Up March 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230306090740/https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/

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Down November 2023 http://web.archive.org/web/20231110041847/https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/

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| https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
| Exemplary. Never let me down. Has a public per-country takedown list: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/China

| Stack Overflow
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| https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-ourbigbook-com
| Elected mods refuse to say what is allowed or not, you have to fight and infer from meta threads: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/366163/can-i-use-images-such-as-from-tiananmen-square-protests-to-criticise-the-chinese[]. But generally shaming anything the West does not like is OK.
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PyPi: the cowards took it down

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<Good> pious <Cirists> earn Cirocoins.

Cirocoins are the most valuable form of currency that exists at any point.

Cirocoins can only be issued by <Ciro Santilli>.

Cirocoins are strictly nominal, and cannot be traded by recipients with anyone but Ciro, i.e. they are extremely <illiquid>.

Cirocoins can be removed from recipients at any point if they commit non-Cirist acts.

It is not possible to give a precise number to how many Cirocoins anyone owns. This is decided on a transaction by transaction basis. Ciro can therefore only inform you if your Cirocoin balance increased or decreased, but any attached number has no value, and thus are equivalent to expressions of type "you gained/lost a Cirocoin".

The following inferior currencies come to mind:
* <Knuth reward check>
* <Erdos number>


Cirocoin

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Check out: \b[https://OurBigBook.com], the best way to publish your scientific knowledge. It's an <open source> <note taking system> that can publish from <lightweight markup> files in your computer both to a multi-user \b[<mind melding>] dynamic website, or as a <static website>. It's like \b[<Wikipedia> + <GitHub> + <Stack Overflow> + <Obsidian (software)> mashed up]. Source code: \b[https://github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook].

<sponsor>[Sponsor me to work on this project]: 100k <USD> = I quit me job and work on it one year full time. Status: \b[~144k / 200k USD] reached: 1st year locked-in, 2nd year stretch goal open at 200k USD. 1M USD = I retire and do it forever. How to donate: <sponsor>{full}.

I reached \b[100k USD] after a <sponsor/1000 Monero donation>, so I quit my job for 1 year starting 1st June 2024 to solve as many <STEM> courses as I can from a world leading university to try and kickstart \b[The Higher Education Revolution]. If I reach \b[200k USD], then I'll do it for two years instead. A second year greatly improve chances of success: year one I solve a bunch of courses, year two I come guns blazing with the content and expand further.

\b[Mission]: to live in a world where you can learn <university>-level <mathematics>, <physics>, <chemistry>, <biology> and <engineering> from perfect free <open source> books that anyone can write to get famous. More rationale: <OurBigBook.com>{full}

<Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers>[Explaining things is my superpower], e.g. I was top user \#39 on <Stack Overflow> in 2023https://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/year/stackoverflow/2023-01-01{ref}<Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>{ref} and I have a few 1k+ star educational <GitHub> repositorieshttps://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat{ref}<Linux Kernel Module Cheat>{ref}https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples{ref}https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=user%3Acirosantilli&s=stars&type=Repositories{ref}. Now I want to bring that level of awesomeness to <Master's degree>[masters level] <Mathematics> and <Physics>. But I can't do it alone! So I created <OurBigBook.com> to allow everyone to work together towards the perfect book of everything.

My life's goal is to bring hardcore <university>-level <STEM> <open educational content> to all ages. Sponsor me at https://github.com/sponsors/cirosantilli[] starting from 1<Dollar>[[$]]/month so I can work full time on it. Further information: <sponsor>{full}. Achieving what I call "<free gifted education>" is my <Nirvana>.

<Ciro Santilli's website>[This website] is written in <OurBigBook Markup>, and it is published on both https://cirosantilli.com (<static website>) and https://outbigbook.om/cirosantilli (multi-user <OurBigBook Web> instance). Its <source code> is located at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io[] and https://cirosantilli.com/_dir[also at `cirosantilli.com/_dir`] and it is <licensed> under <CC BY-SA 4.0> unless otherwise noted.

