Brazilian exchange students

Google product

Rydberg atom

Mass renormalization

SQL function

Medicine

Group operation

{tag=Ciro Santilli's psychology}

Two things come to mind when <Ciro Santilli> thinks about his sinohpilia.

There is a strong "<Ciro Santilli's knowledge hoarding>" side to it. Ciro has decided that he has to know EVERYTHING about <China>. It's culture. It's people. It's art. And so once that has been decided, it becomes inevitable.

But of course, there is also the "which part of Ciro's inner being led to that hoarding decision" part of things. <quote mishima every night>[Mishima's quote] often comes to mind:
\Q[Every night I return to my desk precisely at midnight. I thoroughly analyze why I am attracted to a particular theme. I drag it into my conscious mind. I boil it into abstraction.]

<Exoticism> is undoubtedly part of it.

Maybe it has something to do with growing up observing 5th+ generation <Japanese Brazilians> immigrants, well, being <Asian meme>[Asians] and crushing it academically. But also being quiet people, and sometimes misfits. I.e., nerds.

Maybe there is also someting to do with the influence Japanese anime, <Children cartoons Ciro Santilli liked to watch>[highly popular during Ciro's hildhood in Brazil]. Ciro, unlike many of his friends, left that relatively early, as he got into the deeper pleasures of <natural sciences> and then more traditional Asian culture. But still.

And finally perhaps the <correlation between sofware engineers and Asian fetish> and <the correlation between software engineers and Buddhism>.

Related on <cirosantilli china dictatorship>: https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much


Ciro Santilli's sinophily

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Analogous to what the <Euler-Lagrange equation> is to <Lagrangian mechanics>, Hamilton's equations give the <equations of motion> from a given input <Hamiltonian>:
$$
\frac{\partial H}{\partial q_j} = -\dot{p}_j \\
\frac{\partial H}{\partial p_j} =  \dot{q}_j
$$
So once you have the Hamiltonian, you can write down this system of <partial differential equations> which can then be numerically solved.


Hamilton's equations

Base calling

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This is <Ciro Santilli>'s favorite laptop brand. He's been on it since the early 2010's after he saw his <Ciro Santilli's wife>[then-girlfriend-later-wife] using it.

Ciro doesn't know how to explain it, but ThinkPads just feel... right. The screen, the keyboard, the lid, the touchpad are all exactly what Ciro likes.

The only problem with ThinkPad is that it is owned by <Lenovo> which is a <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[Chinese company], and that makes Ciro feel bad. But he likes it too much to quit... what to do?

Ciro is also reassured to see that in every enterprise he's been so far as of 2020, ThinkPads are very dominant. And the same when you see internal videos from other big tech enterprises, all those nerds are running... Ubuntu on ThinkPads! And the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-38_EVA-1_Laptops.jpg[ISS].

Those nerds like their ThinkPads so much, that Ciro has seen some acquaintances with crazy old ThinkPad machines, missing keyboard buttons or the like. They just like their machines that much.

ThinkPads are are also designed for repairability, and it is easy to buy replacement parts, and there are OEM part replacement video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vseFzFFz8lY No visible <planned obsolescence> here! With the caveat that the official online part stores can be <shit> as mentioned at <Lenovo>{full}.

Further more, in 2020 Lenovo is announced full certification for <Ubuntu> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/06/03/lenovos-massive-ubuntu-and-red-hat-announcement-levels-up-linux-in-2020/\#28a8fd397ae0 which \i[fantastic] news!

The only thing Ciro never understood is the trackpoint: https://superuser.com/questions/225059/how-to-get-used-of-trackpoint-on-a-thinkpad Why would you use that with such an amazing touchpad? And <vimium>.


ThinkPad

Polonium

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Was adopted by AskJeeves in 2001.

<The Google Story> Chapter 11. "The Google Economy" comments:
\Q[As they saw it, generation one was AltaVista, generation two was <Google>, and generation three was Teoma, or what Ask Jeeves came to refer to as Expert Rank. Teoma's technology involved mathematical formulas and calculations that went beyond Google's PageRank system, which was based on popularity. In fact, the concept had been cited in the original Stanford University paper written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as one of the methods that could be used to rank indexed Web sites in response to search requests. "They called their method global popularity and they called this method local popularity, meaning you look more granularly at the Web and see who the authoritative sources are," Lanzone said. He said Brin an Page had concluded that local popularity would be exceedingly difficult to execute well, because either it would require too much processing power to do it in real time or it would take too long.]

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/expertrank-authoritative-search.html mentions
\Q[ExpertRank is an evolution of IBM's CLEVER project, a search engine that never made it to public.]
and:
\Q[The difference between PageRank and ExpertRank is that for ExpertRank the quality of the page is important and that quality is not absolute, but it's relative to a subject.]

There are other more recent algorithms with similar names, and are prehaps related:
* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257015904_ExpertRank_A_topic-aware_expert_finding_algorithm_for_online_knowledge_communities ExpertRank: A topic-aware expert finding algorithm for online knowledge communities (2013)
* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5260966 ExpertRank: An Expert User Ranking Algorithm in Online Communities


ExpertRank

SQL application

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<Verilog> simulator that <transpiles> to <C++>.

One very good thing about this is that it makes it easy to create test cases directly in C++. You just supply inputs and clock the simulation directly in a C++ loop, then read outputs and assert them with `assert()`. And you can inspect variables by printing them or with GDB. This is infinitely more convenient than doing these IO-type tasks in <Verilog> itself.

Some simulation examples under \a[verilog].

First install <Verilator>. On <Ubuntu>:
``
sudo apt install verilator
``
Tested on Verilator 4.038, <Ubuntu 22.04>.

Run all examples, which have assertions in them:
``
cd verilator
make run
``

File structure is for example:
* \a[verilog/counter.v]: <Verilog> file
* \a[verilog/counter.cpp]: <C++> loop which clocks the design and runs tests with assertions on the outputs
* \a[verilog/counter.params]: <gcc> compilation flags for this example
* \a[verilog/counter_tb.v]: <Verilog> version of the <C++> test. Not used by Verilator. Verilator can't actually run out `_tb` files, because they do in Verilog IO things that we do better from <C++> in Verilator, so Verilator didn't bother implementing them. This is a good thing.

Example list:
* \a[verilog/negator.v], \a[verilog/negator.cpp]: the simplest non-identity combinatorial circuit!
* \a[verilog/counter.v], \a[verilog/counter.cpp]: sequential hello world. Synchronous active high reset with active high enable signal. Adapted from: http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/first1.html
* \a[verilog/subleq.v], \a[verilog/subleq.cpp]: subleq <one instruction set computer> with separated instruction and data RAMs


Title	Author	Created	Updated
Brazilian exchange students	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Google product	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Rydberg atom	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Mass renormalization	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
SQL function	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Medicine	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Group operation	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli's sinophily	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Hamilton's equations	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Base calling	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
ThinkPad	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Polonium	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
ExpertRank	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
SQL application	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Verilator	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
DeepMind project	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Personality	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
West Asia	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Child prodigy	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli's cooking	Ciro Santilli 32	1970-01-01	1970-01-01

Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 32)