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asciilifeform: a problem is mp-complete if its solution requires being mircea_popescu !
asciilifeform: and what's a bitcoin watering hole?
asciilifeform: skinner did not have nn, he instead taught pigeon to fly a rocket bomb. and did not ask the pigion how he did it, also.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:33:11; *: adlai would not be surprised if there isn't [yet] a way to translate alphago's "learning" to human go terms
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:22:55; asciilifeform: mats: as i understand, 'alphago' is a corporate operation, with many folks involved, all over the pay scale.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller notreally. it's just a dude that expects computers to be metaphysical objects not made of discrete parts.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: "In Internet slang, a luser (sometimes expanded to local user; also luzer or luzzer) is a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nice epitaph for heroin addict. << Note the shared self destructiveness of the illnesses. To be a "user" is to plot a fatal course.
mircea_popescu: "he was a user, he never cared, which is the point."
thestringpuller: "They shouldn't have to care. They're users. The entire point of being a user is not having to care."
thestringpuller: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/45xz0s/hi_im_a_user/ << "Consumers have come to expect" in the wild.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the lulzy part is that my misfired 5b played a part in this
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking thing there. "some people have no theorems to prove ; most people have no friends that'd know a proof"
adlai: if you're better at quantifying how much sense a market's making to you, than other traders, then you stand to earn more, more often, than them.
adlai: on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everycipher drops to mostly
mircea_popescu: most people just scream into a void.
mircea_popescu: which is a peculiar weird of the us/canada.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:03:19; asciilifeform: that'd be a global plague, affecting all fat & comfortable folks everywhere ?
mircea_popescu: jurov "they don't succeed at making money, but that's secondary - they succeed at feeling like a trader".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, i'm not a mircea_popescu , and i design and build out of materials that i can have , rather than what i would have if i were a mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: (pretty sure 'squid' still requires shaving heads, a mm or so max)
mircea_popescu: but then you don't want to be a mouse.
mircea_popescu: you'll never have a good laptop. it is not possible.
mircea_popescu: it is not a way to live.
asciilifeform: because unlike mircea_popescu , i do not have a mobile aluminum dirigible cabin.
mircea_popescu: much like say a social worker would be "oh, this solution doesn't provide work for enough social workers"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: being able to build anything whatsoever room-scale is a 'not for poorfag' thing
asciilifeform: jurov: shielding a cm^2 thing is cheap?
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BingoBoingo: room inside a room
mircea_popescu: which incidentally is exactly how this problem is approached profesionally, insulate a room.
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asciilifeform: which is why you can 'hear' a pc keyboard from 30+ metres.
asciilifeform: presently there is a predictable row/column scan pattern
asciilifeform: jurov: it is possible to make a trivial mod that obviates the need for shielding the scan matrix
asciilifeform: a replacement controller pcb for ibm keyboard that does 'toslink' instead of ps/2, i would buy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't 'doesn't radiate' if you need a terminator plugged with normal copper, that does
mircea_popescu: terminators are like a coupla k's each
jurov: solder a photodoiode
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, you CAN put a heavy item on it.
mircea_popescu: i suspect that's the operational difference. yes you can't really bend sharply a dtvi cable.
asciilifeform: and no consumer ever repairs a cable, wtf
asciilifeform: 'takes well to damage' is not a thing
asciilifeform: i am speaking of: why the everliving fuck is the gpu connected to the lcd with anything other than a single strand of fiber.
asciilifeform: at any rate, preet is not a playing character, but a reflection of lizard will. a freisler.
mircea_popescu: and is consequently even more of a heel than his father could ever have been
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: He seems like a clear Senate veto for his history of persecuting elected officials. More likely he'll be the Bernie Sanders Attorney General
asciilifeform: perhaps a 50% opendefecation rate is achievable before next election!
BingoBoingo: But it's normal for people dying of natural causes in their sleep to struggle a bit.
