Original gangster Updated 2025-07-16
Superconducting qubits are bad because it is harder to ensure that they are all the same Updated 2025-07-16
This is unlike atomic systems like trapped ion quantum computers, where each atom is necessarily exactly the same as the other.
Year 4 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's formal education Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli participated in a double degree program, so he obtained have engineering degrees in both:
- 2010 - 2014: École PolytechniqueMaster 2 degree in applied mathematics.
- Ciro Santilli's undergrad studies at the University of São Paulo
Despite studying in great institutions with great teachers, Ciro feels that:
- most of what he knows came from the Internet, man pages, books and his parents
- actual projects matter much more than those pieces of paper called Diplomas. You should not do like Ciro who basically did nothing but school mandated work, but instead grow some balls and focus much more or entirely on your projects
This motivated Ciro to work on OurBigBook.com.
Turing machine that halts if and only if the Goldbach conjecture is false Updated 2025-07-16
Zhuangzi Updated 2025-07-16
- James Legge (1891):
- ctext.org/zhuangzi side by side with Chinese, one chapter per page. Dividies it into three parts:
- Inner Chapters
- Outer Chapters
- Miscellaneous Chapters
- ctext.org/zhuangzi side by side with Chinese, one chapter per page. Dividies it into three parts:
Ciro Santilli's hardware 2019-03 Giant Control Tower 3 floor pump bike pump Updated 2025-07-16
20 pounds. Works on both Schrader and Presta.
Diamond Updated 2025-07-16
OurBigBook.com Feature ideas Updated 2025-07-16
In this section we will gather some more advanced ideas besides the basic features described at how the website works.
Artificial chromosome Updated 2025-07-16
Using de novo DNA synthesis to synthesize entire Chromosomes.
Einstein coefficients Updated 2025-07-16
Graphite Updated 2025-07-16
The layered one.
Info-ZIP Updated 2025-07-16
So dominant that it is usualy called just "zip".
Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings by Adam Curtis (1996) Updated 2025-07-16
Supercomputer controlling a robot Updated 2025-07-16
University of North Carolina Updated 2025-07-16
Yann LeCun Updated 2025-07-16
The most classic thing he did perhaps was creating the LeNet neural network and using it on the MNIST dataset to recognize hand-written digits circ 1998.
Zombie video game Updated 2025-07-16
Upside: it is easier to simulate zombies than it is to simulate intelligent humans and make them look convincing.
Downside:
- if zombies are so dumb, why didn't humans deal with them already? Just build some fucking walls and sleep in isolated rooms in case someone has a heart attack during their sleep! So not as convincing.
- zombies vioalte the law of conservation of energy. What do they eat when humans run out, since they are so dumb? Previously mentioned at: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240895
Amazon Prime Video Updated 2025-07-16
As of 2021, Ciro Santilli feels strongly that Amazon originals are so much sillier compared to Netflix ones in average.
Of course, everything pales in comparison to The Criterion Collection.
Atomicity (database systems) Updated 2025-07-16
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.
