Video game genre Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's favorites are:He used to also play some first-person shooters as they can be fun to empty your brain.
Software with bad user interface Updated 2025-07-16
It is hard to pinpoint why, but the following useful software just feel bad for some reason:
Skills Updated 2025-07-16
Non-technical skills were moved to: Ciro Santilli's skills.
This has not been updated since 2016 after Ciro got a job, because it is too hard to put a number on any skill.
TV Tropes Updated 2025-07-16
Classifies clichés in storytelling.
Every page is highly intelligent and interlinked to other pages.
It is incredible.
List of tropes Updated 2025-07-16
Most of them use titles from TV Tropes.
Bicycle Updated 2025-07-16
Balloon Updated 2025-07-16
Vehicle Updated 2025-07-16
Train Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
The failure of the California's high-speed by Vox (2022)
Source.
Basically:
  • too much local power
  • republican/democrat partition means federal projects start in one government, get killed on next
One is reminded of the Superconducting Super Collider on the federal level issues.
youtu.be/rcjr4jbGuJg?t=457 though mentions that the Palmdale detour was mainly to avoid some hills.
Covering space Updated 2025-07-16
Basically it is a larger space such that there exists a surjection from the large space onto the smaller space, while still being compatible with the topology of the small space.
We can characterize the cover by how injective the function is. E.g. if two elements of the large space map to each element of the small space, then we have a double cover and so on.
Manifold Updated 2025-07-16
We map each point and a small enough neighbourhood of it to , so we can talk about the manifold points in terms of coordinates.
Does not require any further structure besides a consistent topological map. Notably, does not require metric nor an addition operation to make a vector space.
Manifolds are cool. Especially differentiable manifolds which we can do calculus on.
A notable example of a Non-Euclidean geometry manifold is the space of generalized coordinates of a Lagrangian. For example, in a problem such as the double pendulum, some of those generalized coordinates could be angles, which wrap around and thus are not euclidean.
Metric (mathematics) Updated 2025-07-16
A metric is a function that give the distance, i.e. a real number, between any two elements of a space.
A metric may be induced from a norm as shown at: Section "Metric induced by a norm".

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