To contact Ciro, see: <contact>{full}. He likes to talk with random people of the <Internet>.

https://github.com/cirosantilli[GitHub] | https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245[Stack Overflow] | https://www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli[LinkedIn] | https://www.youtube.com/c/CiroSantilli[YouTube] | https://twitter.com/cirosantilli[Twitter] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cirosantilli2[Wikipedia] | https://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities[Zhihu 知乎] | https://www.weibo.com/p/1005055601627311[Weibo 微博] | <accounts>[Other accounts]

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Besides that, I'm also a <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[freedom of speech] <slacktivist> and <Ciro Santilli's cycling>[recreational cyclist]. I like <Chinese traditional music> and classic <Brazilian pop>. Opinions are my own, but they could be yours too. <Tax the rich>.

Let's <the ideal university>[create an educational system] with:
* no distinction between <university> and <high school>, <students must have a flexible choice of what to learn>[students just go as fast as they can to what they really want] without stupid <university entry exams>
* <OurBigBook.com>[fully open source learning material]
* <exam as a service>[on-demand examinations that anyone can easily take without prerequisites]
* <the only reason for universities to exist should be the laboratories>[granular entry selection only for space in specific laboratories] or participation in specific <novel research> projects

\b[I offer]:
* online private tutoring for:
  * any <STEM> university course
  * passionate younger <STEM> students (any age) who want to learn university level material and beyond. Can your kid be the next <Fields Medalist> or <Nobel Prize> winner? I'm here to help, especially if you are filthy rich! I focus <Students must be allowed to progress as fast as they want>[moving students forward as fast as they want] on and on <how to teach/Projects must aim for novelty>[producing useful novel tutorials and results]

  Let <Emile, or On Education>[your child be my Emile], and me be their <Adolfo Amidei>, and let's see how far they can go! I will help take your child:
  * into the best <universities>
  * into the best <PhD> programs
  and achieve their ambitious <STEM> goals!
* educational consulting for institutions looking to improve their <STEM> courses
  * do you know \i[that] course or teacher that consistently gets bad reviews every year? I'll work with the teacher to turn the problem around!
  * are you looking to create a consistent <open educational resources> offering to increase your institutions internationally visibility? I can help with that too.

My approach is to:
* propose interesting research projects. The starting point is always deciding the end goal: <backward design>{full}
* learn what is needed to do the project together with the student(s)
* publish any novel results or tutorials/tools produced <freely licensed> online, and encourage the student to do the same (<how to teach/Let students learn by teaching>{full}, <digital garden>)
For minors, parents are welcome to join video calls, and all interactions with the student will be recorded and made available to parents.

I have <articles>[a proven track of explaining complex concepts in an interesting and useful way]. I work for the learner. Teaching statement at: <How to teach>{full}. Pricing to be discussed. Contact details at: <How to contact Ciro Santilli>{full}.

I am particularly excited about pointing people to the potential <next big things>, my top picks these days are:
* <quantum computing>
* <AGI research>
* assorted <molecular biology technologies>
I am also generally interested in:
* 20th century physics, notably <AMO> and <condensed matter>
* the <history of science>, and in particular <there is value in tutorials written by early pioneers of the field>[trying to look at seminal papers of a field]

