Google Scholar by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Does this contain any structured data? E.g. can you list all papers by a given author besides just searching and hoping there are no homonyms?
Knol by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Very similar to OurBigBook.com!
People who worked on it:
Video 1.
How to use Google Knol by Hack Learning (2011)
Source. One of the last users of the website for sure! The owner of that YouTube channel is a Mark Barnes:
Video 2. Source.
Replying to a listener phone-in question WNYC radio, mediated by Brian Lehrer.
It was about to launch it seems, and it was not clear at the time that anyone could write content, as opposed to only selected people.
Jimmy then corrects that misinformation. He then clearly states that since there can be multiple versions of each article, including opinion pieces, like OurBigBook.com, Knol would be very different to Wikipedia, more like blogging than encyclopedia.
Video 3.
Google Knol: the future of academic journals? by Doug Belshaw (2010)
Source.
Bibliography:
Google custom silicon by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Google has put considerable effort into custom hardware to greatly optimize its stack, in a way that is quite notable compared to other tech companies.
Largey Brage by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
The outcome of Larry Page and Sergey Brin performing a Dragon Ball fusion dance.
Both of them attended Montessori education at some point. Interesting! Mentioned in a talk by Sergey and highlighted at The Google Story.
But in 2023 they were somewhat pulled back in by the AI race and competition with ChatGPT.[ref]
As The Google Story puts it about Largey:
Scholarship was not just emphasized in their homes; it was treasured.
Ciro Santilli likes that.
DeepMind by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
They seem to do some cool stuff.
They have also declined every one of Ciro Santilli's applications for software engineer jobs before any interview. Ciro always wondered what does it take to get an interview with them. Lilely a PhD? Oh well.
In the early days at least lots of gamedev experience was enough though: www.linkedin.com/in/charles-beattie-0695373/.
Dots in Gmail address by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
This allows you to create multiple non-anonymous accounts on any website that doesn't account for it, as this is not part of the email protocols in general.
GitHub by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
This is where Ciro Santilli stored his code since he started coding nonstop in 2013.
He does not like the closed source aspect of it, but hey, there are more important things to worry about, the network effect is just too strong.
GitLab by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
GitLab was very important to Ciro because he wanted to base Booktree on it.
tig (git UI) by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
This is good. But it misses some key operations, so much so that makes Ciro not want to learn/use it daily.
Gauge field by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
A random field you add to make something transform locally the way you want. See e.g.: Video "Deriving the qED Lagrangian by Dietterich Labs (2018)".

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