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a111: Logged on 2015-02-22 05:59 mircea_popescu: is shamir still working on those light machines ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc we had the thread, in '13 even
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, but unlike , say, egyptian mult, barrett doesn't have the appeal of simplicity or obvious correctness.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been laying it out on paper since he posted. any way i cut it, thus far, it costs moar than the classical .
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 18:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713471 << and be part of an actual car (submarine-hellicopter) with the generator in the trunk and the bitchez sunning themselves on teh roof ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Herring
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Kalachik
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Karasik
asciilifeform: aha it's the thing described in mircea_popescu's 'and then newton sat down to write 3 laws...' article
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Dunno
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: (translate <source language> [to] <target language> <text>) -- Returns <text> translated from <source language> into <target language>.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you just described our existing divtron aha
asciilifeform: other observation , gleaned from mircea_popescu and then from knuth -- can modularly ~add~ inside karatsubatron
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 20:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713497 << man your answers are terrible! what happened to "yes, our current item is O n^3 log n ?" or "no, our current item is n log n" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know that aerogel ain't a maxwell's demon, lol
a111: Logged on 2015-01-18 21:18 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: head-worn displays are considered, by usg, to be key military tech (all existing manufacturers of serious - i.e. svga and above units - supply usg exclusively)
asciilifeform half-expected mircea_popescu to say that he already had owned aerogel dildo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily enough there is a monument to this aluminum right here . washington obelisk has a top, 'priceless' pyramid of al
asciilifeform: i can picture it. and specifically what mircea_popescu meant, re 'craftsmanship' tech as opposed to industrial/scalables
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 19:21 mircea_popescu: way the fuck cheaper socially than my stricter "i will only have children in a society where i get to decide if they live or die"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, the flip is happening Great Again!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nonsensical-populist. << And not Pantsuit took over the party he founded
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only fucked jefferson, but slept in his bed, did his paperwork.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whole thing is more or less the customary english clickfarm, but with order of magnitude less pantsuit (e.g. instead of clitler pieces, 'magnify yer tits' etc )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there were some zundapps still on the road when asciilifeform was a boy, in orcistan
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo the bmw r75 will do ice. << Still requires skill
shinohai: AH THE RELIANT ROBIN mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: lol, in usia only very poor and very rich get steak
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It transformed into "Crossover" craze. iirc pete_dushenski has a blog on this. ☟︎
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an article re why stopped
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, after the millionaire show and a few other mega jackpots the game shows transitioned to "reality tv" which at first had prizes and then simply came with attention and opportunity to make own fortune or peril
asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: ( i can already hear mircea_popescu going 'hahah, mod 0' )
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> superficially it seems like omfg lotta money ; but not so bad. people can afford to make eg icecube trays that retail for 3 bux ie cost a quarter each. how many of those sell ? 10k if you're lucky. << /me read as "lotto money"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> run of the mill pantsuit idiocy, but then suddenly "Es que en Rumanía todos se llaman Mircea Popescu. ¿Sabes?" << LOLOLOLOL
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the race is a fuzzy thing to begin with, if the cars can be arbitrarily altered
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm satisfied that it holds, as written. in re knuth, turned out that i was thinking of the 'addition chains' method of mod-exp
asciilifeform: and ftr mircea_popescu your algo takes at least N times more cycles than the classical.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 23:11 mircea_popescu: 2. a fine example of how "i work for the web man" rots the brain, is that in an implementation of the above discussed mod-distributiver, the "common" consensus impulse would be to add a test, make sure the list elements respect the condition of <modulus. this however is very much the wrong thing ; and it is a tmsr-graduate level question to explain why and wherefore.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 23:12 mircea_popescu: and finally 3. the item there described is not exactly a function. it rather something i'd call a mechanism, a discrete item that does a fully defined thing. as we're looking more and more through ada eyes and constant time things and so on, a study of these mechanisms as an distinct category will prolly be useful. somewhere between conway's cells and commandline utils, they are.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: silver tarnishes and has abysmal mechanical properties and why
asciilifeform: but actually congrats to mircea_popescu for reinventing 2 separate knuth algos.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the kochian table approach
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all we got atm for mod is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-12#1712980 . nothing moar. ☝︎
asciilifeform: and if mircea_popescu writes one -- i dun care if in fortran, cobol, malbolge, whichever, so long as it's something resembling a proggy -- i promise to read.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> "it" in 3 is mod ? or what ? asciilifeform> aha mod asciilifeform> i was speaking specifically of the division algo
asciilifeform: 1) mircea_popescu describes algo for mod. 2) turns out exactly knuths's, that is in existing ffa 3) describes 'do it to each term of a+b+c in karatsuba' 4) this dun work, if it worked we would be bragging about the new 133337 recursive modular mult algo we've got
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elaborate?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the classical ffa exponentiator, for reference, looks like http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/S4dWM/?raw=true . the ~modular~ exponentiator must look like http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/AiB9t/?raw=true . however it needs 'first, steal the chicken', i.e. FZ_Mod_Mul and FZ_Mod_Square .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ruinously
mircea_popescu: Sep 12 14:43:18 * mircea_popescu has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu's keyz with perlmutter inlays
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 23:27 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im strictly going by the above "woman will do anything you wanrt provided it is what she ewas goping to do anyway". afaik, spiders do actually make variants of it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> man pizza is part. so are various vehicles (such as de-icers) and etc. << AHA
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for my enlightenment, how wouldja double-shot porcelain ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: is trying to slip into the crack between 'science, indisputable facts!' and 'can't make a sword blade out of ceramic dummy, wrong situation'?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: oxidization plays a role in the loss of steel
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: under what conditions is steel more brittle than ceramic?
