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Gridworld by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This is analogous to many traditional board games such as chess, the concept is very natural and maps well into computer.
The downsides of gridworld games are:
  • it is hard to model speed in discrete worlds. When you 10x faster, when do you collide with something else that is also crossing your path?
  • they tend to not use vector representations of objects. So to have an object be 10x longer than another one, the naive implementation has to add 10 smaller objects. This becomes untenable as the number of objects increases.
Academia is broken by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Sometimes Ciro Santilli regrets not having done a PhD. But this section makes him feel better about himself. To be fair, part of the merit is on him, part of the reason he didn't move on was the strong odour of bullshit oozing down to Masters level. A good PhH might have opened interesting job opportunities however, given that you don't really learn anything useful before that point in your education.
twitter.com/togelius/status/1584611702691483648:
The "real world" is full of people who couldn't make it in academia.
Video 1.
I failed in academia by Andy Stapleton (2021)
Source.
Video 2.
6 Dirty Tactics Found In Academia & Universities by Andy Stapleton (2022)
Source.
Video 3.
Rise to the Top: The Habits and Mindset of Top 0.1% PhD Students by Andy Stapleton (2023)
Source.
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Profzi scheme by PhD Comics
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A Ponzi scheme that trains people in new skills is not necessarily a terrible thing. It is a somewhat more useful version than standard exam based education.
Perhaps the problem is "forcing" 35 year olds to go down that path when they might also want to have boring stuff like families and security.
If people could get to the PhD level much, much sooner, it wouldn't be as obscene: Section "Students must be allowed to progress as fast as they want".
Video 4.
The broken system at the heart of Academia by Peter Judo (2023)
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Video 5.
My dream died, and now I'm here by Sabine Hossenfelder (2024)
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Video 6.
I left academia. Here's why. by Jared Henderson
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Prime k-tuple conjecture by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
There are infinitely many prime k-tuples for every admissible tuple.
Generalization of the Twin prime conjecture.
As of 2023, there was no specific admissible tuple for which it had been proven that there infinite of, only bounds of type:
there are infinitely 2-tuple instances with at most a finite bound
But these do not specify which specific tuple, e.g. Yitang Zhang's theorem.
How to teach / Help students achieve their goal by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Don't set goals for your students.
Ask students what they want to do, and help them achieve that goal.
If they don't know what to do, give suggestions of interesting things they could do.
Once they have a goal, just help them learn everything that is needed to achieve that goal
If they don't have a goal, any attempt to learn is a total and complete waste of time.
This is because the universe of potentially useful things that can be learnt is infinite, and no human can ever learn everything.
The only solution, is to try and learn only what seems necessary to reach your goal, and just try to reach your goal instead.
This approach is called backward design.
"Graduating" and "getting a diploma" are not valid goals, because they are useless. A goal has to be either an amazing specific technological or artistic development.
Digital computer by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
How to teach / Use the Internet by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
If you give a course in a classroom, you reach 10 people (the others were sleeping).
If you make a perfect course online, and answer questions online, you reach 10 thousand.
Not doing things online is a waste of time.
You are a highly trained professional, and your time is extremely valuable.
Even if it takes twice as long to create the material than giving course, you are still more efficient by a factor of 500.
It is as if there were 500 little copies of you working full time. It is a superpower.
Inscription (blockchain) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Data that is inscribed in a blockchain as a way to perpetuate the data, rather than to follow the main intended purpose of the given blockchain, e.g. ASCII art instead of financial transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Synchron by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Syncron explanation video by Syncron (2018)
Source.
Video 2.
Rodney & Phil Use Our Brain Computer Interface by Syncron (2022)
Source. It might be amazing for those dudes, but it still has a long way to go.
CEA Paris-Saclay by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Centerpiece of the CEA since the beginning of the French nuclear weapons program, headquarters since 2006.
As of 2023 the place was blurred on Google Maps satellite view, no wonder.
Computer chess by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
First-move advantage in chess by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Shogi by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Chengyu by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Chinese slang by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's hardware / Samsung MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7 512GB SSD by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
PCIe TLC OPAL2.
sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1p5 on Ubuntu 20.04:
 Timing cached reads:   29812 MB in  1.99 seconds = 15007.00 MB/sec
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 Timing buffered disk reads: 6328 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2109.00 MB/sec
Nominal maximum sequential read speed: 3,000 MB/s

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