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Computer music file format Updated 2025-07-16
Looking for formats that:
- are human readable plaintext files
- can be converted/played as MIDI
- can be converted to sheet music PDFs
- supports basic guitar effects (bends and slides)
EdX Updated 2025-07-16
Harvard University + MIT combo.
As of 2022:Fuck that.
Also, they have an ICP.
November 2023 course search:
- Condensed matter: 4 hits, so not too bad
- quantum field theory: no hits
Model of quantum computing Updated 2025-07-16
Steve Jobs Updated 2025-07-16
Co-founder of Apple.
Is Jobs evil? Is he interesting? Undoubtedly.
www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&characters=Steve%20Jobs has some good anecdotes about him.
Ciro Santilli is especially fond of: Jobs and Wozniak's blue box.
Good quotes:
- "Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money." quote at: Section "Don't be a pussy" and the related Jobs and Wozniak's blue box attitude
- "Steve Jobs Insult Response" on backward design
- Steve Jobs Pixar office design philosophy: great ideas happen from chance meetings on corridors, not in board rooms: officesnapshots.com/2012/07/16/pixar-headquarters-and-the-legacy-of-steve-jobs/
- Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
- Here's to the crazy ones: Ciro would like to believe that this is mostly written by Jobs, but apparently it was just written by an advertisement agency. Good job though.
You must watch this: Video "Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs by Epic Rap Battles of History (2012)".
Evil deeds:
- not recognizing own daughter for many years??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs
- lying to Steve Wozniak about the 5000 dollar Atari bonus: web.archive.org/web/20110612071502/http://www.woz.org/letters/general/91.html
- not giving stock to early garage employees: www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-gave-early-apple-employees-10-million-in-stock-2014-9 OK, not a legal obligation. But... love?
Steven H. Simon Updated 2025-07-16
Central dogma of molecular biology Updated 2025-07-16
If a product of a big company has a catchy name it came from an acquisition Updated 2025-07-16
Open source video game asset Updated 2025-07-16
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio Updated 2025-07-16
Strategy game Updated 2025-07-16
Algebra Updated 2025-07-16
Not to be confused with algebra over a field, which is a particular algebraic structure studied within algebra.
Control system Updated 2025-07-16
Game theory Updated 2025-07-16
As mentioned at Human Compatible by Stuart J. Russell (2019), game theory can be seen as the part of artificial intelligence that deas with scenarios where multiple intelligent agents are involved.
Mathematics bibliography Updated 2025-07-16
Power engineering Updated 2025-07-16
Applications of power, we have to remember it is there to notice how awesome it is!
- lightning
- motors
- sending nad receiving communication signals
- computers, which in turn can do computations and improved communication
Probability Updated 2025-07-16
The beauty of mathematics Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli intends to move his beauty list here little by little: github.com/cirosantilli/mathematics/blob/master/beauty.md
The most beautiful things in mathematics are results that are:
- simple to state but hard to prove:
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- number of unknown rationality, e.g. is rational?
- transcendental number conjectures, e.g. is transcendental?
- basically any conjecture involving prime numbers:
- many combinatorial game questions, e.g.:
- surprising results: we had intuitive reasons to believe something as possible or not, but a theorem shatters that conviction and brings us on our knees, sometimes via pathological counter-examples. General surprise themes include:Lists:
- classification of potentially infinite sets like: compact manifolds, etc.
- problems that are more complicated in low dimensions than high like:
- generalized Poincaré conjectures. It is also fun to see how in many cases complexity peaks out at 4 dimensions.
- classification of regular polytopes
- unpredictable magic constants:
- why is the lowest dimension for an exotic sphere 7?
- why is 4 the largest degree of an equation with explicit solution? Abel-Ruffini theorem
- undecidable problems, especially simple to state ones:
- mortal matrix problem
- sharp frontiers between solvable and unsolvable are also cool:
- attempts at determining specific values of the Busy beaver function for Turing machines with a given number of states and symbols
- related to Diophantine equations:
- applications: make life easier and/or modeling some phenomena well, e.g. in physics. See also: explain how to make money with the lesson
Good lists of such problems Lists of mathematical problems.
Whenever Ciro Santilli learns a bit of mathematics, he always wonders to himself:Unfortunately, due to how man books are written, it is not really possible to reach insight without first doing a bit of memorization. The better the book, the more insight is spread out, and less you have to learn before reaching each insight.
Am I achieving insight, or am I just memorizing definitions?
Voltage transformer Updated 2025-07-16
Waring-Goldbach problem Updated 2025-07-16
It is exactly what you'd expect from the name, Waring was watching Netflix with Goldbach, when they suddenly came up with this.
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