\Image[https://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/895245.png?theme=dark]
{title=<Ciro Santilli>'s amazing <Stack Overflow> profile}
{description=Ciro contributes almost exclusively by answering question he <Googles> into out of his own need, and never by refreshing the newest question of big tags for low hanging fruit! More information at: <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>{full}.}
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JOJYx0mmhg]
{title=Introduction to the <OurBigBook Project>}
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54nxjC9BWTg]
{title=<OurBigBook Web> topics demo}
{description=The <OurBigBook topic feature> allows users to "merge their minds" in a "sort by upvote"-stack overflow-like manner for each subject. This is the killer feature of <OurBigBook Web>. More information at: https://docs.ourbigbook.com/ourbigbook-web-topics[].}
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_D_5tCQgg]
{title=<OurBigBook> dynamic article tree demo}
{description=The <OurBigBook dynamic tree> feature allows any of your headers to be the toplevel `h1` header of a page, while still displaying its descendants. <SEO> loves this, and it also allows users to always get their content on the correct granularity. More information at: https://docs.ourbigbook.com/ourbigbook-web-dynamic-article-tree[].}
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghvlztiu6rI]
{title=<OurBigBook> local editing and publishing demo}
{description=With <OurBigBook> you can store your content as plaintext files in a <Lightweight markup>, and then publish that to either <OurBigBook.com>  to get awesome multi-user features, or as a <static website> where you are in full control. More information at: https://docs.ourbigbook.com/publish-your-content[].}
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\Video[https://youtube.com/watch?v=j_fl4xoGTKU]
{title=Top Down <2D continuous game> with <Urho3D> <C++> <SDL> and <Box2D> for <Reinforcement learning> by <Ciro Santilli> (2018)}
{description=More information: <Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games>{full}. This is Ciro's underwhelming stab at the fundamental question: <Can AGI be trained in simulations?>. This project <todo>[could be taken much further].}
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-OYQatYvA]
{title=<Water Margin> tribute to <Chinese> dissidents by <Ciro Santilli> (2022)}
{description=Part of <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>, see also: https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/water-margin[].}
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{title=<Lenovo> <ThinkPad> T430 running a <BIOS> <hello world>}
{description=Source code: https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples[]. Ciro's <Linux Kernel Module Cheat> is a closely related and much more important project that covers the <Linux kernel> and <assembly language>.}
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``
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|  Force of Will               3 U U  |
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| |    ) /   \     |   |  /   _/    | |
| |   ) \  (  (   /   / /   / \     | |
| |  / ) ( )  / (    )/(    )  \    | |
| |  \(_)/(_)/  /UUUU \  \\\/   |   | |
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| Interrupt                           |
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| | You may pay 1 life and remove a | |
| | blue card in your hand from the | |
| | game instead of paying Force of | |
| | Will's casting cost.  Effects   | |
| | that prevent or redirect damage | |
| | cannot be used to counter this  | |
| | loss of life.                   | |
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``
{title=<ASCII art> of a https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=413591[Force of Will] <Magic: The Gathering> card <inscribed (Blockchain)> in the <Bitcoin blockchain>}
{description=
Artist unknown, uploaded December 2014. Part of <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain>{full} where <Ciro Santilli> maintains a curated list of such interesting inscriptions.

This was a small project done by Ciro for <artistic> purposes that received some attention due to the incredible hype surrounding <cryptocurrencies> at the time. <Ciro Santilli>'s views on  <cryptocurrencies> are summarized at: <Are cryptocurrencies useful?>{full}.
}

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<JPG> image fully embedded in the <Bitcoin blockchain> depicting some kind of cut material art depicting a yellow robot, <inscription (Blockchain)>[inscribed] on https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/4cbb32cd27b5b5edc12d3559bdffc1355ac2a210463d5cfaadc7ce9b06675b2b[January 29, 2017].

<Ciro Santilli> found this image and others during his research for <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain>{full} by searching for image fingerprints on every transaction payload of the blockchain with a script.

The image was uploaded by <EMBII>, co-creator of the <cool data embedded in the bitcoin blockchain/AtomSea & EMBII> upload mechanism, which was responsible for a large part of the image <inscription (Blockchain)>[inscriptions] in the <Bitcoin blockchain>.

The associated message reads:
> Chiharu \[<EMBII>'s Japanese wife\] and I found this little yellow robot while exploring Chicago. It will be covered by tar or eventually removed but this tribute will remain. N 41.880778 E -87.629210
This is one of <Ciro Santilli>'s favorite AtomSea & EMBII uploads, as it perfectly encapsules the "medium as an art form" approach to blockchain art, where even non-novel works can be recontextualized into something interesting, here depicting an opposition between the ephemeral and the immutable.

At https://twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1615389973343268871 <EMBII> announced that he would be giving off shares of that image on <Sup!? (Bitcoin-based social media)>, a <Bitcoin>-backed <NFT> system he was; making. In December 2023, he gave some shares of the robot to <Ciro Santilli>.
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{title=2010 <Wayback Machine> archive of https://web.archive.org/web/20101230033220/http://starwarsweb.net/[starwarsweb.net]}
{description=
This website was used as one of the <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>, a covert system the <CIA> used to communicate with its assets. More details at: <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>{full}.

