Nerds 2.0.1 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Very very good. Those nice pre-Dot-com bubble vibes.
Part 1 - Networking The Nerds talks about the TCP/IP and early machines implementing it:
Part 2 - Serving the Suits
Part 3 - Wiring the World:
Real projective space by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
In those cases at least, it is possible to add a metric to the spaces, leading to elliptic geometry.
Experimental physics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Experiment and theory are like the yin and yang: opposites, but one cannot exist without the other.
When taking a penalty kick in soccer, the kicker must chose left or right.
And before he kicks, the goalkeeper must also decide left or right, because there is no time to see where the ball is going.
Because the kicker is right footed however, he kicker kicks better to one side than the other. So we have four probabilities:
  • goal kick left keeper jumps left
  • goal kick right keeper jumps right
  • goal kick left keeper jumps right. Note that it is possible that this won't be a goal, even though the keeper is nowhere near the ball, as the ball might just miss the goal by a bit.
  • kick right and keeper jumps left. Analogous to above
Guitar by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The guitar is a highly imperfect instrument if compared to something like a piano, which is much more mathematically elegant.
However, Ciro Santilli just loves this imperfection for some reason, especially in the case of the electric guitar.
Bending, sliding and strumming just feel to good to not have.
And Ciro sucks are doing things in parallel, so the more single threaded approach of the guitar fits his brain/abilities better.
For those reasons, the electric guitar is Ciro's favorite musical instrument.
Pop music by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Pop music cannot be good by definition: any art that appeals to the masses (Popular!) has to be a boring watered down version of everything, and therefore boring shit. Just like the movies: high budget movies are shit.
Until maybe one day we can actually get a decent education for everyone.

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