Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

Our minimal definition of "electronic money" is the following.

Instead of creating legal tender such as Dollars as banknotes or transactions in some complex obscure banking system, the government offers an official simple centralized API that represents it instead.

Each citizen or legal entity has an account there, and transfers between registered users are just simple API calls.

So for example you would e able to put all your money in the government account instead of using useless banks. And then you would invest it as you want with the investment company of your choice, without tying the "my money is here" with "this is the best investment" aspects of banks.

This is where they moved the Chicago Pile-1 after they decided it might be a bad idea to run highly experimental nuclear reactions right in the middle of one of the most populous cities of the United States.

After it was reassembled, the Chicago Pile-1 was renamed as Chicago Pile 2 (CP2).

So more precisely, it is a continuation of the Metallurgical Laboratory.

It's still not that far though, only about 20 kilometers, and today is also a populated area.

Ciro Santilli maintains that they chose the site because the name is so cool. Wikipedia says it is derived from the Forest of Argonne, maybe it even shared etymology with the element argon.

TODO WTF is this? How is it built? What is special about it?

Mentioned a lot in the context of superconducting quantum computers, e.g. youtu.be/t5nxusm_Umk?t=268 from Video "Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits by Alexandre Blais (2012)",

A computer model that is as powerful as the most powerful computer model we have: Turing machine!

The first working one in 1947 by John Bardeen and walter Brattain in Bell Labs Murray Hill.

People had already patented a lot of stuff before without being able to make them work. Nonsense.

As the name suggests, this is not very sturdy, and was quickly replaced by bipolar junction transistor.

electroweak interaction + strong interaction.

Appears to be an unsolved physics problem. TODO why? Don't they all fit into the Standard Model already? So why is strong force less unified with electroweak, than electromagnetic + weak is unified in electroweak?

Gilberto is definitely the most psychedelic/tribal one of the The Holy Trinity of popular Brazilian music, though he also has a boyish quality to his soul.

He is also perhaps the one that impresses Ciro Santilli the most, at times he can't help but feel:

Ciro's word of caution for 2019 aspiring system programmers: Should you waste your life with systems programming?

This is basically a direct consequence of backward design.

The higher the level you can operate at, the better.

C is better than assembly, userland better than kernelland.

The ideal level to operate at, and one of humankind's greatest ambitions is "AGI, make me money", the highest possible level.

Only go down a level when it seems necessary.