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asciilifeform: instead what we got was ~extremely~ specialized slightly-refined brute force.
asciilifeform: but none of these worked worth a tinker's damn and not a single chesstron written by actual chess players ever won a serious tourney
asciilifeform: incidentally it is interesting to recall that at one point ai game player folks were interested in heuristic generators and the like - mechanisms that were ~applicable across domains~
asciilifeform: (we don't, of yet.)
asciilifeform: but it is waste of time to attempt it prior to having one
asciilifeform: granted this is why i even wanted computer
asciilifeform: and lenat didn't is because he lacked sufficient jolt cola ? or why
asciilifeform: wake me up when.
asciilifeform: 'learn rules of chemistry' l0l
asciilifeform: now we have lenat's 'cyc' failed ai.
asciilifeform: parts yes
asciilifeform: *intend
asciilifeform: how do you intent to apply a statistical model to an element which NEVER recurrs ??
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so long as it isn't in an equation, ever
asciilifeform: .. all text ??
asciilifeform: (would love to be proven wrong)
asciilifeform: simply that any improvement i expect to see will not be qualitative.
asciilifeform: l0l defense
asciilifeform: correcting several MB of ocr text against original.
asciilifeform: i can apparently tell that mircea_popescu has never tried it
asciilifeform: doing this correctly is ~same amount of work as manually ocring.
asciilifeform: without proofreading.
asciilifeform: but that no one will improve on it to the point where i can throw out the original TB and be ~certain~ of no irrevocable loss.
asciilifeform: my contention is not that it is physically impossible to improve on extant ocr
asciilifeform: none of which work especially well
asciilifeform: there is elementarily not enough qualified meat alive.
asciilifeform: no srsly nobody's gonna proofread a TB of ocr.
asciilifeform: but a machine-assisted meat slave.
asciilifeform: realize that when you have more than a little meat sweat mixed in, you are no longer discussing a computer program
asciilifeform: it works except when it doesn't.
asciilifeform: self how
asciilifeform: if yours does, it is because you tweaked it
asciilifeform: proggy has nfi that shakespeare didn't mention modems.
asciilifeform: e.g., 'modern'-->'modem'
asciilifeform: think about the kind of persistend turd that one gets with ocr
asciilifeform: problem is that 'fix' is not always mechanically evident, even.
asciilifeform: (a turd on every 8th page on avg.)
asciilifeform: even for FICTION it is 99.99% accurate which is to say SHIT
asciilifeform: anyway ocr for mathematics is ~hopeless.
asciilifeform: yes! quite like this.
asciilifeform: (thing is per se almost like ocr in terms of sheer bowel-loosening turd-shedding)
asciilifeform: this is annoying but the 100x mass saving pays off.
asciilifeform: by transforming 'similar' letter into another.
asciilifeform: incidentally djvu compressor is 'too good' and makes ocr quite a bit more difficult - it sometimes INTRODUCES typos
asciilifeform: (ocr, contrary to what you've been misinformed, doesn't actually work)
asciilifeform: ain't nobody gonna ocr TB of ru diagrammed b00kz.
asciilifeform: as what?
asciilifeform: (fancy bitmap, with wavelet compression, but certainly not vector graphic)
asciilifeform: likewise i have a TB+ of scans here. these can exist as bitmap and naught else.
asciilifeform: latex doesn't survive ill-forming any better than html.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was where i started - text. and from that ended up in 'computing is braindamaged beyond repair'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sorta what the first article on my blog was about.
asciilifeform: neato
asciilifeform: how to edit ? folks get shell on the box ?
asciilifeform: trinque, mod6, et al: wikis work when folks actually bother editing..
asciilifeform: mod6: that thread wasn't even about living conditions, but about being a hermit
asciilifeform: lolk
asciilifeform: i mean 4 walls not shared with anybody.
asciilifeform: whole box.
asciilifeform: mod6: i need 4 walls.
asciilifeform: (e.g., brock pierce)
asciilifeform: mod6: this is not even wholly improbable. recall the selection criteria for dingledinity
asciilifeform: l0l!
asciilifeform: doesn't it.
asciilifeform: $s dingledine
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1491739 << same dingledine as officially represents nsa in tor ☝︎
asciilifeform bbl, meat
asciilifeform: (politruk) ☟︎
asciilifeform: btw ~every american outfit bigger than a hot dog stand has an in-house 'shari'.
asciilifeform: insurgency theatre.
asciilifeform: ^ gold
asciilifeform: ons. Tor, and our broader freedom movement, are about communities, and about how we want to interact with each other. Let's handle this situation as an example of how we want to do it right.'
asciilifeform: 'It's tempting to wonder if there's some cointelpro-style attack going on. Realistically, we likely do have the attention of governments who are well-funded to attack us. But first, this really doesn't look like a cointelpro op. The complaints come from people both inside and outside the Tor community, and I know some of them. And second, in this case it really doesn't matter. It's no excuse for not taking responsibility for our acti
asciilifeform: ^ yes it's ~that~ dingleberry
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/68bd5d9a-3dac-49f6-9c36-d2a98a459a65/?raw=true << moar miscellaneous lulz
asciilifeform: approximately.
asciilifeform: in bitcoin, it would be: if (addr == eviladdr) return fuckyou
asciilifeform: isn't it a constant-time op ?
asciilifeform: yeah but how much more cpu intensive can ONE verboten-addr make it
asciilifeform: what am i missing
asciilifeform: not really problem if each node only has to verify tx against list of length 1
asciilifeform: which
asciilifeform: or hm iirc there was some timelock thing
asciilifeform: the list of verboten eth addrs
asciilifeform: not a few hundred bytes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which is why imho you oughta have made the 'bad' addr list a few GB.
asciilifeform: reminds me, i gotta change the uv lamp in bugzapper.
asciilifeform: pabl0: speak
asciilifeform: $up pabl0
asciilifeform: holy shit
asciilifeform: where does mircea_popescu think we get homo redditicus ?
asciilifeform: if yer first 20 - different affair than last 20
asciilifeform: it matters ~which~ 20y
asciilifeform: he strangled the 2 snakes they put in his crib etc.
asciilifeform: not mircea_popescu !
asciilifeform: this has permanent effects.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i lived in a ~hole for 20 yrs.
asciilifeform: 'smell of napalm' !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: enculturated folk.
asciilifeform: or fly a suitcase to buenos aires on own propellant.