Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

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?

The "Truth and Beauty" motto hugely coincides with Ciro Santilli's ideas.

Truth is easier somewhat as it is more subjective.

Beauty, like all arts, sometimes you achieve, sometimes you don't.

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".

Found through Google with no direct relation known to Ciro Santilli:

Possibly related variants:

Advantages of fog: there is only one, reusing hardware that would be otherwise idle.

Disadvantages:

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:

This resonates a lot with Ciro Santilli's ideas!

Islam has some really nice things in it.

The way it was perverted to be used as a tool for terrorism by some is a great tragedy.

Ciro Santilli especially appreciates the ideas of

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:

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.

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:

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsPopularNowItSucks on TV Tropes.

This is true: high budget movies are shit. Just TV Trops can articular it infinitely better than Ciro Santilli can.

Related:

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.