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Author: cirosantilli

README.bigb

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Check out: \b[https://ourbigbook.com], a <personal knowledge base> that can publish from <lightweight markup> 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)>]. 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. How to donate: <sponsor>{full}.
+<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.
 
@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ Although <Snowden>'s revelations made it extremely obvious to the world that the
 }
 {height=1400}
 
+\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>.}
+{disambiguate=index}
+
 \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=

aratu-week-2024-talk-by-ciro-santilli.bigb

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 = Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects
 {scope}
+{tag=Aratu Week}
+
+This talk was presented on 24 September 2024 as part of the 2024 <Aratu Week>, a small online conference by <Brazilian> hacker interest group <Boitatech>.
 
 How to contact me: <contact>{full}
 
@@ -11,6 +14,12 @@ Links to this talk:
 {height=850}
 {source=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230033220/http://starwarsweb.net/}
 
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YpO2UfU6to]
+{title=Self-recorded presentation VOD}
+
+\Video[https://youtu.be/Z7ZAzPKjzYc?t=1505]
+{title=Presentation upload by the organizers}
+
 = Introduction
 {parent=Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli}
 
@@ -36,6 +45,9 @@ Links to this talk:
 {title2=cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites}
 {parent=Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli}
 
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWL7l-5r1a4]
+{title=Lightly edited presentation VOD}
+
 Article: <CIA 2010 covert communication websites>{full}
 
 \Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/CIA_Star_Wars_website_promo.jpg]

artificial-intelligence.bigb

@@ -1316,6 +1316,8 @@ TODO check:
 * http://julian.togelius.com/
 * https://twitter.com/togelius
 
+\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20241005224059im_/https://engineering.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_large_620_2x/public/2019-05/julian-togelius.png?h=6a0cab5b&itok=HKFEZIB_]
+
 = General Game Playing
 {disambiguate=Stanford project}
 {parent=Entity creating AI games}

biology.bigb

@@ -100,20 +100,33 @@ A cool thought: <bacteria> like <E. Coli> replicate every 20 minutes. A human re
 
 The answer is that within us, the <adaptative immune system> is a population of cells that <evolves> very quickly. So in a sense, within our bodies there is fast cell-level non-inheritable evolution happening daily!
 
-= Inate and adaptative immune system
+= Allergy
+{parent=Immune system}
+{wiki}
+
+= Innate and adaptive immune system
 {parent=Immune system}
 {wiki}
 
+= Inate and adaptative immune system
+{synonym}
+
+= Innate immune system
+{parent=Innate and adaptive immune system}
+{wiki}
+
 = Inate immune system
-{parent=Inate and adaptative immune system}
+{synonym}
+
+= Adaptive immune system
+{parent=Innate and adaptive immune system}
 {wiki}
 
 = Adaptative immune system
-{parent=Inate and adaptative immune system}
-{wiki}
+{synonym}
 
 = Lymphocyte
-{parent=Adaptative immune system}
+{parent=Adaptive immune system}
 {tag=Blood cell}
 {wiki}
 

brain.bigb

@@ -99,7 +99,17 @@ https://github.com/foambubble/foam impressive.
 
 <Open source> <Roam Research> clone.
 
-Markdown based, <Visual Studio Code> based. Template project: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-template[]. Publishing possible but not mandatory focus, main focus is self notes. TODO possible or not? https://jackiexiao.github.io/foam/reference/publishing-pages/[] and if yes how. They seem to use graphs more than trees which will complicate publication. IDs seem to be correct, unscoped from files. IDs might be correctly implemented but need to confirm. A CLI tool at: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-cli[]
+Markdown based, <Visual Studio Code> based.
+
+Template project: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-template[].
+
+Publishing possible but not mandatory focus, main focus is self notes. Publishing guide at: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/user/recipes/recipes.html#publish Related: https://jackiexiao.github.io/foam/reference/publishing-pages/[].
+
+They seem to use graphs more than trees which will complicate publication.
+
+TODO are IDs might be correctly implemented and independent from source file location? Are there any examples? https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/512
+
+A CLI tool at: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-cli[]
 
 = Forester
 {c}
@@ -123,14 +133,22 @@ Headers have open/close:
 ``
 \subtree[jms-00YG]{}
 ``
-<OurBigBook> considered this, but went with `parent=` instead finally.
+<OurBigBook> considered this, but went with `parent=` instead finally to avoid huge lists of close parenthesis at the end of deep nodes.
+
+One really cool thing is that the headers render internal links as clickable, which brings it all closer to the "knowledge base as a formal <ontology>" approach.
 
 Does not encourage human readable IDs, uses stuff like `jms-00YG`.
 
 The markup doesn't seem to have any insane constructs, you have to type out open paragraphs everywhere?! OMG, too idealistic, not enough pragmatism.
 
 Jon has some very good theory of <personal knowledge base>, rationalizing several points that <Ciro Santilli> had in his mind but hadn't fully put into words, which is quite cool.
 