<Ciro Santilli> had some <Ciro Santilli's naughty projects>[naughty OSINT fun] finding some of the websites of this defunct network in 2023 after he heard about https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/[the 2022 Reuters report on the matter], which for the first time gave away 7 concrete websites out of a claimed 885 total found. As of November 2023, Ciro had found about 350 of them.
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{title=2010 <Wayback Machine> archive of https://web.archive.org/web/20101230165001/http://noticiasmusica.net/[noticiasmusica.net]}
{description=
This is another website that was used as one of the <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>. This website is written in <Brazilian Portuguese>, and therefore suggests that the <CIA> had assets in <Brazil> at the time, and thus was spying on a "fellow democracy".

Although <Snowden>'s revelations made it extremely obvious to the world that the USA spies upon everyone outside of the <Five Eyes>, including fellow democracies, it is rare to have such a direct a concrete proof of it visible live right on the <Wayback Machine>. Other targeted democracies include <France>, <Germany>, <Italy> and <Spain>. More details at: <cia 2010 covert communication websites/USA spying on its own allies>.
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\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWL7l-5r1a4]
{title=How I found a <Star Wars> website made by the <CIA> by <Ciro Santilli>}
{description=Slightly edited VOD of the talk <Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli> about the <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>.}
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\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/Diagram_of_the_fundamental_theorem_on_homomorphisms_with_subtitles.svg]
{title=Diagram of the <fundamental theorem on homomorphisms> by <Ciro Santilli> (2020)}
{description=
Shows the relationship between <group homomorphisms> and <normal subgroups>.

Used in the <Stack Exchange> answer to https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/776039/intuition-behind-normal-subgroups/3732426#3732426[What is the intuition behind normal subgroups?] One of <articles>{full}.
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{title=<Spacetime diagram> illustrating how <faster-than-light> travel implies time travel by <Ciro Santilli> (2021)}
{description=Used in the <Stack Exchange> ansewr to https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/13001/does-superluminal-travel-imply-travelling-back-in-time/615079#615079[Does faster than light travel imply travelling back in time?]. One of <articles>{full}.}
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\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/C++_Heap_vs_BST_vs_hash_map_insert_time.png]
{title=Average insertion time into heaps, <binary search tree> and <hash maps> of the <#C++ standard library> by <Ciro Santilli> (2015)}
{description=Used in the <Stack Overflow> answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6147242/heap-vs-binary-search-tree-bst/29548834#29548834[Heap vs Binary Search Tree (BST)]. One of <articles>{full}.}
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{source=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6147242/heap-vs-binary-search-tree-bst/29548834#29548834}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84ig5cih4kI]
{title=<Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in two minutes by Ciro Santilli>}
{description=Quick and direct explanation of the statement of the <BSD conjecture> for people who know basic university mathematics. This is one of the <Millennium Prize Problems>, and you will get a million dollars if you can solve it! This therefore falls in the <Simple to state but hard to prove> of <Ciro Santilli>'s <the beauty of mathematics> aesthetics.}
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{title=Top view of an open <Oxford Nanopore MinION>}
{description=This is <Ciro Santilli>'s hand on the <Wikipedia> article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Nanopore_Technologies[]. He put it there after working a bit on <Oxford nanopore river bacteria>{full} :-) And he would love to document more experiments like that one <Videos of all key physics experiments>{full}, but opportunities are extremely rare.}
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A quick <2D continuous AI game> prototype for <reinforcement learning> written in <Matter.js>, you can view it on a separate page at https://cirosantilli.com/_raw/js/matterjs/examples.html#top-down-asdw-fixed-viewport[]. This is a for-fun-only prototype for <Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games>, <C++> or maybe <Python> (for the <deep learning> ecosystem) seems inevitable for a serious version of such a project. But it is cute how much you can do with a few lines of <Matter.js>!

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Mostly <video games> of course.

