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<Ciro Santilli> has the power to document stuff in a way that makes using them awesome, as evidenced by his his <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[Stack Overflow contributions] (notably those in <articles>), and other online contributions.

If your project does something awesome, hiring Ciro means that more people will be able to notice that it is actually awesome, and use it.

He likes to do this in parallel to contributing new features, quickly switching between his "developer" and "technical documentor" hats.

This means of course that he will develop new features a bit slower than others, but he feel it is more valuable if end users can actually use your project in the first place.

His technique is to provide upfront extremely interactive and reproducible getting started setups that immediately show the key value of the project to users.

He backs those setups with:
* scripts that automate the setup much as possible to make things enjoyable and reproducible
* a detailed description of the environment in which he tested: which OS, version of key software, etc.
* a detailed description of what is expected to happen when you take an action, including known bugs with links to bug reports
* theory and rationale on the sections after the initial getting started, but always finely interspersed with concrete examples
* all docs contained in a Git-tracked repo, with the ability to render to a single HTML with one TOC
* short sentences and paragraphs, interspersed with many headers, lists and code blocks
A prime example of kind of setup is Ciro's <Linux Kernel Module Cheat>.

While he create this setup, he inevitably start to notice and fix:
* bugs
* annoyances on the public interface of the project
* the devs were using 50 different local scripts to do similar things, all of them semi-broken and limited. Every new hire was copying one of those local scripts, and hacking it up further.
* your crappy build / test / version control setup

Exploiting this skill, however, requires you to trust him.

When he tells to managers that he's good at documenting, they always say: great, we need better documentation! But then, one of the following may happen:
* managers forget that they wanted good documentation and just tell him to code new features as fast as possible
* they don't let him own the getting started page, but rather and expect him to try and fix the existing crappy unfixable existing getting started, without stepping on anyone's pride in the process >:-)

 This makes him tired, and less likely to do a good job.

 Good documentation requires a large number of small iterative reviews, and detailed review of every line is not always feasible.

 Too many cooks.

Ciro's passion for documentation and tooling has the effect that if you have crappy documentation and tooling and don't want them to be fixed, Ciro will end up trying to fix those tools instead of doing what you tell him to do anyways, which might lead to him quitting because he can't stand the tools, or you firing him because he's not doing the job you think I should be doing. So please, don't bother hiring Ciro if you have crappy documentation and tooling.

Psychological analysis of why Ciro has this gift: <How Ciro Santilli manages to write so much>.

Ciro often has the following metaphor in his mind:
> New discoveries are like very rough trails where you have to cut through heavy bushes (an original <research paper>).

 After a brave explorer goes through this rough path for the first time and charts it, it does become much easier for others to follow it later on, but it still requires a lot of effort to go through them, because there are still a lot of rough bushes and some parts of the map are not very clear (reading and reproducing the research paper to further advance the state of the art).

 As enough people start going through, the probability that <Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory>[someone with a bad memory] ends up walking it increases, and that person ends up pounding the earth into a https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/off-the-beaten-track[beaten track] and increasing the trail clearance of the beginning of the trail at least (<review paper>).

 There finally comes a point when even the local government starts to notice this trail is important, and pays someone to add some stone pavement and rails on the most exposed parts of the trail (<postgraduate>[post] and <undergrad> education).

 And at last, Ciro Santilli <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[comes with a bulldozer] and creates <ourbigbook.com/motivation>[an autoroute that thousands of people can cruise at high speed without any effort] (Q&A, <open knowledge> HTML websites).

Ciro's documenation obsession is partly part of his <braindumping> effort of dumping his brain into text form, which he has been doing through <Ciro Santilli's website>.

Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers

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<Ciro Santilli> has a bad memory for events that happened a medium time ago, for example in order of months/years. Especially if they are one-off things that have no relation to anything else.

For example, Ciro never remembers which places he travelled to just once, and who was in each trip! He has images of several places he travelled to in his head, and would recognize them, but he just doesn't know where they were!

Another example, Ciro was looking at the carpet at their house, and asked where it came from. His wife replied immeidately: from Bercy shopping quarter in Paris about 10 years ago, and you took it on your back for a long walk until we could find the bus back home because we were concerned it wouldn't fit in the train!

