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= Ciro Santilli's Homepage {title2=三西猴的主页}

Check out: \b[https://ourbigbook.com], a that can publish from both to a multi-user \b[] dynamic website, or as a . It's like \b[ + + + <Obsidian (software)>]. Source code: \b[https://github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook].

[Sponsor me to work on this project]: 100k = 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. How to donate: {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 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 -level , , , and from perfect free 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 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 repositorieshttps://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat{ref}{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] and . 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 -level to all ages. Sponsor me at https://github.com/sponsors/cirosantilli[] starting from 1[[$]]/month so I can work full time on it. Further information: {full}. Achieving what I call "" is my .

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

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

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] | [Other accounts]

\image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/ID_photo_of_Ciro_Santilli_taken_in_2013.jpg]{height=300} \image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/Ciro_Santilli's_learn_teach_apply_logo.png]{height=300}

Besides that, I'm also a <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[freedom of speech] and <Ciro Santilli's cycling>[recreational cyclist]. Opinions are my own, but they could be yours too. .

Let's [create an educational system] with:

• no distinction between and , [students just go as fast as they can to what they really want] without stupid
• <OurBigBook.com>[fully open source learning material]
• [on-demand examinations that anyone can easily take without prerequisites]
• [granular entry selection only for space in specific laboratories] or participation in specific projects

\b[I offer]:

• online private tutoring for:

  • any university course
  • passionate younger students (any age) who want to learn university level material and beyond. Can your kid be the next or winner? I'm here to help, especially if you are filthy rich! I focus [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 , and let's see how far they can go! I will help take your child:

  • into the best
  • into the best programs
    and achieve their ambitious goals!

• educational consulting for institutions looking to improve their 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 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: {full}
• learn what is needed to do the project together with the student(s)
• publish any novel results or tutorials/tools produced online, and encourage the student to do the same (<how to teach/Let students learn by teaching>{full}, )
  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 [a proven track of explaining complex concepts in an interesting and useful way]. I work for the learner. Teaching statement at: {full}. Pricing to be discussed. Contact details at: {full}.

I am particularly excited about pointing people to the potential , my top picks these days are:

• assorted
  I am also generally interested in:
• 20th century physics, notably and
• the , and in particular [trying to look at seminal papers of a field]

\Image[https://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/895245.png?theme=dark] {height=150} {title='s amazing profile} {link=https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245} {description=Ciro contributes almost exclusively by answering question he 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}.} {disambiguate=home}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JOJYx0mmhg] {title=Introduction to the } {height=500} {disambiguate=home}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54nxjC9BWTg] {title= topics demo} {description=The allows users to "merge their minds" in a "sort by upvote"-stack overflow-like manner for each subject. This is the killer feature of . More information at: https://docs.ourbigbook.com/ourbigbook-web-topics[].} {disambiguate=home} {height=700} {width=700}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_D_5tCQgg] {title= dynamic article tree demo} {description=The feature allows any of your headers to be the toplevel h1 header of a page, while still displaying its descendants. 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[].} {height=700} {width=700}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghvlztiu6rI] {title= local editing and publishing demo} {description=With you can store your content as plaintext files in a , and then publish that to either <OurBigBook.com> to get awesome multi-user features, or as a where you are in full control. More information at: https://docs.ourbigbook.com/publish-your-content[].} {height=720} {width=720}

\Video[https://youtube.com/watch?v=j_fl4xoGTKU] {title=Top Down <2D Continuous Game> with <C++> and for by (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 [could be taken much further].} {disambiguate=home} {height=500}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-OYQatYvA] {title= tribute to dissidents by (2022)} {description=Part of <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>, see also: https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/water-margin[].} {disambiguate=home} {height=500}

\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/lenovo-thinkpad-t430-bios-hello-world.jpg] {title= T430 running a } {description=Source code: https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples[]. Ciro's is a closely related and much more important project that covers the and .} {height=500}

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`` {title= of a https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=413591[Force of Will] <Magic: The Gathering> card <inscribed (blockchain)> in the } {description=Artist unknown, uploaded December 2014. Part of {full} where maintains a curated list of such interesting inscriptions.

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

\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20220102092623im_/http://bitfossil.org/4cbb32cd27b5b5edc12d3559bdffc1355ac2a210463d5cfaadc7ce9b06675b2b/YellowRobot.jpg] {title=YellowRobot.jpg} {height=600} {description= image fully embedded in the 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].

found this image and others during his research for {full} by searching for image fingerprints on every transaction payload of the blockchain with a script.

The image was uploaded by , 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 .

The associated message reads: \Q[Chiharu ['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 '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 announced that he would be giving off shares of that image on <Sup!? (Bitcoin-based social media)>, a -backed system he was; making. In December 2023, he gave some shares of the robot to . } {source=http://bitfossil.org/4cbb32cd27b5b5edc12d3559bdffc1355ac2a210463d5cfaadc7ce9b06675b2b/index.htm} {disambiguate=index}

\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/screenshots/starwarsweb.net.jpg] {title=2010 archive of https://web.archive.org/web/20101230033220/http://starwarsweb.net/[starwarsweb.net]} {disambiguate=index} {description= This website was used as one of the <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>, a covert system the used to communicate with its assets. More details at: <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>{full}.

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. } {height=1400}

\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/screenshots/noticiasmusica.net.jpg] {title=2010 archive of https://web.archive.org/web/20101230165001/http://noticiasmusica.net/[noticiasmusica.net]} {disambiguate=index} {description= This is another website that was used as one of the <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>. This website is written in , and therefore suggests that the had assets in at the time, and thus was spying on a "fellow democracy".

Although 's revelations made it extremely obvious to the world that the USA spies upon everyone outside of the , including fellow democracies, it is rare to have such a direct a concrete proof of it visible live right on the . Other targeted democracies include , , and . More details at: <CIA 2010 covert communication websites/USA spying on its own allies>. } {height=1400}

\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/Diagram_of_the_fundamental_theorem_on_homomorphisms_with_subtitles.svg] {title=Diagram of the by (2020)} {description= Shows the relationship between and .

Used in the answer to https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/776039/intuition-behind-normal-subgroups/3732426#3732426[What is the intuition behind normal subgroups?] One of {full}. } {height=800} {disambiguate=index}

\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/Faster_than_light_implies_time_travel_diagram.svg] {title= illustrating how travel implies time travel by (2021)} {description=Used in the 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 {full}.} {disambiguate=articles} {height=600}

\Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/C++_Heap_vs_BST_vs_hash_map_insert_time.png] {title=Average insertion time into heaps, and of the <#C++ standard library> by (2015)} {description=Used in the answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6147242/heap-vs-binary-search-tree-bst/29548834#29548834[Heap vs Binary Search Tree (BST)]. One of {full}.} {height=1000} {source=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6147242/heap-vs-binary-search-tree-bst/29548834#29548834}

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84ig5cih4kI] {title=} {description=Quick and direct explanation of the statement of the for people who know basic university mathematics. This is one of the , and you will get a million dollars if you can solve it! This therefore falls in the of 's aesthetics.} {height=600}

\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Oxford_Nanopore_MinION_top_cropped.jpg/392px-Oxford_Nanopore_MinION_top_cropped.jpg] {disambiguate=index} {title=Top view of an open } {description=This is 's hand on the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Nanopore_Technologies[]. He put it there after working a bit on {full} :-) And he would love to document more experiments like that one {full}, but opportunities are extremely rare.} {height=600}

A quick <2D continuous AI game> prototype for 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 (for the 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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