Strassen algorithm by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Polanyi's paradox by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
AlphaEvolve by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Basically they require users to hand-code a metric and provide a program skeleton with some parts of the code marked to be replaced, and then the system focuses on modifying the code regions in question to optimize the metric.
All the novel results they announced were in constraint satisfaction problems or optimization problem. Their results are still awesome, but it's not very different from AlphaGo style things.
Star Wars meme by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
That's not my lightsaber Star Wars meme
. Source.
Multiplication of matrices of specific size by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
DeepMind likes coming up with new improved algorithms for these more specific cases, e.g. it was announced in 2025 that AlphaEvolve found a novel 4x4 complex valued algorithm that uses 48 multiplications.
Bibliography:
Apple II by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Apple I by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Steve Jobs' Apple-1 sells for $945k
. Source.
Constraint satisfaction problem by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Saint Eligius by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
Saint Eligius by Petrus Christus
. Source. Eligius pool is named after Saint Eligius, patron of goldsmiths and miners[ref]
Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering by Because Science (2019)
Source. Shows an explicit Turing complete Magic The Gathering setup with real cards in a standard "extremely lucky" 2 player game.
Exploration-exploitation dilemma by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Dimensionality reduction by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
I can't believe I had missed that meme until now, and I couldn't resist the temptation to translate it
Video 1.
Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands (2017)
Source.
Video 2.
Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands (2022)
Source.
Video 3.
Those against raise their hands Xi Jinping remix by Ciro Santilli
. Source. I also couldn't resist a Kdenlive exercise in voice sampling. It was remarkably easy to do, not bad.
Video 4.
Al Capone hits a homerun scene from the film The Untouchables
. Source.
Video 5.
Committee meeting scene from the film The Death of Stalin
. Source.
Updates / Understanding the state of 3x3 matrix multiplication by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
After yet another awesome announcement by DeepMind that it had improved theoretical 4x4 matrix multiplication reducing the number of scalar multiplications with its AlphaEvolve system, I decided to have a look at the smallest open size 3x3 to understand what was going on in there.
Updates / Two Linux Kernel Module Cheat videos by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
I made not one but two quick presentation videos about my project Linux Kernel Module Cheat, an emulation setup to study and develop the Linux kernel and more:
I had meant to do this editing for a while and kept pushing it off because editing hurts, but finally sat down did it, partly prompted by my quick recent updates made to the projects part of post OurBigBook job search round 2025. At first I was thinking of making a single video, but after I recorded the demo a bit it seemed like two separate ones would make more sense.
I also created a bug report for Kdenlive, the video editor that I used, for a freeze that happens if you try to shift + delete the last item of the timeline: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504103. Kdenlive is a good editor, but unfortunately it has new freezes and crashes relatively often.
One more useless task that I get off my head, on to the next!
Video 2.
Linux Kernel Module Cheat demo
. Source.
CIA 2010 covert communication websites / HTML title element by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
The discoverty of a possible HTML information leaks on HTML <title> of webofcheer.com which is cryptically set as:
pg1c
motivated us to download all HTML and have a grep.
We started grepping with:
grep -ai '<title>' */index.html
and to just get the titles alone for visual inspection:
grep -ahi '<title>' */index.html | sed -r 's/^\s*<title>//;s/<\/title>.*//'
Some mildly interesting facts include:
  • opensourcenewstoday.com is titled just as "Title"
    opensourcenewstoday.com/index.html:<title>Title</title>
  • a few sites are titled "Untitled Document" e.g.:
    media-coverage-now.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title>
    newsandsportscentral.com/index.html:  <title>Untitled Document</title>
    newsincirculation.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title>
    newsworldsite.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title>
    primetimemovies.net/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title>
    unganadormundial.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title>
    This may have been the default title in Adobe Dreamweaver.
  • some others have empty title:
    aeronet-news.com/index.html:<title></title>
    al-rashidrealestate.com/index.html:             <title></title>
    arabicnewsunfiltered.com/index.html:<title></title>
    dailynewsandsports.com/index.html:<title></title>
    electronictechreviews.com/index.html:<title></title>
    indirectfreekick.com/index.html:<title></title>
    iran-newslink-today.com/index.html:<title></title>
    iraniangoals.com/index.html:<title></title>
    kickitnews.com/index.html:<title></title>
    mediocampodefutbol.com/index.html:<title></title>
    middle-east-newstoday.com/index.html:      <title></title>
    mygadgettech.com/index.html:<title></title>
    sayaara-auto.com/index.html:<title></title>
    techwatchtoday.com/index.html:<title></title>
    the-open-book-online.com/index.html:<title></title>
    thenewsofpakistan.com/index.html:<title></title>
    theworld-news.net/index.html:<title></title>
    todaysengineering.com/index.html:<title></title>
    todaysnewsreports.net/index.html:<title></title>
    worldnewsandent.com/index.html:<title></title>
  • some others are titled just "index" or a variant of it:
    all-sport-headlines.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    europeannewsflash.com/index.html:<title>Index</title>
    fgnl.net/index.html:<title>Index Page</title>
    iraniangoalkicks.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    just-the-news.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    mide-news.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    mytravelopian.com/index.html:<title>Index</title>
    noticiasdelmundolatino.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    pakcricketgrd.com/index.html:  <title>index</title>
    pangawana.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    sportsnewsfinder.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    thenewseditor.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    turkishnewslinks.com/index.html:<title>index2</title>
    wahidfutbol.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    webscooper.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
    webworldsports.com/index.html:<title>index</title>
  • a few don't have <title> at all:
    b2bworldglobal.com/index.html
    bailandstump.com/index.html
    businessexchangetoday.com/index.html
    commercialspacedesign.com/index.html
    court-masters.com/index.html
    flyingtimeline.com/index.html
    marketflows.net/index.html
    nouvellesetdesrapports.com/index.html
    senderosdemontana.com/index.html
    sixty2media.com/index.htm
It is impossible to tell if these were oversights, or intentional to simulate common web development quircks. But they are cute in any case.
CIA 2010 covert communication websites / Binary files by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
As per:
grep . */index.html | grep 'binary file matches'
a few of the HTMLs are interpreted by grep as being binary:
grep: china-destinations.org/index.html: binary file matches
grep: classicalmusicboxonline.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: driversinternationalgolf.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: familyhealthonline.net/index.html: binary file matches
grep: grubbersworldrugbynews.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: hai-pow.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: hi-tech-today.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: networkofnews.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: nigeriastar.net/index.html: binary file matches
grep: noticias-caracas.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: theentertainbiz.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: thefilmcentre.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: theinternationalgoal.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: wildbirds-seasia.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: worldedgenews.com/index.html: binary file matches
martinezjavier/ldd3 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This repo has ported the kernels up to 5.10 as of writing. github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3/pull/86 attempts to go further into 6.x but has been ignored for two years unfortunately.

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