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu posting from frozen wastes of pluto, where steel is brittle
asciilifeform: plox to concretize : when mircea_popescu goes to get a suit made, what kind of fabric does he specify ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would buy rollsroyce with bespoke cabin and soviet-quality engine ?
asciilifeform: would mircea_popescu accept 'bespoke' suit that in ANY way (aside from cost) falls short of mass-produced liquishit plebesuit ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 06:22 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-12#1712394 << easier to make a kbd than to make a suit. "bespoke bicycle", outside of say zagreb, is entirely "organic" scam item.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so : do they also do sandra brown for valentine's day ? << Mebbe?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: AH, well different parts known an unknowable. Local "has a chance", this is known. He could get mega sportsball bucks, but lacks papers showing doesn't suck and may even be 3/4 white.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i had nfi there were a darkskin kidz adoption demand >0 in usa << Popular in establishment hellholes like Amherst Massachussets. It's the sort fo thing you see in Ladue, Missouri (rich liberal scum), but not really in Town and Country, Missouri (Money from business interests)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: coupla GB, if represented as naked tx
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had nfi there were a darkskin kidz adoption demand >0 in usa
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: going after the clinton foundation itself?
asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: OMG
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 21:26 mircea_popescu: and the stupid whores would buy a DIFFERENT color magic marker. so it'd be yellow, then blue, then red then pink then orange. that's hjow you'd know five cocksuckers read through that copy of saussure, and the last one was orange because she stops midway
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: typical big uni in usa consists 99% by weight, of this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ritual, neh.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 21:13 mircea_popescu: the problem of "proxy for thoughalphabet" is that there's no such thing.
asciilifeform: trinque: whole problem with unix is that ALL of its abstractions are porous in exactly the way mircea_popescu described
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 20:14 trinque: mircea_popescu: it is, just thread leapt from meaning of * to omg my keyboard?
trinque: mircea_popescu: it is, just thread leapt from meaning of * to omg my keyboard? ☟︎
asciilifeform: so how would mircea_popescu formulate tar cvfz foo.tar.gz bar/baz/*.txt ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: demonstrate the ambiguity ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 19:50 mircea_popescu: i do not want results of computation to be dependent on parameters supplied at tiem fo computation. let me do cat all | grep what i want, not fucking bullshit cat all -flag -otherflag nonsense.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 19:50 spyked: mircea_popescu took the words right from my mouth. find . -name '*.txt' | xargs rm is IMHO elegant enough (decomposes into stream of files and repeated removal). then again, find is another beast on its own
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-10#1711785 << pass nada. << alright ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 19:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-10#1711759 << folks generally do not use the "wallet" abstraction/idiocy anymore than they use the "accounts" idiocy baked in. 1 address per wallet sorta deal.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-10 19:43 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-10#1711757 << you don't understand : the deprecated lib is part of th ewallet, because the mike hearn / power ranger imbeciles "updated" the db scheme of prb in order to INCLUDE a new db dependency, and one made by google, but DID NOT remove the old one.
spyked: mircea_popescu took the words right from my mouth. find . -name '*.txt' | xargs rm is IMHO elegant enough (decomposes into stream of files and repeated removal). then again, find is another beast on its own ☟︎
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-10#1711763 << yes, to fish out CHANGE addresses in trb you must FOLLOW txns trees to the unspent leaf. true pain in butt. << ah, good point. i'll make a note of these requests. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was making a 'is this privkey, generated in whatever external way, live' detector.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-09 04:40 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and yes, obviously this arrangement is a perfect match for the usg / its fiat-statist allies in south korea etcetera. because that's exactly what the socialist state proposition is, "we'll be bleeding for as long as we live and attempt to kill everyone before the air runs out". << But, bleeding is a feminist value!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and yes, obviously this arrangement is a perfect match for the usg / its fiat-statist allies in south korea etcetera. because that's exactly what the socialist state proposition is, "we'll be bleeding for as long as we live and attempt to kill everyone before the air runs out". << But, bleeding is a feminist value! ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2015-02-05 02:37 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.my-garage.spb.ru/img/238.jpg << a cryptoanalytic soldering iron.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wtf's that
a111: Logged on 2017-08-18 04:00 mircea_popescu: otherwise what, we'll be stuck in 2020 dealing with legacy yahoos ? noty.
asciilifeform: 'Suppose you recalibrate difficulty each block instead. Big whoop, so attacker drives your difficulty up 100x and now you only have to mine six days for negative returns instead of two years. So what ? You're still underwater, and once you recover he can still do it again.' ( from mircea_popescu's likbez )
asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/uK8pr/?raw=true
a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 14:50 mircea_popescu: say phf ! since you're in moscow, what's the bdsm scene like ? do they have a club ? mind doing a field report ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> srsly, there can be a 8.0 earthquake 1k miles away and it'll pass entitrely unnoticed ?! << Perhaps you were preoccupied with another jostle?
trinque: iirc mircea_popescu is up high, yeah.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that we dun have same def of the word
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:37 mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.