The same goes for scenes from movies and passages from music, which explains why Ciro's <art> consumption focuses on innovative <discrete> "what happened" and "general gist" ideas, rather than, analog details such as colors and shapes.

Going back even further in time, Ciro starts to forget the less close friends he had, because the events start to fade away.

Paradoxically however, Ciro believes that this bad memory is one of his greatest strengths and key defining characteristics, because it leads Ciro to want to write down every interesting thing he learns, which motivated <OurBigBook.com> and his <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[Stack Overflow contributions] and his related <Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers>.

It also somewhat leads Ciro to like <physics> and <mathematics>, because in these fields you <formalization of mathematics>["can deduce everything"] from very few base principles, so if you forget them, it does not matter that much as you can re-deduce stuff over and over. Which is somewhat where the <High flying bird vs gophers>[high flying bird] attitude comes from. It is hard to go deep when you have to re-prove everything every time. But the upside is that anything that sticks, does so because it has a broad net to stick to, and therefore allows Ciro to make unusual and unexpected connections that others might not.

Ciro believes that there are two types of people, and most notably <software engineers>, which are basically data wranglers: those with bad memory and those with good memory.

Those with bad memory, tend to focus on automating and improving their processes a lot. They take much longer to do one-off specific deep knowledge tasks however.

The downside of the good memory ones is that sooner or later they will find tasks that no matter how much memory they have, they cannot solve without automation, and they will fail at those.

Also, good memory people don't enable others to join the project efficiently as much.

This dichotomy also explains why Ciro sucks at code reviews, but is rather the person who runs the interesting patches by himself and finds some critical problems that the more theoretical code reviewers missed.

If Ciro <ourbigbook.com/motivation>[had become a scientist], he would without doubt be an experimentalist, just like in this reality he is a <GDB>/runtime person rather than a "static source analysis" person. Those who have bad memory prefer to just run experiments over and over and observe system state at runtime.

Other effects of having a bad memory include:
* code duplication, or a constant fear of it at least, because Ciro forgets that some functionality exists already
* meeting aversion, because everything that is not recorded will fade away
* passion for <backward design>, because by the time a piece of knowledge learnt in school might be useful (and 99.99% won't), it will have been long forgotten

A <Quora> answer! https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-benefits-of-having-a-poor-memory/answer/Ciro-Santilli

Related: https://jakobschwichtenberg.com/about/ from <Jakob Schwichtenberg>:
> I'm a physicist and I try to write down things during my own learning process.

 In some sense, one of the biggest benefits I have over other people in physics is that I'm certainly not the smartest guy! I usually can't grasp complex issues very easily. So I have to break down complex ideas into smaller chunks to understand it myself. This means, whenever I describe something to others, everyone understands, because it's broken down into such simple terms.

On <C2 wiki>, therefore it cannot be wrong https://wiki.c2.com/?QuasiGreatTeacher[]:
> Some people have learning disabilities, \[... bullshit ...\]. A lot of classic spiritual texts have been produced this way. Basically, the stupidest but most dogged disciple, if he has a neurotic habit of writing things down, will make the best teacher for the third and subsequent generations.

Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory

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These are people which Ciro never met personally, and who might not know that Ciro exists, or might never had any direct 1-2-1 online contact with Ciro, but Ciro <religion>[is convinced are his brothers in some other dimension] due to how many opinions or behaviours he feels they share:
* <Dan Dascalescu> due to articles such as:
 * <English as a universal language by Dan Dascalescu (2008)>
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/9oujwf/why_archiving_old_threads_is_a_bigger_problem/ see also <online forums that lock threads after some time are evil>
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20130922192354/http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/reviews/online_services/web_page_archiving see also <web archiving>
 * random posts on <OpenStreetMap>, and about <China>: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/29300/legality-status-of-mapping-activity-in-china?page=1&focusedAnswerId=42167#42167
* <kenorb> see also <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>
* <Gwern Branwen>
* From the <LLM> <Mathematics> scene, especially solving <Project Euler> problems openly online:
 * https://x.com/roanoke_galespcialy
 * https://github.com/prayer-for-the-future-gods

Some other <idealists> that are a bit further out but with some similarities:
* <Sylvain Poirier>

<Ciro Santilli> also things of those people as being part of his <108 Stars of Destiny> troupe.

