Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

Tell students to:

Praise those that do this very highly, and give them better grades if you have that superpower.

This is part of a larger concept Ciro Santilli holds dear: don't just consume, but also produce.

Whatever you do, even if it is playing video games: if you manage to produce related content that will interest other people, and possibly allow you to get paid, it will much much fun to do that thing.

Search a lot first, and only create your own when you can't find something that suits you.

Someone else has already written everything you can come up with.

And if you do find something useful that you want to modify, propose your modifications to the author: they can also be useful to them and others.

Lists:

I copied this grading scale mechanism from a failed Google interview ;-)

One problem with it is that I am always very hesitant to put a 5 on anything, who can not look at the documentation?

It is also hard to scope things right. Who can claim to be a C++ or Linux kernel expert, even if you wrote a book about it, since those are such humongous topics?

As a result, I haven't updated this in a while, and things may be out of date.

If your project does something that interests me, I can what it takes to contribute. Tell me what I must know, how long I have to learn it, and I'll call you back when I've mastered it.

The impact of the work is greater when you examine what one single new technology would do to existing society, as in Primer (2004), rather than "start on a society with severl new technologies", like in Star Wars.

A ring where multiplication is commutative and there is always an inverse.

A field can be seen as an Abelian group that has two group operations defined on it: addition and multiplication.

And then, besides each of the two operations obeying the group axioms individually, and they are compatible between themselves according to the distributive property.

Basically the nicest, least restrictive, 2-operation type of algebra.

Examples:

No good per-sub way as of 2022:

Important 4D spaces:

And the articles that really matter:

Web of Stories contains amazing interviews with many (mostly American) winners.

See Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman chapter Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake's amazing comments about the Nobel Prize.

TODO who is the digital switch person he mentions?