube channel Updated 2025-07-16
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stress-ng Updated 2025-07-16
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The interface is a bit annoying, but the tool is really cool.
100 cycles of matrixprod:
stress-ng -c1 --cpu-ops 100 --cpu-method matrixprod
man stress-ng gives the list of possible --cpu-method. It documents matrixprod as:
matrix product of two 128 × 128 matrices of double floats. Testing on 64 bit x86 hardware shows that this is provides a good mix of memory, cache and floating point operations and is probably the best CPU method to use to make a CPU run hot.
If you don't specify the --cpu-method it apparently loops through every method one by one.
Limit time to 1s instead of limiting cycles:
stress-ng -c1 -t1 --cpu-method matrixprod
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The place for beauty in companies Updated 2025-07-16
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Many/most companies are unable to give any beauty to its employees.
Hiring is simply a process of "let's get this money making project working ASAP", bring people in, without considering Brooks's law.
And then when that happens, companies put people in extremely narrow knowledge areas, making them unable to see or participate in the bigger picture of things, unless they spend 10 years there and reach architect status.
This is perhaps particularly painful for high flying birds like Ciro Santilli.
Companies need a higher top to down force that attempts to actually teach the business and tech to every employee to counter the low level manager get things done now pressure.
Companies that are able to do that, will have many more employees with a sense of purpose, and with the ability to innovate. Those companies will win.
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Software-based artificial life Updated 2025-07-16
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Some of the software-based artificial life simulators can be used as AI training game.
Ciro Santilli just always feels that what can be classified as "artificial life" simulators have too much focus on beating more continuous population mechanics, and lack the discrete elements which he feels could be important to AGI: Section "The missing link between continuous and discrete AI".
There is great interest in this direction of research however quite clearly.
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