x86 Paging Tutorial by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-19
This tutorial explains the very basics of how paging works, with focus on x86, although most high level concepts will also apply to other instruction set architectures, e.g. ARM.
The goals are to:
  • demonstrate minimal concrete simplified paging examples that will be useful to those learning paging for the first time
  • explain the motivation behind paging
This tutorial was extracted and expanded from this Stack Overflow answer.
Parity violation by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
This is quite mind blowing. The laws of physics actually differentiate between particles and antiparticles moving in opposite directions!!!
Only the weak interaction however does it of the fundamental interactions.
Some historical remarks on Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman section "The 7 Percent Solution".
It gets worse of course with cP Violation.
Freely licensed Bibles by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
With Falun Gong it's even more fun: the words of God Himself are will be copyrighted for a while after Li Hongzhi dies!!!
Mortal matrix problem by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
One of the most simple to state undecidable problems.
The reason that it is undecidable is that you can repeat each matrix any number of times, so there isn't a finite number of possibilities to check.
Translation group by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
This is a good and simple first example of Lie algebra to look into.
Onion service by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
This is a way to host a server that actually hide the IP of the server from the client, just like Tor hides the IP of the client from the server. Amazing tecnology!
This is why it enables hosting illegal things like the Silk Road: law enforcement is not able find where the server is hosted, and take it down or identify the owner.
By looking at this more general point of view, we could ask ourselves what happens to the group if instead of the dot product we took a more general bilinear form, e.g.:
The answers to those questions are given by the Sylvester's law of inertia at Section "All indefinite orthogonal groups of matrices of equal metric signature are isomorphic".
Dr. Strangelove by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Inside the Making of 'Dr. Strangelove' part 2
. Source.
One-time pad by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The only perfect cryptosystem!
The problem is that you need a shared key as large as the message.
Systems like advanced Encryption Standard allow us to encrypt things larger than the key, but the tradeoff is that they could be possibly broken, as don't have any provably secure symmetric-key algorithms as of 2020.
Final Fantasy VI by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
OMG, the second half of the game where the world becomes quite open and all backstories are revealed, is one of the best gaming moments ever.

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