History of Brazil Updated +Created
Limtless (2011) Updated +Created
That makes Ciro Santilli most mad about this film is the fact that the dude was passionate about writing, and when he became a genius, rather than write the best novels ever written, he decided instead to play the stock market instead. This paints an accurate picture of 2020's society, where finance jobs make infinitely more money than other real engineering jobs, and end up attracting much of the talent.
Another enraging thing is how his girlfriend starts liking him again once he is a genius, and instead of telling her to fuck off, he stays with her.
The other really bad thing is the ending. He fixed the drug by himself? He scared off De Niro just like that?
Politics of Brazil Updated +Created
Ciro's Edict #5 / Next steps Updated +Created
  • upload all of cirosantilli.com to ourbigbook.com. I will do this by implementing an import from filesystem functionality based on the OurBigBook CLI. This will also require implementing slit headeres on the server to work well, I'll need to create one Article for every header on render.
  • get \x and \Include working on the live web preview editor. This will require creating a new simple API, currently the editor jus shows broken references, but final render works because it goes through the database backend
  • implement email verification signup. Finally! Maybe add some notifications too, e.g. on new comments or likes.
States of Brazil Updated +Created
Phenylalanine Updated +Created
How many "la"s does a name need to have?
Sequelize example Updated +Created
To run examples on a specific database:
All examples can be tested on all databases with:
cd sequelize
./test
Overview of the examples:
Social inequality Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli is extremely passionate about this issue, partly due to Ciro Santilli's self perceived compassionate personality.
Ciro Santilli's main approaches to reduce it:
We have to be careful not to make everyone poorer when trying to reduce inequality.
But as things stand as of 2020, increasing taxes on the very richest, and notably wealth tax, and investing it in free gifted education, seems like a safe bet to achieve any meaningful level of equal opportunity and meritocracy.
Ciro's Edict #7 / --format-source Updated +Created
Added ourbigbook --format-source automatic code formatting. I implemented it for the following reasons:
  • I want to do certain automatic modifications to source code on web, e.g.:
    • allow users to select the parent article of a new article on the web UI, but that is currently doable only with \Include macros
    • allow users to edit the source only for a specific header
  • later on, much later, this will allow WYSIWYG export to plaintext
This also ended up having one unexpected benefit: whenever a new feature is added that deprecates an old feature, by converting the large corpus from github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io to the new feature I can test the new preferred feature very well.
For example, converting \x[blue cat] en masse to the new insane syntax <blue cat> found several bugs with the new insane syntax.
This seemed somewhat easy at first, so I started it as a way of procrastinating more urgent Web features (web scares me, you know), but it ended being insanely hard to implement, because there are many edge cases. Also, most bugs are not acceptable, as they would corrupt your precious source code and potentially output.
But well, it is done!
2022 Brazilian general election Updated +Created
Five votes:
  • Deputado federal: total elected 513[ref]
  • Deputado estadual
  • Senador: total elected: 81[ref], [ref]
  • Governador: total elected: 1 per state
  • Presidente: 13 Lula. Total elected: 1
All but president are per state. Official list seems to be e.g. for Sao Paulo: divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/#/estados/2022/2040602022/SP/candidatos
Ciro Santilli's hardware / Toshiba MK1059GSM Updated +Created
~1TB.
Internal hard drive likely removed from some old computer I lost track of, kept in a crappy case, incredible stuff.
Ubuntu 20.04 gnome-disks benchmark, NTFS partition: 40MB/s.
Eigendecomposition of a matrix Updated +Created
Every invertible matrix can be written as:
where:
Note therefore that this decomposition is unique up to swapping the order of eigenvectors. We could fix a canonical form by sorting eigenvectors from smallest to largest in the case of a real number.
Intuitively, Note that this is just the change of basis formula, and so:
Gavin Andresen Updated +Created
Ciro's Edict #7 / Issue tracker Updated +Created
Every article now has a (very basic) GitHub-like issue tracker. Comments now go under issues, and issues go under articles. Issues themselves are very similar to articles, with a title and a body.
This was part of 1.0, but not the first priority, but I did it now anyways because I'm trying to do all the database changes ASAP as I'm not in the mood to write database migrations.
Here's an example:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/OurBigBook_issue_list_on_article_page.png
Culture of Brazil Updated +Created
Schwinger effect Updated +Created

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