+OCaml dependency is not so bad, but it relies on actualy <LaTeX> for maths, which is bad. Maybe using <JavaScript> for <OurBigBook> wasn't such a bad choice after all, <KaTeX> just works.
+
+Docs at: https://www.jonmsterling.com/jms-005P.xml Sample repo at: https://github.com/jonsterling/forest but all parts of interest are in submodules on the authors private Git server.
+
+Viewing the generated output HTML directly requires `security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy` which is sad, but using a local server solves it. So it appears to actually pull pieces together with JavaScript? Also output files have .xml extension, the idealism! 
+
 = Logseq
 {c}
 {parent=List of personal knowledge base software}

brazilian-music.bigb

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
 {synonym}
 {title2}
 
-The Portuguese term for it is "Música popular brasileira". The widely recognized Brazilian acronym is "MPB".
+The Portuguese term for it is "música popular brasileira". The widely recognized Brazilian acronym is "MPB".
 
 "Brazilian pop" and "Br-pop" are inventions by <Ciro Santilli>, which are how Ciro thinks Brazil should market it to the world.
 
-Unfortunatey "B-pop" is too ambiguous with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pop_music[British pop music], and should be avoided.
+Unfortunately "B-pop" is too ambiguous with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pop_music[British pop music], and should be avoided.
 
 = The best popular Brazilian music (MPB) of all time
 {parent=Brazilian pop}
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ The place to start is definitely <the Holy Trinity of popular brazilian music>:
 
 Non trinity songs and artists:
 
-* \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlp8iY4g--4]
-  {title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chega_de_Saudade[Chega de saudade] by Tom Jobim}
 * \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFSHg2hxbc]
   {title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Branca[Asa Branca] by Luiz Gonzaga}
   {description=Written in 1947}
@@ -82,11 +80,14 @@ Non trinity songs and artists:
   \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFN-zCSLY4]
   {title=Maluco Beleza by Raul Seixas (1977)}
   {description=From the album https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Dia_em_que_a_Terra_Parou_(álbum)[O Dia em que a Terra Parou]}
-
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antônio_Carlos_Jobim[Tom Jobim]
+
   \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNfGHhETk0]
   {title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_felicidade[A Felicidade] by Tom Jobim (1958)}
   {description=Composed for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orpheus[Black Orpheus (1958)] film. "Tristeza não tem fim, felicidade sim" (Sadness never ends, but happiness does). The movie itself is OK. Appeals to <The correlation between software engineers and Buddhism>[Ciro's Buddhist sensibilities].}
+
+  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlp8iY4g--4]
+  {title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chega_de_Saudade[Chega de saudade] by Tom Jobim}
 * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ben_Jor[Jorge Ben Jor]
 
   \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EXtwBdH2Gk]

chinese-traditional-music.bigb

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ Infinite Wikipedia instrument list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chines
 
 The playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64I_I1big7IIg5ugZzjpHGWSHHz0LrAF
 
+The best ones:
+
 \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b8hpYbwclc]
 {title=<Dream of the Red Chamber 1987> intro}
 

cia-2010-covert-communication-websites.bigb

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ This article is about <cutout (espionage)>[covert agent communication channel] w
 \Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/CIA_Star_Wars_website_promo.jpg]
 {height=700}
 
+\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>.}
+
 The existence of such websites was first reported in November 2018 by Yahoo News: https://www.yahoo.com/video/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html[].
 
 Previous whispers had been heard in 2017 but without clear mention of websites: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html

cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain.bigb

@@ -2594,11 +2594,11 @@ Not easy <Google> hits so possibly novel.
 \Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/data/bin/ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg]
 {title=<Tank Man>}
 {description=
-See also: <China>{full}.
+https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e[tx ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e], https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/458238[block 458238] (2017-03-21) via <cryptograffiti.info>.
 
-Searching for the image hash ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e leads to https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145 which links to https://cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg suggesting that this upload was made with <cryptograffiti.info>, or at least was indexed by it. But that link is not working as of 2021.
+See also: <China>{full}.
 
-https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e[tx ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e], https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/458238[block 458238] (2017-03-21) via <cryptograffiti.info>.
+Searching for the image hash ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e leads to https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145 which links to the now dead as of 2021: https://cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg[]. But 
 }
 
 \Image[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/data/bin/94e319d09fc236fb9d7a24e60af8f47ed41ca3cc01e9950c925d806153ed8aa3.jpg]

economy.bigb

@@ -200,6 +200,14 @@ The financial industry does not serve society nowhere near its magnitude (<Londo
 {parent=Bank}
 {wiki}
 
+= List of banks
+{parent=Bank}
+
+= Barclays
+{c}
+{parent=List of banks}
+{wiki}
+
 = Financial fraud
 {parent=Finance}
 {wiki}
@@ -265,6 +273,10 @@ Only being. Being, in the exact fraction of a moment where bid meets ask.
 {parent=Financial crime}
 {wiki}
 
+= Know your customer
+{parent=Money laundering}
+{wiki}
+
 = Financial crisis
 {parent=Economy}
 {wiki}