First when he was really young, about 5, Ciro played a lot of <NES>, but he doesn't remember things from that era very well. Contra, Ninja Turtles, Battle Tanks, Duck Hunt, and some modern "real world jet" top to bottom rail shooter (TODO identify) are definitely some of the games he clearly remembers playing, see also: <image Five year old Ciro Santilli playing NES on a joystick>. <Nintendo hard> was truly a thing back then.

As an honorable mention, Ciro remembers his teenage/young adult neighbours in <Jundiaí> playing some <DOS> games on their computer, notably there was a 3D racing one. This must have been around 1995/1997, so using some of the very earliest <GPUs>. Those games felt so incredibly advanced, including the required setup to play them, which required some <command-line> commands. It felt like some kind of black magic! But Ciro didn't really play them however.

Ciro then skipped the <SNES> and handhelds, which he played only through friends because he <Ciro Santilli's cheapness>[was cheap] (but also because Brazil is a poor country remember, and imports are pretty expensive). He clearly remembers playing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_World[Super Mario World] for the SNES and <children cartoons Ciro Santilli liked to watch>[Pokemon on friends' Gameboys] of course.

Ciro then went straight to 5th generation with the <Nintendo 64> in 1994 which his parents bought for him during a trip to the <United States>. Once again, because he was cheap, the only game he bought was <Super Mario 64>, which likely came with the console? He played that game to death.

Then came <Ocarina of Time>, which blew everyone's minds, and Ciro would go to Blockbuster to rent it for the weekend, and again play to death with his friends. You had to arrive early at Blockbuster to rent it, otherwise other people would rent all copies!!!

The only time Ciro got robbed as of 2020 was when an older teenager stopped his bicycle in front of Ciro and took his rented Golden Eye 64 copy away from his hand, and run off. Poor drug addict.

Ciro always felt that the PS1 had a much uglier aesthetics than the N64, and didn't like the console. Playing a bit of <Final Fantasy VI> on his memory did stick deeply to his mind however. Ciro later played all good PS1 RPGs on emulation during <University of São Paulo> during amazing solitary nights.

And on the PC, Ciro was particularly touched by <Age of Empires II> and <Diablo II>.

As a young teenager Ciro would also play <Counter-Strike> with his friends at LAN houses. Playing that game would make Ciro extremely anxious, his hands got all cold, and it was a lot of fun.

After this Ciro grew up and notice that the only fun game is that of becoming <Ciro Santilli's selfish desires>[become rich and famous] in the real world.

This explains however Ciro's <tool-assisted speedrun> interests.

Outside of video games, Ciro got midly addicted to <Magic: The Gathering> in his early teens.


Games young Ciro Santilli played

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If <Ciro Santilli> weren't a <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[natural born activist], he chould have made an excellent <intelligence analyst>! See also: <Being naughty and creative are correlated>{full}.
* <Stack Overflow Vote Fraud Script>
* <GitHub> makes Ciro feel especially naughty:
  * <All GitHub Commit Emails>: he extracted (almost) all Git commit emails from <GitHub> with <Google BigQuery>
  * https://github.com/cirosantilli/test-many-commits-1m/[A repository with 1 million commits]: likely the https://www.quora.com/Which-GitHub-repo-has-the-most-commits/answer/Ciro-SantilliI[live repo with the most commits as of 2017]
  * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20099235/who-is-the-user-with-the-longest-streak-on-github/27742165#27742165[An 100 year GitHub streak], likely longest ever when that existed. It was consuming too much <server> resources however, which led to GitHub admins manually https://web.archive.org/web/20151021135921/https://github.com/cirosantilli/[turning off his contribution history].
  * https://github.com/cirosantilli/test-octopus-100k[A repository with a 100k commit Git octopus merge]. Now that is a true https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/314215/can-a-git-commit-have-more-than-2-parents/377903#377903[Cthulhu merge].
  * https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1718[500 on adoc infinite header xref recursion]: that was fun while it lasted

Outside this website:
* https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong


Ciro Santilli's naughty projects

If you <don't be a pussy>[are a pussy and work a soul crushing job], this is one way to lie to yourself that your life is still worth living: do one cool thing every day.

Find a time in which your mind hasn't yet been destroyed by useless work, usually in the morning before work, and do one thing you actually like in life.

