Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Course actually means "degree", not just one specific "course":

The course outline is given in a "handbook", a one or more PDF files that contain what people will learn and other practicalities. There is a full list of handbooks at: www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/undergraduate/handbooks, but many of them are closed. The system is so closed that even the fucking course list is closed, e.g. all links at: www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/students/undergraduates are closed. Insane.

COVID happens in two stages:

This distinction is one of the reasons why separating the virus name (SARS-CoV-2) from the disease makes sense: the disease is much broader than the viral infection.

Quick overview at stackoverflow.com/questions/1780599/what-is-the-meaning-of-posix/31865755#31865755

Exmples under c/posix:

It gets the job done, but cannot make a large codebase DRY without insanity.

As of 2020, C is like Latin, and we are in the Middle Ages, where it has become a lingua franca.

It is interesting to note how late C appeared: 1972, compared e.g. to Fortran which is from 1957. This is basically because C was a "systems programming language", i.e. with focus on pointer manipulation, and because early computers were so weak, there was no operating system or many software layers in the early days. Fortran however was a numerical language, and it ran directly on bare metal, an application that existed before systems programming.

Examples under c.

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.