Television series that Ciro Santilli watched all episodes of by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The best way to watch a television series is: wait for the thing to end. Then watch the first and last episodes of each season. The rest is fluff. And then pick up any missing interesting clips from YouTube. If a series holds you more than those episodes, it is one of the few amazing ones!
Anime by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Fax by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Uses telephone lines, and therefore were still usable much much after the Internet made them obsolete, which is quite funny.
Video 1.
Teletype ASR 33 Part 10: ASR 33 demo by CuriousMarc (2020)
Source.
Video 2.
Fax Machine by Museum of Obsolte Objects (2011)
Source.
Paulo Freire by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire:
During his childhood and adolescence, Freire ended up four grades behind, and his social life revolved around playing pick-up football with other poor children, from whom he claims to have learned a great deal. These experiences would shape his concerns for the poor and would help to construct his particular educational viewpoint. Freire stated that poverty and hunger severely affected his ability to learn. These experiences influenced his decision to dedicate his life to improving the lives of the poor: "I didn't understand anything because of my hunger. I wasn't dumb. It wasn't lack of interest. My social condition didn't allow me to have an education. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge"
OMG so nice.
Kingdom (biology) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
There's six to eight in different systems of the end of the 20th century:This mess is because people don't realize that clades are all that really matter.
Tax the rich by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
How the rich avoid paying taxes by Vox (2021)
Source. Features interview with Morris Pearl, a rich dude that is campaigning to tax the rich. He also participates in an association called "Patriotic Millionaires" to further this agenda.
Video 2.
What Eating the Rich Did For Japan by Asianometry (2021)
Source.
Nervous system by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Dwarf Fortress by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Made by a single dude. As SsethTzeentach puts it, this is the greatest autism project ever made.
Cooper pair by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
BCS Theory by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Main theory to explain Type I superconductors very successfully.
TODO can someone please just give the final predictions of BCS, and how they compare to experiments, first of all? Then derive them.
High level concepts:
Real-time strategy by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Double star by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Parameters of the Standard Model by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The growing number of parameters of the Standard Model is one big source of worry for early 21st century physics, much like the growing number of particles was a worry in the beginning of the 20th (but that one was solved by 2020).
Ciro's Edict #8 / Article metadata shown next to every header by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is a major feature: we have now started to inject the following buttons next to every single pre-rendered header:
  • "Like"
  • "By Other On The Same Topic"
  • "Discussions", i.e. the issue tracker for the header
  • "Create my own version" or "View my version of the page" or "Edit" button depending on wether the user can edit or already has a version of the article or not
This crucial feature makes it clear to every new user that every single header has its own separate metadata, which is a crucial idea of the website.
Figure 1.
Screenshot showing metadata next to each header
. The page is: ourbigbook.com/donald-trump/chemistry. Note how even the subheaders "Chemical element" and "Hydrogen" show the metadata.
Ciro's Edict #7 / --format-source by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Added ourbigbook --format-source automatic code formatting. I implemented it for the following reasons:
  • I want to do certain automatic modifications to source code on web, e.g.:
    • allow users to select the parent article of a new article on the web UI, but that is currently doable only with \Include macros
    • allow users to edit the source only for a specific header
  • later on, much later, this will allow WYSIWYG export to plaintext
This also ended up having one unexpected benefit: whenever a new feature is added that deprecates an old feature, by converting the large corpus from github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io to the new feature I can test the new preferred feature very well.
For example, converting \x[blue cat] en masse to the new insane syntax <blue cat> found several bugs with the new insane syntax.
This seemed somewhat easy at first, so I started it as a way of procrastinating more urgent Web features (web scares me, you know), but it ended being insanely hard to implement, because there are many edge cases. Also, most bugs are not acceptable, as they would corrupt your precious source code and potentially output.
But well, it is done!
Ciro's Edict #5 / Completely rebrand Cirodown to OurBigBook by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The name cirodown should not appear anywhere now, except with very few exceptions, e.g.:
I have also squatted OurBigBook on all major social media handles for near future usage, e.g.: twitter.com/ourbigbook and so on.
I was going to do this sooner or later, it was inevitable, but the timing was partly triggered due to noticing that English speakers (and likely many other nationalities) are not able to easily read/hear/pronounce "Ciro".
Zhang Ziqian by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Maser by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Principles of the Optical Maser by Bell Labs
. Source. Date: 1963.
Yann LeCun by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The most classic thing he did perhaps was creating the LeNet neural network and using it on the MNIST dataset to recognize hand-written digits circ 1998.

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