United States Intelligence Community by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Breaking Bad chemistry scene by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
One of the great joys of Breaking Bad are the possible accuracy chemistry scenes. You can really some some interesting things from them! This is partly due to the way things are so practically displayed.
Video 1.
That's The Best Coffee I've Ever Tasted scene from Breaking Bad
. Source. The chemistry and business related stuff is especially cool. Because when companies and criminals don't tell anyone about their secrets, it is up to the imagination of film makers to do so.
Video 2.
The Beauty Of Cooking scene from Breaking Bad S02 E09
. Source.
Video 3.
Walter Cooks With Gale scene from Breaking Bad S03 E06
. Source. Large part of it showcases Gale's coffee setup.
Video 4.
Gus Visits The Lab scene from Breaking Bad S04 E01
. Source. This scene highlights the exponentially increasing difficulty of obtaining the last few percent of purity of a chemical synthesis.
Regression analysis by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Regression analysis means to try and predict one final value from a bunch of input values.
For example, you might want to predict the most likely price of a house based on several factors such as its area, GPS coordinates and tax rate. Here is a Kaggle example of that: www.kaggle.com/c/house-prices-advanced-regression-techniques/data
Intelligence community by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's hardware / Virgin Media Hub 3 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Admin IP on router mode (the default): 192.168.0.1 It takes a long time to load each page and sometimes it seems to randomly fail, the experience is horrible. Resetting everything randomly sometimes helps, in particular browser cookies seem to break things so a clean browser profile is an idea.
Admin IP on modem mode: changes to 192.168.100.1
Updates / Post OurBigBook job search round 2025 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created 2025-05-26
I shouldn't be doing this on funded OurBigBook time which is until the end of May, but I was getting too nervous and decided to start a casual job search to test the waters.
In particular I want to see if I can get past the HR lady step without toning down my online profiles. If nothing works out for the next round I'll be hiding anything too spicy like:
Another interesting point is to see if French companies are more likely to reply given that Ciro Santilli studied at École Polytechnique which the French worship.
Figure 1.
Gay Putin, currently used in Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow profile
. Ciro's profiles may be a bit too much for the HR ladies who reject his job applications on the spot. To be fair, perhaps not enough years of experience for certain applications and job hopping may have something to do with it too. But since they don't ever tell you anything not to get sued, we'll never know.
I'm looking in particular either for:
I spent the last two weeks doing that:
I'll make sure to add two weeks of OurBigBook work after May to make up for this.
https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
DeepMind fuite fly by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
They didn't give the thing a name, so we're calling it the "DeepMind fuit fly" for now.
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.11.584515v1 Whole-body simulation of realistic fruit fly locomotion with deep reinforcement learning (2024)
Using MuJoCo.
Speech to speech by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
SiPearl by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Risky name with the Si prefix, too close to SiFive. Both a reference to silicon no doubt, but still. If they stick they will one day rename.
Codasip by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
RISC-V vendor by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Kinesis Advantage keyboard by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Kyutai by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
kyutai.org/ just says:
Our mission is to build and democratize artificial general intelligence through open science
they also don't say at all what they are looking into for AGI, the only public thing they have are speech to speech and speech-to-text so how's that related to agi at.
Giotto.ai by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
www.giotto.ai/
At Giotto.ai, our technology is designed to bridge the gap between current AI capabilities and the promise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Their website doesn't clearly explain their technology as of 2025.
They claim to have done some work on ARC-AGI which is cool, but no clear references to what they did or if there's anything public about it.
232 Santa Margarita Avenue by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Google garage (1998)
Source.
Description reads:
The company's sixth employee made this video tour of the office in 1998
so this should be Susan's garage, since the next office move was only in 1999 to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto.
Video 2.
Explore Google's original garage with Street View by Google
. Source. Featuring the now late Susan Wojcicki.
Google office by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created

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