Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

You just have to spend a few minutes with students until they complain about the courses or teachers. And you just have to spend a few hours with teachers until they complain about the students or broader system.

University is broken, and everyone knows it. The only question now is finding a viable, "political cash flow positive" path, into something better.

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Lecture videos: podcast.ucsd.edu/ Mostly paywalled, but a few not.

They actually have two The Oxford Student and Cherwell. As brilliantly highlighted in this first of April piece:Related:

Ciro Santilli studied there for a few years starting in 2007.

In retrospect, doing electrical engineering (and likey the other engineering degrees) felt like taking a trip to the 60s in the United States, due to both the subject matter, and how old the concrete buildings were!

This does not need to be a bad thing. It is in that era (and earlier) that much of the exciting foundations of the field were set, and there is great value in there is value in tutorials written by early pioneers of the field. Not that they were amazing at excting history lessons as they should be. But the course outline suggested that intent.

But that point of view must also be accompanied by the excitement of the great ongoing advances of technology (and impact they had in the past). And on that, they failed.

One day, one day, we will fix that.

This chick is hardcore.

One major advantage: eukaryotes can do phagocytosis due to their cytoskeleton.

Wikipedia mentions that it is completely analogous to Planck's law.

Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (1982) page 22 mentions that when Einstein saw this in 1915, he was so excited he couldn't work for three days.

The school that believes only in the Pali Canon, i.e. the best school.

Subcase of symmetric multilinear map:

Requires the two inputs $x$ and $y$ to be in the same vector space of course.

The most important example is the dot product, which is also a positive definite symmetric bilinear form.

As of 2020s and much earlier, Ciro Santilli believes that undergrad studies were fundamentally broken (considering the Information Age which completely changed what would be possible) because university had only two goals, with the exception of a few enlightened professors:As a result, most students, who would not go on to do a PhD essentially do a simple trade: all their time, and possibly some money, in exchange for imbuing themselves with the incredible name of a respected institution so they can get better jobs later on.

Beauty, deep understanding, and learning awesome things comes basically as a second thought.

It is interesting to see how your own ideas shift with time, and Ciro Santilli doesn't think the following are very important anymore, so he was lazy to migrate them.

When he did the original website Ciro was in a "I must show off my skills to get a job mindset", but then after he landed a few jobs he moved to a "CV websites are useless, just do amazing projects and showcase them on your website to help them succeed" mindset.