Incoming links: Ciro Santilli
HyperCard Updated 2025-07-16
HyperPhysics Updated 2025-07-16
Created by Dr. Rod Nave from Georgia State University, where he worked from 1968 after his post-doc in North Wales on molecular spectroscopy.
While there is value to that website, it always feels like it falls a bit too short as too "encyclopedic" and too little "tutorial-like". Most notably, it has very little on the history of physics/experiments.
Ciro Santilli likes this Rod, he really practices some good braindumping, just look at how he documented his life in the pre-social media Internet dark ages: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Nave-html/nave.html
The website evolved from a HyperCard stack, as suggested by the website name, mentioned at: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html.
Shame he was too old for CC BY-SA, see "Please respect the Copyright" at hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html.
exhibits.library.gsu.edu/kell/exhibits/show/nave-kell-hall/capturing-a-career has some good photo selection focused on showing the department, and has an interview.
Kell hall is a building of GSU that was demolished in 2019: atlanta.curbed.com/2020/1/31/21115980/gsu-georgia-state-atlanta-kell-hall-demolition-park-library-north
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Idealist Created 2024-11-04 Updated 2025-07-16
A few of the "I'd rather starve and do what I love than work some bullshit job people":
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5hYCN-tmU&t Worldyman, German skater. Ciro Santilli said hi at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5hYCN-tmU&lc=Ugz_QQOwrRG5Wjm52hp4AaABAg His reply suggests mental illness unfortunately:
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Innovative school Updated 2025-07-16
Including notably schools that follows Ciro Santilli's ideas as shown at how to teach.
- The National Science Institute, The Geek Group: came to Ciro Santilli's attention due to their Bitcoin activity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIRvn89988
Inria Created 2025-03-20 Updated 2025-07-16
They do some really fun hardcore mathy stuff over there!
Ciro Santilli interned at Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur in the early 2010's. It was a disaster, largely his own fault, but also due to our broken educational system. But they do have awesome things as well.
Instagram Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli is just too old to understand what the point of that website is compared to Twitter. There must be one, right?
Also, it is impossible to use it on the browser without a cell phone, similar critique as Section "Messaging software that force you to have a mobile phone" but a bit more aggravating, because, well, you would expect creators want people to see their stuff on a browser unlike private messages?
Institute for Advanced Study Updated 2025-07-16
Searcing beauty is a painful thing. You just keep endlessly looking for that one new insight that will blow your mind.
The key missing point would be "usefulness". See also: Section "Art".
Interesting members of the Santilli family Updated 2025-07-16
Found through Google with no direct relation known to Ciro Santilli:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santilli: Wikipedia page of the glorious family, Santillis with their own Wikipedia page:
- Ruggero Santilli: "fringe science guy", by far dominates Google as of 2019. Created the respectable R.M. Santilli Foundation
- Ray Santilli made a fake 1995 alien autopsy movie, YouTube sample: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVcaT2QnoDs
- Ivana Santilli: Canadian singer, pop-electric-chill: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQRuVN0H8dM
- accounts on important websites
- github.com/santilli anonymous GitHub as of 2019
- santilli.com/ for rent by realnames.com/ (wiki page) as of 2019
- Also Brazilian and tech related like Ciro Santilli.
- www.youtube.com/user/TheOverthrowShow thepetesantillishow.com/ Pete Santilli, American Conservative news commentator show, makes Ciro cringe of boredom. At least he has a passion.
Possibly related variants:
- Santillo:
- Will Santillo who makes somewhat artistic porn photos. His website with several free demos: santillophotography.com/
- www.linkedin.com/in/ciro-santillo-2025a6ba/ a "Ciro Santillo", github.com/Ciruxx, also a programmer
- Santilly, a town in Saône-et-Loire department, France
- santilly.com/ redirects to www.pompes-funebres-santilly.com/fr/, a French funerary service
Is fog computing more efficient than cloud computing? Updated 2025-07-16
Advantages of fog: there is only one, reusing hardware that would be otherwise idle.
Disadvantages:
- in cloud, you can put your datacenter on the location with the cheapest possible power. On fog you can't.
- on fog there is some waste due to network communication.
- you will likely optimize code less well because you might be targeting a wide array of different types of hardware, so more power (and time) wastage. Furthermore, some of the hardware used will not not be optimal for the task, e.g. CPU instead of GPU.
All of this makes Ciro Santilli doubtful if it wouldn't be more efficient for volunteers simply to donate money rather than inefficient power usage.
Bibliography:
- greenfoldingathome.com/2018/05/28/is-foldinghome-a-waste-of-electricity/: useless article, does not compare to centralize, asks if folding the proteins is worth the power usage...
I should have loved biology by James Somers Updated 2025-07-16
This resonates a lot with Ciro Santilli's ideas!
- physics and the illusion of life
- physics education needs more focus on understanding experiments and their history:
- Education is broken
- molecular biology feels like systems programming
I've never come across a subject so fractal in its complexity. It reminds me of computing that way.
Islam character Updated 2025-07-16
Islam has some really nice things in it.
Ciro Santilli especially appreciates the ideas of
It is hard to do something useful with a devboard Updated 2025-07-27
In the 2010's/2020's, many people got excited about getting children in to electronics with cheap devboards, notably with Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
While there is some potential in that, Ciro Santilli always felt that this is very difficult to do, while also keeping his sacred principle of backward design in mind.
The reason for this is that "everyone" already has much more powerful computers at hand: their laptops/desktops and even mobile phones as of the 2020s. Except perhaps if you are thing specifically about poor countries.
Therefore, the advantage using such devboards for doing something that could useful must come from either:
- their low cost. This would be an important consideration if you were to mass produce your product, but that is not going to be the case for learners, at least initially.
- their portability, and closely linked their ability to act as sensors
- their ability to act as actuators, which is often missing from regular computers
- them having hardware accelerators that are not normally present in regular computers, e.g. FPGAs or AI accelerators. And then the demo project must demonstrate that the project is able to do something significantly faster/cheaper on the devboard than on a desktop computer.
It must be easy to change your area of study Updated 2025-07-16
This is a pre-requisite of Section "Students must have a flexible choice of what to learn".
If the choice of what to learn depend on a years long dependency graph of other obligations, which currently are the increasingly interlinked:you end up without much choice at all.
- passing the University entry exam
- getting your undergrad degree
- getting your PhD
The lock-in periods must be much more fluid and shorter term than those, otherwise it makes the almost inevitable pivots to success impossible.
This is something that Ciro Santilli has heard from several people at the end of their undergrad/PhD degrees. Some online mentions:
It's Popular Now It Sucks Updated 2025-07-16
This is true: high budget movies are shit. Just TV Trops can articular it infinitely better than Ciro Santilli can.
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It surely would be intolerable not to know Created 2025-04-16 Updated 2025-07-16
A beautiful quote fom Edward Titchmarsh:[ref]Ciro Santilli believes that it is perhaps for this reason that simple to state but hard to prove theorems are so attractive.
It can be of no practical use to know that pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
This quote was brought to Ciro Santilli's attention at: www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/
Jackdaw Playing With Water Updated 2025-07-16