Work a little less well for you boss, and a little better for yourself. <Ross Ulbricht>:
> I hated working for someone else and trading my time for money with no investment in myself
Selling <drugs> online is not advisable however.

Even better, try to reach an official agreement with your employer to work 20% less than the standard work week. For example, you could work one day less every week, and do whatever you want on that day. It is not possible to push your passion to weekends, because your brain is too tired. "You keep all non-company-related IP you develop on that time" is a key clause obviously.

On a related note, good employers must allow employees to do whichever the <fuck> "crazy projects", "needed refactorings or other efficiency gains" and "learn things deeply" at least 20% of their time if employees want that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%25_Project[]. Employees must choose if they want to do it one day a week or two hours per day. One day per month initiatives are <bullshit>. Another related name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_hour[genius hour].

Highly relevant on this topic: <video What Predicts Academic Ability? by Jordan B Peterson (2017)>.

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlAfI91cZ8]
{title=I did it for me, Skyler}
{description=Pursuing a dream part time can make you feel afraid and tired. But at least, you will feel alive.}

Maybe you will be fired, but long term, having tried, or even succeeded your dream, or a <the side effects of ambitious goals are often the most valuable thing achieved>[one of its side effects], will be infinitely more satisfying.

The same goes for <school>, and maybe even more so because your parents can still support you there. Some <Gods> who actually followed this advice and <I'd rather starve>[didn't end up living under a bridge]:
* <George M. Church> "\[We\] hope that whatever problems... contributed to your lack of success... at Duke will not keep you from a successful pursuit of a productive career." Lol, as of 2019 the dude is the most famous biotechnologist in the world, those "problems" certainly didn't keep him back.
* <Freeman Dyson> proved the equivalence of the three existing versions of <quantum electrodynamics> theories that were around at his time, and he has always been proud of not having a <PhD>!

  \Video[http://youtube.com/watch?v=DzC1IRYN_Ps]
  {title=<Freeman Dyson> - Why I don't like the <PhD> system (95/157) by <Web of Stories> (2016)}
* <Ramanujan>, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Srinivasa_Ramanujan&oldid=1256886210#Early_life[Wikipedia]:
  > He received a scholarship to study at Government Arts College, Kumbakonam, but was so intent on mathematics that he could not focus on any other subjects and failed most of them, losing his scholarship in the process.
* Person that Ciro met personally and shall remain anonymous for now for his privacy: once Ciro was at a bar with work colleagues casually, it was cramped, and an older dude sat next to his group.

  The dude then started a conversation with Ciro, and soon he explained that he was a mathematician and software engineer.

  As a Mathematician, he had contributed to the <classification of finite simple groups>, and had a short Wiki page because of that.

  He never did a <PhD>, and said that <academia> was a waste of time, and that you can get as much done by working part time a decent job and doing your research part time, since you skip all the <bullshit> of academia like this.

  Yet, he was still invited by collaborating professors to give classes on his research subject in one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Students would call him Doctor X., and he would correct them: Mister X.

  As a software engineer, he had done a lot of hardcore assembly level optimizations for <x86> for some mathematical libraries related to his mathematics interests. He started talking microarchitecture with Ciro's colleagues.

  And he currently worked on an awesome open source project backed by a <company>.

  At last but not least, he said he also fathered 17 children by donating his sperm to <lesbian> mothers found on a local <gay> magazine, and that he had met most/all of those children after they were born.

  A God. Possibly the most remarkable person Ciro ever met, and his jaw was truly dropped.

<Gandhi> TODO source:
> You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind


Do one cool thing every day

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* Suck at your job:
  * <Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers>
  * <Don't be a pussy>
  * <Do one cool thing every day>
* Have bad memory so you have to take notes: <Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory>
* Be a compulsive knowledge hoarder: <Ciro Santilli's knowledge hoarding>
* Seek glory over <money>: <Ciro Santilli's selfish desires>
* Try to make a carrier out of it: <OurBigBook.com>
* Be born compassionate: <Ciro Santilli's self perceived compassionate personality>
* He doesn't actually write that much, but when he does he focuses on higher impact stuff, see remarks about "He doesn't like to refresh the homepage looking for easy reputation" on <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>{full}
* Contribute in a place where it is super easy for people to give you upvotes if they like your stuff. This way, you will see the uploads, and that will motivate you to re-read your content and make it more perfect with additions and corrections.


