Multiplicative inverse by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Quadratically closed field by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
DeepMind Lab2D vs gvgai by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
At twitter.com/togelius/status/1328404390114435072 called out on DeepMind Lab2D for not giving them credit on prior work!
This very much looks like like GVGAI which was first released in 2014, been used in dozens (maybe hundreds) of papers, and for which one of the original developers was Tom Schaul at DeepMind...
As seen from web.archive.org/web/20220331022932/http://gvgai.net/ though, DeepMind sponsored them at some point.
Number of elements of an elliptic curve over the rational numbers by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Can be finite or infinite! TODO examples. But it is always a finitely generated group.
Chordate by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Chordate is a sad clade.
You read the name and think: hmm, neural cords!
But then you see that his is one of its members:
Yup. That's your cousin. And it's a much closer cousin than something like arthropods, which at least have heads eyes and legs like you.
AMD CPU by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
They have been masters of second sourcing things for a long time! One can ony imagine the complexity of the Intel cross licensing deals.
Zatoichi effect by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This is a neologism by Ciro Santilli, it refers to the fact that Zatoichi was not fully blind, but extremely hard of sight, which makes him:
  • too capable for the blind people, who did not trust him
  • too incapable for non-blind people, who despised him
and metaphorically refers to similar situations where a person or group of people are in the middle of two groups and not part of either of them.
A related thing that comes to mind is Aum Shinrikyo's Prophet Shoko Asahara, who was semi blind, and would bully the fully blind people of his school for blind people.
X-inactivation by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
epigenetics mechanism.
Video 1.
X-Inactivation and Epigenetics by WEHImovies (2012)
Source. Shows how this makes every female mammal a chimera.
webpack Sass import by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This shows how to produce a minimized fully embedded CSS file with webpack from a sass:
cd webpack/sass
npm install
npm run build
xdg-open index.html
That example produces a dist/main.css file which is a compresesd combination of:
W boson by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Human vitamin by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Verilator interactive example by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
The example under verilog/interactive showcases how to create a simple interactive visual Verilog example using Verilator and SDL.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/verilog-interactive.gif
You could e.g. expand such an example to create a simple (or complex) video game for example if you were insane enough. But please don't waste your time doing that, Ciro Santilli begs you.
Usage: install dependencies:
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev verilator
then run as either:
make run RUN=and2
make run RUN=move
Tested on Verilator 4.038, Ubuntu 22.04.
In those examples, the more interesting application specific logic is delegated to Verilog (e.g.: move game character on map), while boring timing and display matters can be handled by SDL and C++.
Vimium by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Since you can't escape shitty browser GUIs and live in the command line, the next best thing you can do is to bring Vim bindings to your browser :-)
There is one major annoyance: you can't use ESC to leave the address bar focus, but using Tab as a workaround works:
Silicon photonics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Silicon Photonics: The Next Silicon Revolution? by Asianometry (2022)
Source.
Video 2.
Running Neural Networks on Meshes of Light by Asianometry (2022)
Source.
Video 3.
Silicon Photonics for Extreme Computing by Keren Bergman (2017)
Source.
Silicon photomultiplier by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Here is a vendor showcasing their device. They claim in that video that a single photon is produced and detected:
IonQ by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 2. Source. Co-founder of IonQ. Cool dude. Starts with basic background we already know now. Mentions that there is some relationship between atomic clocks and trapped ion quantum computers, which is interesting. Then he goes into turbo mode, and you get lost unless you're an expert! Video 1. "Quantum Simulation and Computation with Trapped Ions by Christopher Monroe (2021)" is perhaps a better watch.
Alice&Bob by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Funding rounds:
Video 1.
Cat Qubits and LDPC Codes, a New Step Towards Quantum Error Correction by Alice&Bob
. Source.
Video 2.
Behind The Tech : Cryostats by Alice&Bob
. Source. Showcasing their Bluefors dilution refrigerators. They are named after Asterix characters.

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