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A "miner message" is an inscription message left by a miner on a blockchain.

This is opposed to messages that may be left by non miners during transactions.

Miner messages are therefore of course much harder to control on established blockchains, as they basically require consensus in a mining pool to set. Most of them are just ads for the mining pool itself.

As of 2025, you can check if someone with a given name was at polytechnique and at which year at: programmes.polytechnique.edu/en/about/ecole-polytechnique/list-of-graduates

Wikipedia defines Mind uploading as a synonym for whole brain emulation. This sounds really weird, as "mind uploading" suggests much more simply brain dumping, or perhaps reuploading a brain dump to a brain.

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (2014) section "Whole brain emulation" provides a reasonable setup: post mortem, take a brain, freeze it, then cut it into fine slices with a Microtome, and then inspect slices with an electron microscope after some kind of staining to determine all the synapses.

Likely implies AGI.

The musical study of software engineering.

Ciro Santilli is obsessed by those in order to learn any new concept, not just for bug reporting.

This includes to learn more theoretical subjects like physics and mathematics.

Jeff has spoken a lot in public about Amazon, perhaps even more than other comparable founders, see e.g. Section "History of Amazon". Kudos for that.

The leading open source cross architecture and KVM emulator of the 2010's.

Great way to understand how operating systems work, which Ciro Santilli used extensively in his Linux Kernel Module Cheat.

Ciro Santilli has some good related articles listed under: Section "The best articles by Ciro Santilli".