How Ciro Santilli manages to write so much

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Internet

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Ciro Santilli's wedding

Connectome by species

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{tag=Unity-based software}
{tag=Open source software}
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This channel contains several 2D continuous simulations and explains AI techniques used.

The engine appears to be <open source>: https://github.com/Primer-Learning/PrimerTools (previously at: https://github.com/Helpsypoo/primer[]). Models are closed source however.

They have several interesting multiagent game ideas.

Claims <Unity>-based, so has the downside of relying on a non-<FOSS> engine.

Ciro became mildly jealous of this channel when he found out about it, because at 800k subscribers at the time, the creator is likely able to make a living off of it, something which Ciro thought impossible.

As of 2022 he was at 1.6M followers with only 17 videos! Of course, much of those videos is about the software and they require infinite development hours to video time ratios.

Much of this success hinges a large part on the amazing 3D game presentation.

Well done!

Created by <Justin Helps>. Awesome name.

To make things better, the generically named channel is also the title of one of the best films of al time: <Primer (2004)>.

\Video[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nsVD8VPh96w]
{title=Simulating Foraging Decisions by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMkADpvO4w[Primer] (2020)}


Primer

Primer (YouTube channel)

Dutch university

* https://startupguide.hbs.edu/people/joining-a-startup/how-to-value-your-equity-at-an-early-stage-startup/ 10%


How to value startup shares

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{tag=Unity-based software}
{tag=Closed source software}
{tag=AI training game}
{title2=2017}

Unknown real developer name, claims to be from <Canada> on YouTube channel about: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBibitesDigitalLife/about[], likely because he's a software developer and wants to keep his employer's claws away from his side project.

Appears to be <closed source> unfortunately, so not suitable for research.

<video What will happen after 100h of evolution? by The Bibites (2022)> mentions it was started five years ago, so circa 2017.

Appears to be <Unity>-based, if you download and extract for <Linux> you get files named `UnityPlayer.so`.

Author is named Leo Caussan in game credits at startup: https://www.linkedin.com/in/l%C3%A9o-caussan-560350136/[], a <Canadian> <software engineer>.

Was not very <Linux> compatible: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBibites/comments/vqk6ac/program_stalls_at_a_blue_screen/ Trying to run 0.5.0 leads to a blank screen after you click "start simulation".

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEPh6bAQVP0]
{title=What will happen after 100h of evolution? by <The Bibites> (2022)}


The Bibites

Pivot

Pivot (strategy)

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{title2=Apple's third co-founder}
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{title=The Sad Story of Apple's Third Co-Founder by ColdFusion (2022)}


Ronald Wayne

<Ciro Santilli> has felt that perhaps what is missing in 2020's <AGI> research is:
* the interface between:
  * the continuous/noisy level (now well developed under <artificial neural network> techniques of the 2010's)
  * and <symbolic AI> level AI
  The key question is somewhat how to extract symbols out of the space-time continuous experiences.
* more specialized accelerators that somehow interface with more generic <artificial neural networks>. Notably some kind of speialized processing of spacial elements is obviously hardcoded into the brain, see e.g. <grid cell>{full}

Forcing these boundaries to be tested was one of the main design goals of <Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games>.

In those games, for example:
* when you press a button here, a door opens somewhere far away
* when you touch certain types of objects, a chemical reaction may happen, but not other types of objects
Therefore, those continuous objects would also have "magic" effects that could not be explained by "simple" "what is touching what" ideas.

Bibliography:
* https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262632683/the-algebraic-mind/


The missing link between continuous and discrete AI

Micro black hole

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{title2=Mus musculus}

Bibliography:
* https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02559-9 The quest to map the mouse brain by Diana Kwon (2023)

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXEuUVkDuw]
{title=A Simulated Mouse Brain in a Virtual Mouse Body by <Human Brain Project> (2015)}
{description=Nice <brain-in-the-loop>.}


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