Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Oh yeah, that felt good. A few months before he died.

Appears to have just one, other bacteria can have more. TODO position in NCBI. Sequence determined in 1979: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC382992

E. Coli K-12 MG1655 origin of replication.

Introductory analysis of a simple example of the executable and Linkable Format.

Extracted from this Stack Overflow answer.

Interestingly, the very first programming language with an actual implementation was interpreted: Short Code in 1950.

This is not surprising, as interpreters are easier to write than compilers.

And just like modern scripting languages, it reduced execution speed by about 50x.

Their system is quite good actually. Not as good as a GitHub repo with all the tests made explicit. But still pretty good.

Original 1931 experiment by Raman and Bhagavantam: dspace.rri.res.in/bitstream/2289/2123/1/1931%20IJP%20V6%20p353.pdf

Since Ciro Santilli is Brazilian, this is understandably a common conversation opener.

And rightly so, since soccer in particular is truly ridiculously popular in Brazil, where "what is your local soccer team?" is just as valid a conversation starter as "Which city are you from?".

So here goes Ciro's 2020 cynic answer:

The ironic reason is simple: maybe is Brazil loses more on this useless art, then maybe people will get tired of it, and instead invest on more useful and beautiful arts.

Notably, what Ciro really wants people to root for are:

Don't get Ciro wrong.

Playing sports yourself is amazing.

Observing professionals who do it amazingly can be beautiful.

But why the F do you have to root for a team unless your wife or children are playing in it (and even then..., how will that help?)?

What will you get from that?

Even if it is your national team, why does it matter if they win or lose?

Hooliganism just takes that uselessness to a hole new level.

Now some confessions.

A five year old Ciro will never forget when the feeling of Brazil won the 1994 World Cup on the penalties and everyone went mad that evening.

A nine year old Ciro stopped watching the 1998 World Cup Final of Brazil vs France half way during the 3-0 massacre and went to his front garden to kick his soccer ball on the metallic fence gate which represented a goal.

After that, Ciro went through puberty he guesses, and noticed that the natural sciences are just cooler than this soccer watching bullshit.

As mentioned on the introduction, the main objective of the course is to try predict qualitative properties of materials, notably the existence of certain phase transitions, starting from first principle toy models.

Key phenomena covered include:

Everyone is beginner when the field is new, and there is value in tutorials written by beginners.

For example, Ciro Santilli felt it shocking how direct and satisfying Richard Feynman's scientific vulgarization of quantum electrodynamics were, e.g. at: Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979), and that if he had just assumed minimal knowledge of mathematics, he was about to give a full satisfactory picture in just a few hours.

Other supporters of this:

It is said, that once upon a time, programmers used CSV and collaborated on SourceForge, and that everyone was happy.

These days, are however, long gone in the mists of time as of 2020, and beyond Ciro Santilli's programming birth.

Except for hardware developers of course. The are still happily using Perforce and Tcl, and shall never lose their innocence. Blessed be their souls. Amen.