Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

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.

This quote was brought to Ciro Santilli's attention at: www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/

A Jackdaw is a type of crow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_jackdaw

Considered one of the 10 famous Chaozhou music pieces TODO list.

Was also adapted by Liu Baoshan (1937-1997) as a pipa song. Ciro Santilli prefers the pipa version.

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Huge interest overlap with Ciro Santilli, e.g. he's into

Ciro Santilli worked on it for a brief time in 2016, when it was still called Ring, before he got fired. :-)

The people were quite nice and the project idea is fine, Ciro hopes they succeed.

Ciro Santilli's favorite music genre.

Ciro's 2020 perfect Friday evening: jazz fusion + study quantum field theory on an Amazon Kindle. Ahhhhhh.

Ciro Santilli's favorites, including album when they're more of a one hit wonder:

Many good albums, Ciro Santilli's favorites:

Mentinoned at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Baggott quoting popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/jim-baggott-four-way-interview.html

Ciro Santilli and Jim would get along mighty well: there is value in tutorials written by beginners.

Fun fact, in 2024 Ciro Santilli corrected John's place of birth on hist Nobel Prize page: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2002/sulston/facts/, details: Getting a list of all currencies from Wikidata with SPARQL.

This is the one Ciro Santilli envies the most, because he has such a great overlap with Ciro's interests, e.g.:

Ciro Santilli lived there from 1995 to 1997.

Creator of Primer

youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Primer gives real identity:Feels exactly the background you'd expect: disilusioned by the educational system, and working to make education better! Great guy! Reminds Ciro Santilli of himself a bit.

Face reveal at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC91Bf8hQVo

Ciro Santilli was contributing to this, when CommonMark left private mode and killed it, thus wasting many hours of Ciro's time.

See also: Ciro Santilli's minor projects.

Ciro Santilli feels that this user has a surprisingly similar contribution pattern (one of the top necromancers) and subjects (Python, Bash) to Ciro Santilli.

Ciro tried to contact him to say hi, but it was hard to find a contact. kenorb, feel free to send Ciro a hi one of those days. Ciro knows kenorb knows Ciro exists because kenorb has in the past starred some of Ciro's stuff, e.g. github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer from Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain.

His GitHub github.com/kenorb gives name Rafal W. and links to some trading stuff: github.com/EA31337, especially compatible with his stated location of London.

Rafal is Rafael in Polish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafał It would normally have the l with a stroke, but ASCII.

His LinkedIn sys the R3 company he works at is actually a blockchain company: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R3_(R3CEV), FOREX appears to be his on-the-side.

The Khômiss was a Binet that had 12 undisclosed participants every year.

They intentionally projected the idea of a semi scary and cool secret society/cult/Fascist/Gestapo/non-racist Ku Klux Klan-like organization

Khômiss members would wear a face cover whenever they would go out "on duty", notably to break a student's door with a fire axe when some student had fucked up particularly bad.

The Khômiss had an ambivalent character: while on one hand they would punish students that they felt had fucked up, they were actually semi approved by the school's head.

And conversely, they could also play pranks on the school head, e.g. vandalizing their office with funny objects if they had made some decision that was particularly unpopular to the students. This also likely with tacit approval, and as a way to be a "cool independent organization that also represents the students".

As such, the Khômiss aimed to be a sort of a "conscience" of the cohort, punishing the evil deeds of either side.

They were apparently unfortunately disbanded by the school in 2013 it seems, just after Ciro Santilli left. They took some poor student out by car and left him more than 1km outsie of the school for some reason. But he had a cell phone and walked came back, so doesn't feel that serious. Likely the political correctness of the times just caught up with them.

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For Ciro Santilli, this is not a computer keyboard. It is a fetish.

The most powerful GUI file manager ever?? Infinite configurability??

Ciro Santilli wasted some time on it before he gave up on file managers altogether and started using only the CLI with a few aliases.