Ciro sometimes ponders why is it so hard to find people online that you truly love and admire. Maybe it is for similar reasons why it is also hard in the real world: the great variety of human interest, and the great limitation of our attention spans. But online, where we have access to "everyone", shouldn't it should be easier? Not naturally finding such people is perhaps <How to teach/Group students by interest, not by age>[one of the greatest failings of our education system].

Ciro Santilli's e-soulmates

I shouldn't be doing this on funded <OurBigBook> time which is until the end of May, but I was getting too nervous and decided to start a casual job search to test the waters.

In particular I want to see if I can get past the HR lady step without toning down my online profiles. If nothing works out for the next round I'll be hiding anything too spicy like:
* prominently seeking funding for <OurBigBook> on my <LinkedIn> profile
* <CIA 2010 covert communication websites> references. This will be my first job hunt since I have published that article. Wish me luck.
* https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/gay-putin[gay Putin] profile picture on <Stack Overflow>
Another interesting point is to see if French companies are more likely to reply given that <Ciro Santilli> studied at <École Polytechnique> which the French worship.

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I'm looking in particular either for:
* <machine learning>-adjacent jobs in companies that seem to be doing something that could further <AGI>, e.g. <automatic code generation> or <robotics> would be ideal
* <quantum computing>
* <systems programming>, which is what I actually have work experience with

I spent the last two weeks doing that:
* one week browsing everything of interest in <London> and <Paris> and sending applications to anything that seemed both relevant and interesting. Maintaining an application list at: <Job application by Ciro Santilli>{full}.
* one week on a very laborious but somewhat interesting take home exercise for <Linux kernel> engineer a <Canonical (company)>, makers of <Ubuntu>.

 I had a week to finish 5 practical coding and packaging questions, and I tried to do everything as perfectly as possible, but I somewhat underestimated the amount of work and wait needed to do everything and didn't manage to finish question 4 and missed 5. Oops let's see how that goes.

 At least this had a few good outcomes for the Internet as I tried to document things as nicely as I could where they were missing from <Google> as usual:
 * I re-tested <Linux Kernel Module Cheat> and made some small improvements. Things still worked from a <Ubuntu 24.10> host (using Docker to <Ubuntu 22.04>), and I also checked that kernel 6.8 builds and GDB step debugs after adding the newly required config `CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT`, also mentioned that at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5416406/why-are-there-no-debug-symbols-in-my-vmlinux-when-using-gdb-with-proc-kcore/79598380#79598380[Why are there no debug symbols in my vmlinux when using gdb with /proc/kcore?]
 * I contributed some simple updates to https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 getting it closer to work on Linux kernel v6.8. That repository aims to keep the venerable examples from Linux kernel module book <LDD3> alive on newer kernels, and is a very good source for kernel module developers.
 * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37507320/how-to-compile-a-linux-kernel-module/79594642#79594642[How to compile a Linux kernel module?]: wrote a quick Ciro-approved tutorial
 * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6034745/dynamic-array-in-linux-kernel-module/79601790#79601790[Dynamic array in Linux kernel module]: I gave an educational example of a dynamic byte array (like std::string) using the kvmalloc family of allocators
 * <quickemu>: this is a good <emulator manager> and I think I'll be using it for <Ubuntu> images when needed from now on. I wrote:
 * https://askubuntu.com/questions/884534/how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop-on-qemu/1545712#1545712[How to run Ubuntu desktop on QEMU?]: an introductory tutorial to the software as their README is not that good as is often the case. It's hard for project authors to predict what new users want or not. This is my second answer to this question, the https://askubuntu.com/questions/884534/how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop-on-qemu/1046792#1046792[previous one] focusing on a more manual approach without third party helpers.
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/v85fmx/how_to_share_folder_between_guesthost_quickemu/[How to share folder between guest/host? (Quickemu)]: I explained how to setup a 9p mount to share a directory between guest and host
 * https://askubuntu.com/questions/496549/error-you-must-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list/857433#857433[Error :: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list]: updated this answer for <Ubuntu 24.04>. This issue comes up when you want to do either of:
 ``
 sudo apt build-dep
 sudo apt source
 ``
 which don't work by default, and my answer explains how to do it from the GUI and CLI. The CLI method is specially important for <Docker> images. Since Ubuntu doesn't offer a stable CLI method for this, the method breaks from time to time and we have to find the new config file to edit.
 * https://askubuntu.com/questions/248914/what-is-hardware-enablement-hwe/1546835#1546835p[What is hardware enablement (HWE)?]: I learned a bit better how Ubuntu structures its kernel releases for each <Ubuntu release>

