Fujitsu Updated 2025-07-16
The japanese name literally means:
- 富士 fushi, from Mount Fuji, which itself has unknown origin
- 通 tong: telecommunications
Quantum Mechanics for Engineers by Leon van Dommelen (2011) Updated 2025-07-16
Looks very impressive! Last update marked 2011 as of 2020.
Goes up to "A.15 quantum field theory in a Nanoshell", Ciro have to review it to see if there's anything worthwhile in that section.
Personal page says he retired as of 2020: www.eng.fsu.edu/~dommelen/ But hopefully he has more time for these notes!
And he appears to have his own lightweight markup language that transpiles to LaTeX called l2h: www.eng.fsu.edu/~dommelen/l2h/
AlphaZero Updated 2025-07-16
Generalization of AlphaGo Zero that plays Go, chess and shogi.
- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aar6404 A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play by Silver et al. (2018), published without source code
- www.quora.com/Is-there-an-Open-Source-version-of-AlphaZero-specifically-the-generic-game-learning-tool-distinct-from-AlphaGo
www.quora.com/Which-chess-engine-would-be-stronger-Alpha-Zero-or-Stockfish-12/answer/Felix-Zaslavskiy explains that it beat Stockfish 8. But then Stockfish was developed further and would start to beat it. We know this because although AlphaZero was closed source, they released the trained artificial neural network, so it was possible to replay AlphaZero at its particular stage of training.
Alternating multilinear map Updated 2025-07-16
Galaxy in the Local Group Updated 2025-07-16
A quote by Ciro's Teacher R.:
Sometimes, even if our end goals are too far from reality, the side effects of trying to reach them can have meaningful impact.
If the goals are not ambitious enough, you risk not even having useful side effects so show in the end!
By doing the prerequisites of the impossible goal you desire, maybe the next generation will be able to achieve it.
This is basically why Ciro Santilli has contributed to Stack Overflow, which has happened while was doing his overly ambitious projects and notice that all kinds of basic pre-requisites were not well explained anywhere.
This is especially effective when you use backward design, because then you will go "down the dependency graph of prerequisites" and smoothen out any particularly inefficient points that you come across.
There are of course countless examples of such events:
- youtu.be/qrDZhAxpKrQ?t=174 Blitzscaling 11: Patrick Collison on Hiring at Stripe and the Role of a Product-Focused CEO by Greylock (2015)
The danger of this approach is of course spending too much time on stuff that will not be done enough times to be worth it, as highlighted by several xkcds:
xkcd 1319: Automation
. Source. The standard model and general relativity are incompatible Updated 2025-07-16
TODO arguments, proofs
xsv Updated 2025-07-16
Is this the one?
Ciro Santilli's open source contributions Merged by Ciro Updated 2025-07-16
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain HHTT Updated 2025-07-16
The Horrible Horrendous Terrible Tremendous Mining Pool inscribed a few cute Coinbase messages during their operation in 2012-2013.
Many of their messages also mention
SockThing, which was part of their mining infrastructure:Starting from their very first ASCII transaction on block 197602 (2012-09-07), there is what seems to be a poem spread across several transactions. Some of the lines are repeated, presumably because they didn't update the current line to a new line and so mined the same thing multiple times:The sentences are not very coherent together, perhaps this is because lines were chosen by different miners one at a time.
I am a pretty princess
covered in mud and blood
water with stuff in it
like everything else that wiggles or jiggles
screaming might not be your waY
see no reason to operate otherwise since
came into the world naked, wet and screaming
but silence will never be mine
until I am dead
but the smell will also give that away
gather all my things
load them in a big boat
airlift that to Kansas
and light it on fire
drop it from 7,000 feet
then railgun my corpse straight down
Developmental neurobiology Updated 2025-07-16
Gene expression profiling Updated 2025-07-16
Generator of a Lie algebra Updated 2025-07-16
Germline Updated 2025-07-16
It is quite mind blowing when you think about it, that the huge majority of your body's cells is essentially just there to support a tiny ammount of germline, which are the only cells that can actually pass on! It is fun to imagine the cell type tree for this, with a huge branching of somatic cells, and only a few germline going forward.
Huygens-Fresnel principle Updated 2025-07-16
Landau quantization Updated 2025-07-16
A Mathematician's Apology Updated 2025-07-16
With major mathematicians holding ideas such as:it is not surprise that the state of STEM education is so shit as of 2020, especially at the the missing link between basic and advanced! This also implies that the number of people that can appreciate any advanced mathematics research is tiny, and consequently so is the funding.
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [...] It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.
Deep learning framework Updated 2025-07-16
Post-order depth-first search Updated 2025-07-16
Has the property of visiting all descendants before the parent.
Pre-order depth-first search Updated 2025-07-16
Like breadth-first search, this also has the property of visiting parents before any children.
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