Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Good selection: Acústico MTV - Gilberto Gil (1994).

Runner ups:

There's a beauty in the portability of browser games.

The fact that the browser is not the main gaming platform as of 2020 shows how crappy web tech is. There is no fundamental reason why it shouldn't be so.

All companies with investors are evil, make no mistake.

They may have nice looking save the world charity campaigns, but once you get even close to affecting their revenue stream, the axe falls. The charity is only a publicity stunt to reduce wages.

Some level of government intervention is needed to control investor's greed.

It is just a question of business model: some business models are eviler than others. Making people pay for operating systems being possible the most evil of all.

One thing must be said however. You can learn a lot by working in a good company, because it ends up putting you in contact with practical real problems that you wouldn't otherwise see by just doing your own random low-tech startup. This is especially valuable if said company is also enlightened enough to use and contribute back to open source software, thus improving the world and paying back the moral debt of using other people's work for free.

Another important point to consider is who in the company is evil. In a sane tech company, the lowly engineers are going to be non-evil. And then the more you go up the management chain, the more aligned you have to be with investors, and thus the more and more evil you get. HR is just evil from the bottom though, it's just the nature of their job.

Likely a good replacement for Python. If the ecosystem gets there, Ciro Santilli would gladly use it more.

uk.vwr.com/store/product/8306728/microcentrifuges-ventilated-refrigerated-micro-star-17-17r (archive).

You have to know the language to appreciate them.

The 60's and 70's were the days, those great proxy wars and CIA dictatorships allowed hippies to make awesome freedom music without too imminent a fear of death.

Songs making fun of things or that are pure Brazil nostalgia are also accepted. No love songs, ever. Except some by Caetano, but that's it!

English:

French:

In order to make websites efficient and portable, a lot of transpilation is needed.

These are basically technically minded people that Ciro Santilli feels have similar interests/psychology to him, and who write too much for their own good:

Maybe one day these will also be legendary, who knows:

Another category Ciro admires are the "computational physics visualization" people, these people will go to Heaven:

Related:

Institution led:

Other mentions:

www.marshallscientific.com/MJ-Research-PTC-200-Thermal-Cycler-p/mj-200.htm (archive).

Big goals:

Just art:

Take the group of all Translation in ${\mathbb{R}}^1$.

Let's see how the generator of this group is the derivative operator:

The way to think about this is:

So let's take the exponential map:and we notice that this is exactly the Taylor series of $f(x)$ around the identity element of the translation group, which is 0! Therefore, if $f(x)$ behaves nicely enough, within some radius of convergence around the origin we have for finite $x_0$:

This example shows clearly how the exponential map applied to a (differential) operator can generate finite (non-infinitesimal) Translation!

It is cool how even for such a "simple looking" problem, we were still unable to prove optimality as of 2020!