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 Some of the main issues I had were:
 * <compiling Linux kernel for Ubuntu> is extremely slow. I was used to compiling for embedded system with <Buildroot>, which finishes in minutes, but for Ubuntu is hours, presumably because they enable as many drivers as possible to make a single ISO work on as many different computers as possible, which makes sense, but also makes development harder
 * my <QEMU> setup for Ubuntu was not quite as streamlined and I relearned a few things and set up <quickemu>. By chance I had recently come across <quickemu> for testing <OurBigBook> on <MacOS>, but I had to learn a bit how to set it up reasonably too

I'll make sure to add two weeks of OurBigBook work after May to make up for this.

Post OurBigBook job search round 2025

Updates / Post OurBigBook job search round 2025

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Maybe <Ciro Santilli> should do something useful and remarkable so that someone might actually want to read his biography in the first place. But hey, <effortless effort>[procrastination].

<Ciro Santilli> was born in <Brazil> in the small/medium city of <Rio Claro, São Paulo> (~200k people in 2020) in the <State of São Paulo> in 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini[AD].

The family then moved to <Jundiaí> in 1995, and then finally to <Santos, São Paulo, Brazil> in 1997.

At the age of 10, <Ciro Santilli's 10 month stay in Coventry, United Kingdom, in the year 2000>[Ciro Santilli spent 10 months in Coventry, United Kingdom, where he greatly improved his English].

After Coventry, Ciro's family went back to <Santos, São Paulo, Brazil>[Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, which made a deep impression on Ciro], until he <Ciro Santilli's undergrad studies at the University of São Paulo> in 2007.

In 2010, as mentioned at <Ciro Santilli's formal education>{full}, Ciro as admitted in a double degree program at the <École Polytechnique>, France, where he stayed until 2013. Going to France was a <mind blowing>, life changing event.

Ciro Santilli's biography

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"Water" is the name for both:
* the <chemical compound> with <#chemical formula> H\sub[2]O
* the <liquid phase> of the <chemical substance> composed of the above <chemical compound>

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Water

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

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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

Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects / 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>
* <Erdős number>

Cirocoin

Ciro Santilli's Homepage

 Home

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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 mildly 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>

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 * 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].

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 * 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].

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 * 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)>.

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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>!

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* <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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Ciro Santilli's wedding

Connectome by species

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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)>.

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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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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".

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2025-12-31	Martin-Milan 0	Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory	0		2025-07-16
2025-12-31	Martin-Milan 0	Ciro Santilli's e-soulmates	0		2025-12-25
2025-05-08	Hemant Bhandari 0	Post OurBigBook job search round 2025	1	2025-05-07	2025-07-16
2025-05-01	micwise-17 0	Ciro Santilli's biography	1		2025-07-16
2024-12-23	Sami Rifai 0	Water	0		2025-07-16
2024-09-27	pioyi 6	PyPi: the cowards took it down	0	2024-09-26	2025-07-16
2024-09-23	pioyi 6	Cirocoin	0		2025-07-16
2024-04-04	Fabiana Campanari 0	 Home	4		2025-12-02
2024-03-03	ndrw 0	Games young Ciro Santilli played	0		2025-12-13
2024-03-03	Hemant Bhandari 0	Ciro Santilli's naughty projects	0		2025-07-16
2024-03-03	Hemant Bhandari 0	Do one cool thing every day	1		2025-07-16
2024-03-03	Hemant Bhandari 0	How Ciro Santilli manages to write so much	0		2025-07-16
2024-03-03	Hemant Bhandari 0	Internet	0		2025-07-16
2024-03-03	ndrw 0	Ciro Santilli's wedding	0		2025-07-16
2023-02-12	Satoshi Nakamoto 0	Connectome by species	0		2025-07-16
2023-02-12	Satoshi Nakamoto 0	Primer (YouTube channel)	0		2025-07-16
2023-02-12	Satoshi Nakamoto 0	Dutch university	0		2025-07-16
2023-02-12	Satoshi Nakamoto 0	How to value startup shares	0		2025-07-16
2023-02-12	Satoshi Nakamoto 0	The Bibites	0		2025-07-16

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