History of special relativity by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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Spacetime by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The best code is no code at all by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Some blogs:
Also resonates with backward design.
Affero General Public License by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is an interesting licensing model that might just scale.
"Hello, World!" program by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The most important program ever written!!!
Other programs that can be considered "hello worlds" in different contexts:
Oracle Corporation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Evil company that desecrated the beauty created by Sun Microsystems, and was trying to bury Java once and or all in the 2010's.
Their database is already matched by open source e.g. PostgreSQL, and ERP and CRM specific systems are boring.
Oracle basically grew out of selling one of the first SQL implementations in the late 70's, and notably to the United States Government and particularly the CIA. They did deliver a lot of value in those early pre-internet days, but now open source is and will supplant them entirely.
Minimal working example by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli is obsessed by those in order to learn any new concept, not just for bug reporting.
This includes to learn more theoretical subjects like physics and mathematics.
Sinusoidal by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
A function that is either a sine or cosine, i.e. we don't know or care where the origin is exactly.
This is particularly relevant in electronics, where the oscilloscope's time origin is set to match the wave.
Gurdwara by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Theses places give out free food all the time.
The first time Ciro Santilli went to one was when an Indian friend of his took him to the one in the North of Paris when they were living there in the first half of the 2010's, the Gurdwara Singh Sabha France.
Instead of just talking, those people really go out, and put food on the plate for anyone who needs it (or even for those that don't really need it! Although who would be so souless to eat for free and not donate a few bucks if they can afford to???). There's a beauty to that.
Writing this also remembered Ciro of non-religious groups that would give out free food to the poor at
Courtship by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Sexy by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
BLAST (biotechnology) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
BLAST is a sequence alignment.
The NCBI free-to-use BLAST server: blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi. Having a centralized query server is fundamental, because the gain of sequence alignment really comes from having one huge database to link information together, which is best centralized.
Wafer (electronics) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Computer algebra system by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Primer (2004) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Things that can be understood are boring.
Aaron Swartz agrees: www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplained "Next week we'll explain Primer." He never did though :'-(
Transcendence (2014) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The premise that "we can't make AGI, but we know enough about the human brain to upload on to a computer" is flawed. Edit: after reading Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (2014), Ciro Santilli was convinced otherwise. What is flawed is of course just the "extracting connectome with macroscopic probes part". A post mortem connectome extraction with microtome is much more believable. But of course they weren't going to show fake slices of Jonny Depp's brain, are they? Famous actor bodies are sacred! What a huge lost opportunity. On the other hand however, the scale of the first connectome extraction would be arguably too huge to be undertaken by a random pair of rogue researchers. The same would also likely apply to any first time human brain connectome. It would much more likely be a huge public effort, much like the Human Genome Project.
But this film does have the merit of exploring how an AGI might act to take over the AGI might act to take over the world once created, notably by creating its own physical research laboratory. Though it doesn't feel likely that it could go under the radar for 2 years given the energetic requirements of the research. Even the terrorists find it before the FBI!
I also wish they had shown the dildo (or more likely, direct stimulation!) computerized Jonny Depp used to use with his wife before he managed to re-synthesized his body. But you know, 18+ would cut too much profits. Ah, what a shame.
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Can You Prove You're Self Aware? in the big lab scene from Transcendence (2014)
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Blaise Pascal (1972) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Riemann hypothesis by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
visualizing the Riemann hypothesis and analytic continuation by 3Blue1Brown (2016) is a good quick visual non-mathematical introduction is to it.
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What is the Riemann hypothesis REALLY about? by HexagonVideos (2022)
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