Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

This section groups conjectures that are famous, solved or unsolved.

They are usually conjectures that have a strong intuitive reasoning, but took a very long time to prove, despite great efforts.

The list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics

Poet warriors monkeys? Or Code peasants (码农) according to the Chinese.

Ciro Santilli claims to be one of them.

Much like a pianist plays his piano, a software engineer plays his computer.

Many/most microcontroller boards have analog-to-digital converters built into them, it is very convenient. E.g. it is the case for the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Too many fun skit videos for Ciro Santilli's taste, but does have some serious derivations in quantum electrodynamics.

Looking at most astronomical object through a telescope is boring because you only see a white ball or point every time. Such targets would likely only be interesting with spectroscopy analysis.

There are however some objects that you can see the structure of even with an amateur telescope, and that makes them very exciting.

Some good ones:

Bibliography:

Google's quantum hardware/software effort.

The "AI" part is just prerequisite buzzword of the AI boom era for any project and completely bullshit.

According to job postings such as: archive.ph/wip/Fdgsv their center is in Goleta, California, near Santa Barbara. Though Google tends to promote it more as Santa Barbara, see e.g. Daniel's t-shirt at Video "Building a quantum computer with superconducting qubits by Daniel Sank (2019)".

List of handbooks open as of 2022 at: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/undergraduate-courses/teaching-and-learning/handbooks-synopses Kudos, e.g. unlike the physics course of the University of Oxford which paywalled them. 2022 one: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/UG%20Handbook%202022.pdf

The Oxford mathematics Moodle has detailed course listings, and most PDFs are not paywalled.

E.g. the 2024 course:

This is a good approach. The downside is that while you are developing the implementation and testing interactively you might notice that the requirements are wrong, and then the tests have to change.

One intermediate approach Ciro Santilli likes is to do the implementation and be happy with interactive usage, then create the test, make it pass, then remove the code that would make it pass, and see it fail. This does have a risk that you will forget to test something, but Ciro finds it is a worth it generally. Unless it really is one of those features that you are unable to develop without an automated test, generally more "logical/mathematical" stuff. This is a sort of laziness Driven Development.

He's good. Sometimes a bit repetitive, but generally pretty good.

Only the "original" videos matter. After those it became crap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DtVHqyYts Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (PC) (2014) is perhaps his best video.

Infinitely many SQL answers.

As mentioned at Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions, he just answers every semi-duplicate immediatly as it is asked, and is therefore able to overcome the Stack Overflow maximum 200 daily reputation limit by far. E.g. in 2018, Gordon reached 135k (archive), thus almost double the 73k yearly limit due to the 200 daily limit, all of that with accepts.

This is in contrast to Ciro Santilli's contribution style which is to only answer questions as he needs the subject, or generally important questions that aroused his interest.

2014 Blog post describing his activity: blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-overflow.html, key quote:so that suggests his contributions also take a meditative value.

www.data-miners.com/linoff.htm mentions he's an SQL consultant that consulted for several big companies.

LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/gordonlinoff/ says he now works at the New York Times.

2021 Reddit thread about him: www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/puok1h/a_single_person_answered_76k_questions_about_sql/ mentions that by then he had: