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Mathematics and Philosophy masters course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16

Public page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/mathematics-and-philosophy

Handbooks: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/undergraduate-courses/teaching-and-learning/handbooks-synopses (archive)

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Mathematics and Statistics course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16

Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/mathematics-and-statistics

Handbooks: www.stats.ox.ac.uk/bammath-mathematics-and-statistics-student-resources (archive)

2023: www.stats.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-10/MShandbook2023-24.pdf (archive)

Mathematics and Statistics at Oxford University by University of Oxford (2017)

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Ciro Santilli's hardware / Backpacks Updated 2025-07-16

2024-04: got two backpacks "for free" with the Lenovo reward points from buying the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen4 amd, not bad, that was already cheap and now I got some extra swag:

Lenovo Select Targus 16" Sport Backpack: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/cases-and-bags/backpacks/gx41l44751
Lenovo Select Targus 16" Mobile Elite Backpack: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/cases-and-bags/backpacks/gx41l44752. Measured weight: 1070 g

The sport backpack has a fatal flaw: no strap to hold laptop in place, wo it just tumbles back and forth as you walk.

Neither of them have very good padding below the laptop, but at least the Elite one has a slightly elevated inner bag which woudl likely help a lot in case of a drop.

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ASCII typeface Updated 2025-07-16

Tis term was invented by Ciro Santilli, it refers to ASCII art of text, essentially creating a typeface. in that medium..

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Julia Vie Updated 2025-07-16

Ross Ulbricht told her about Silk Road, but then later said he had sold the website to someone else, without really doing that.

LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-vie-35296959/
Twitter profile: twitter.com/destenyrangel

As of 2023, she's apparently a photographer with a porny focus (boudoir photography).

Figure 1.
Julia Vie and Ross Ulbricht
. Source.

Some sources:

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Argos Translate Updated 2025-07-16

OpenNMT CLI front-end.

Hello world: askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal/1309774#1309774

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Ciro Santilli's hardware / Monitors Updated 2025-07-16

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Ciro Santilli's hardware / P14s cannot dual monitor on Wayland Updated 2025-07-16

Asked:

On Ubuntu 23.10, under Settings > Displays, Mirror works, but "Join" does not allow to Apply with message:

Changes Cannot be Applied. This could be due to hardware limitations.

Works on X Window System, it is a Wayland bug.

Related:

for 3rd monitor

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Jeremy Sturdivant Updated 2025-07-16

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos mentions:

According to jercos the transaction was finalized over IRC chats. Jercos was 18 at the time of the transaction.

www.bitcoinwhoswho.com/jercosinterview is the source. Persumably the contact was initiated via the private messaging feature of the Bitcoin Forum.

Figure 1.
Jeremy Sturdivant
. Source.

Bibliography:
en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos

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Ciro Santilli's hardware / WD10EADS-42P6B0 Updated 2025-07-16

~1TB.

Has a separate power cord, not USB powered. Unbelievable. Edit: actually high ends are still like that as of 2023, e.g. at that time, a the max non-cabled was 5 TB, but top of line was 20 TB.

Disk label: wd1t.

Ubuntu 20.04 gnome-disks benchmark, ext4 partition: 37MB/s.

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Jena SPARQL hello world Updated 2025-07-16

They have a tutorial at: jena.apache.org/tutorials/sparql.html

Once you've done the Apache Jena CLI tools setup we can query all users with Full Name (FN) "John Smith" directly fom the rdf/vcard.ttl Turtle RDF file with the rdf/vcard.rq SPARQL query:

sparql --data=rdf/vcard.ttl --query=rdf/vcard.rq

and that outputs:

---------------------------------
| x                             |
=================================
| <http://somewhere/JohnSmith/> |
---------------------------------

Bibliography:

stackoverflow.com/questions/41959550/cli-tool-ala-csvsql-for-sparql-and-ttl-n3-files-hello-world-example-for

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Ciro's nc HTTP test server Updated 2025-07-16

As per stackoverflow.com/a/52351480/895245 our standard test setup is:

while true; do
  resp=$"$(date): hello\n"
  len="$(printf '%s' "$resp" | wc -c)"
  printf "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $len\r\n\r\n${resp}\n" | nc -Nl 8000
done

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James Howells Updated 2025-07-16

www.linkedin.com/in/howelzy/
Might know a thing or two about landfills.
Epic.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lost-bitcoin-crypto-james-howells-b2406517.html
The bizarre saga started in 2013 when Mr Howells, put the hardware from an old laptop that contained 8,000 bitcoins, the world’s leading cryptocurrency, in a black bag in his hallway.
"I was doing a clear-out in my office and put a lot of items into a bag which I then placed at the front door of my house," he said. "I woke up the next morning and my ex-partner had already taken the bags to the landfill site; she thought she was doing me a favour, it wasn’t her fault."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67297013

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apport (software) Updated 2025-07-16

Source code: github.com/canonical/apport

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Ripples by ripples Updated 2025-07-16

A Baidu Baike page: baike.baidu.hk/item/層層水瀾/12386243 mentions that the score was published in 1970 by Tao Yimo (陶一陌) in a eponymous score book.

Ripples by ripples performed by Wu Li on the guzheng

. Source. Peformer's Chinese name: 吳莉.

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Computer data storage hardware Updated 2025-07-16

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Ciro Santilli's hardware / P14s benchmark Updated 2025-12-25

glmark2 -b build:duration=3:model=horse

~22K

Ubuntu 24.10: 13 kFPS. Hmm not sure why so much lower than before.

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Computer Science and Philosophy course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16

Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science-and-philosophy

A mixed cross department course with the philosophy department. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MCompSciPhil. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".

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Computer science and philosophy masters course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16

Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science-and-philosophy

Corresponding undergrad: Computer Science and Philosophy course of the University of Oxford.

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Application layer Updated 2025-07-16

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