BingoBoingo: Young for a Justice of the Surpreme COurt
BingoBoingo: Guess this is the Classi, with a dick on the C fucking the a in the assi, version of zipping self into duffelbag in the tub
mircea_popescu: "Scalia was found with a pillow over his head wearing unwrinkled pajamas (archived). " o.O
asciilifeform pictures some usg pit developing a grease, of snot-like consistency, to fluoresce in rf, to slather on victim's lcd while he sleeps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: realize that this would be a greater marvel than washington building a magical ray to give us both ballsack cancer
mircea_popescu does a little dance of being a rightful asshole.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the other consideration is that JUST LIKE WITH a cipher... there could be hidden key in there.,
asciilifeform: would work, but a bit thin
mircea_popescu: one should probably just make a cd based filter
asciilifeform: also one can make a 'poorfag' version using pcb vias
adlai has been trying to hook up a captcha solver so he can stop handspamming it
kakobrekla: anyway speaking of bitbet, there has been a large amount of rouge behavior on it for the past ~2 weeks
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-02-2016#1406236 << on a "for phun not money" thing ☝︎
asciilifeform: rather, it was that idiots at a certain point became able to hook up chessatron to game servers and ruin the game.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> yes, if it were a personal work of brin the younger, i would not be surprised re: no bets. << I'm not entirely sold on Deep Blue II electric boogaloo having been definitive for chess. Kasparov was not Undisputed in his championship at the time. His title was not recognized by FIDE.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i remember, a coupla years ago, when i first saw a live 'mazerati' << In one of the college towns I lived in there was one I'd frequently see as it bounced from parking lot to parking lot, looking more like weathered trash than other cars of similar age.
asciilifeform: adlai: iirc the sake thing originated with a certain drunken former champ
asciilifeform: is this one of those abominable things that won't move a millimetre unless i push it ??!
jurov: these wait for gopher over whispernet or what is the #b-a replacement vaporware called
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 17:20:06; ascii_butugychag: (there was a spiffy talk at shmoo, which mentioned how nn used in image recognition usually imprints on what - to a human - would be an entirely accidental cluster of pixels, and if you flip'em, it will recognize an obvious, e.g,. cat, as a refrigerator, etc)
asciilifeform: thing about nn is that this is fundamentally not a thing:
adlai would not be surprised if there isn't [yet] a way to translate alphago's "learning" to human go terms ☟︎
asciilifeform: yes, if it were a personal work of brin the younger, i would not be surprised re: no bets.
asciilifeform: mats: as i understand, 'alphago' is a corporate operation, with many folks involved, all over the pay scale. ☟︎
mats: i stumped 2.5btc, should be a good show
assbot: BitBet (S.BBET) November 2015 Statement on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Tjj2xm )
asciilifeform: i always imagined it as a big 1950s race car thing
asciilifeform: i remember, a coupla years ago, when i first saw a live 'mazerati'
pete_dushenski: unless 'lord of the brooms' cares to defend a position to the contrary
asciilifeform: for me, auto is just another expense. and a tool for doing a tedious and unpleasant chore. like broom.
pete_dushenski: as to the organic food angle, the car market is actually quite a different beast, mostly because there is no 'quality' to be had for love or money. a new mercedes will break just as readily as a new kia, just more expensively.
asciilifeform: that'd be a global plague, affecting all fat & comfortable folks everywhere ? ☟︎
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: aha k, so let's see here. 25 years ago a young couple leaves china, lebanon, russia, or the like and moves to us/canada. they proceed to find gainful employment buying or selling something or other and set about raising two children. the immigrant couple, after working diligently to put their children through university, ensuring that their kids never know physical hardship nor so much as an overd
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asciilifeform: specifically how there is no place in usa where one can 'i will pay double for non-monsanto but i don't give a fuck about 'gmo' and i sure as fuck don't want to see homeopathic crud in the shop' ☟︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: yer is different breed…just wait for the Insta posts of a millennial couple with #porsche #madeit #lifegoals #adulting"
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-02-2016#1406042 << as with all new german cars, yes. this comment on baruth's blog recently sharply sums up this arriviste betaboi phenomenon : "If you’re distraught about the Macan demo now, wait until the 4cyl comes out with a $499 lease special and a whole new segment of buyers. I can tell you from experience (I sell Audis as well) that the ‘aspirational’ luxury bu ☝︎
asciilifeform: i use it as a sort of scientific toy. picture, if you will, if you came to own a few grams of Pu
pete_dushenski: but if 'organs won't buy bulldozer', most isn't a stretch
BingoBoingo: But apparently it doesn't count as obesity anymore until a person is so fat they spread out like a pancake
trinque: hell of a mentality, where the things you do are the things you "get to" do
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BingoBoingo: A lot of insulins on that list
BingoBoingo: Same for people a few stalls down selling phones, calendars, etc
asciilifeform: if chump sends the new chump on his merry way to the crapple store, we have a scam, sure, but how is it 'mlm' ?
assbot: Logged on 12-02-2016 17:44:17; trinque: to be a simpleton... one will die either way.
adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-02-2016#1403712 << "So I believe that even my master, when he spoke of the simple, was using a rather simple concept." http://www.obooksbooks.com/2015/4115_142.html ☝︎
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mod6: i think i had to do a -rescan too
asciilifeform: (would have to laser a few million holes)