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asciilifeform: m the chapter at issue and had a motive to discuss his clandestine work. They argued that the book — which suggested that the secret operation might actually have helped further Iran’s nuclear research — was somewhat inaccurate and that it cast Sterling as a hero and the CIA as hapless.'
asciilifeform: 'The case against Sterling was largely circumstantial — there were no recorded phone conversations or captured e-mail exchanges that show that he leaked classified information to Risen — and that required prosecutors’ to delve deeply into Sterling’s work and the details of Risen’s book. By prosecutors’ account, Sterling was the only potential source who had a relationship with Risen, knew all of the information fro
BingoBoingo doesn't want to endorse any shady non-BitBet book in chan
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well, the Serena William match starts in about an hour. Australian Open semifinals. Plenty of time to find a shady book.
mircea_popescu: best write-up of a book ever, too
mircea_popescu: "But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."
adlai: "Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively complex" << my model currently consists of: the order book, the trades, my balance, my trades. can't get simpler than this, although that also means that any change gets closer to "excessively complex"
danielpbarron: i also have the sudo mastery book, although i haven't cracked it open yet
BingoBoingo: trinque: In this tome a lot of OpenBSD specific stuff, but also general good practices. M W Lucas also has a sudo mastery book as part of his security trinity.
BingoBoingo: One very useful area the book discusses is configuring sudo users
danielpbarron: i also have the book BingoBoingo recommended
BingoBoingo: trinque: Indeed. Only current through 5.4 or 5.5 but differences since are well documented. The book is good for differences versus Linux and other BSD's
BingoBoingo: trinque: Before wiping best to play with OpenBSD on some designated toy hardware. I can not recommend the Micheal W Lucas book enough.
trinque: danielpbarron: you telling christians what their book says again?
mats: i'm quoting heavily from a book that was influential in my youth.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm paying 'book bill' that isn't that much lower than mr mold
asciilifeform: mr mold's example was, if i recall, his '300/mo. book bill'
Adlai: it looked quite similar to what happened a few months back on bitfinex where the order book reported an out of date book about $20 below the current one
nubbins`: the book indeed
mircea_popescu: back in 2004, it was car after carful of people all reading a book
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that one is after nubbins` prints the fscking book and i read it
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ben_vulpes: i'm trying to get a book deal
mircea_popescu: there's a book "luxury rotary bits management" you should read.
asciilifeform: (satoshi did not go in for book-learning, it seems, esp. re: data structures, but that doesn't mean that we have to forget school) ☟︎
asciilifeform had to open a book
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this is just the kind of manual which ought to live in a 'lions book' commentary on source.
mircea_popescu: this could be in a book.
jurov: mircea_popescu: animals on book covers
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asciilifeform: (the 'galt's gulch' in the book - had an invisibility machine.)
asciilifeform: satoshi book << i have it.
BingoBoingo: These occasions only happen a few times a year. Why not take whatever scam odds a shady book offers to turn no more than 0.2 BTC into 1 BTC.
mircea_popescu: madonna's book/photo album was pretty hot
mircea_popescu: kim's book i'd buy.
CoraCrisT: so Kim Kardashian is publishing her new book/photo album called Selfie or Selfish... Amazon is selling a book with Satoshi`s posts from bitcointalk and gavin wants to hard fork bitcoin...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that scammer creativity analysis actually sounds very like soviet police doctrine, on meditation. didja get it out of some book ?
thestringpuller: davout: yea. p. much. Then VC comes in and says, "You may have this much btc on book at anytime" or I guess CFO or whatever. I dunno, I'm not an accountant.
kakobrekla: 1. otc order book is dead, 2. noone is taking offer seriously, 3. everything else is delusion
gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be identified via GPG to use the order book.
mats: https://major.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/RAS_Traceroute_Book_Format.pdf via hn
decimation: the same guy who popularized ldpc codes wrote that book, which details the mathematical idiocy of 'renewables'
mircea_popescu: derived from that popular book on "cameral mind" ?
decimation: ah I see that link only has a few pages of the book
artifexd: Book purchased.
asciilifeform: artifexd: well-thumbed copy of this right here on my desk. beautiful book, if you skip all the parts that must have been thrown in to give it a sensational/saleable 'seekoority' flavour (vignette about h4xx0rz shuffling floppies around in ch.1, mostly)
mircea_popescu: me to believe it, with trusting simplicity, just as he had long ago accepted and believed that other common book-fraud about Indians and lost hunters making a fire by rubbing two dry sticks together."
mircea_popescu: ima try and prevail upon asciilifeform to include selections in his bitcoin book to come.
ben_vulpes: reading that clements book of tall tales?
thestringpuller: Wives who keep husbands secrets to the grave are honorable creatures in my book.
cazalla: but what do you expect? you write a book on killing a rabbit, missus and i do a one liner.. "it's cute but gee, tastes good" eos
asciilifeform: not a titanic work of literature, but relevant. fella goes mad on account of getting locked up for a while with naught but a chess book.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as (i think) i told jurov & co., it is my intention to eventually write this book. if live long enough.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that book doesn't exist because o'reilly didn't publish it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: specifically in the style of the 'lions book'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for example, it will become possible to write a book about how the damn thing works.
ben_vulpes: subject of, did you ever read the book by the same title?
mircea_popescu: Discussing the role of the hype man in the book How to Rap, Royce da 5'9" describes how a hype man can contribute to a live performance: "a lot of my verses be so constant with the flow [that] I'd need somebody to help me."[4] Lateef adds: "You're gonna have to have somebody say something somewhere to give you a breath... usually it's just a matter of getting somebody to hit some line or some word in a line - that's al
davout: sgornick: an implementation detail in some older client does not count as a protocol rule in my book, if proof was needed that the 'teh-code-is-teh-spec' approach is fundamentally braindamaged, well, look no further
mircea_popescu: "Jaron Lanier is one of the world’s great polymaths. He’s a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and the author of a new book, Who Owns the Future?, published last month " ☟︎
asciilifeform: it's a comic book picture, the image
asciilifeform: i make regular trips to my university maths/physical sciences library. there is a substantial comp-sci/discretes section there. i pull out, seriously, a book, one in three, random page - a graph. for almost precisely this, the comparison between the warm and the soft.
asciilifeform: incidentally, in no holy book is it written that a pubkey is readily pinnable on a particular creature walking this earth
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://www.mcst.ru/doc/book_121130.pdf << because you asked. textbook, 'elbrus' system architecture.
decimation: surely one can connect to the order book api and determine the number of bids/asks
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: have you heard of a book called metro 2033?
Adlai: hmm, dunno. some book about assange mentioned that wikileaks was redacting sensitive info in documents from day one.
Vexual: asccilifeform, you snore like luke-jr considers the book of satoshi a mortal sin
RagnarDanneskjol: http://spacesquarterly.com/life/book-review-david-thornes-newest-collection-of-sarcastically-brilliant-emails-and-essays.html
PeterL: and how much are you putting up on S.QNTR shares to pay for this book?
asciilifeform: book-size portable terminal
asciilifeform: 'Some immediately apparent disadvantages are: ... ... I cannot read in bed. The book-size portable terminal will come later. A household may require several terminals or perhaps we may have to compromise with sin and provide a hard copy terminal after all.'
BingoBoingo: Not Xerox copies, but bad faith imitators of the book form.
decimation: he also wrote a book on renewable resources from Herr McCarthy's point of view
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see that david mackay book I recommended? He has a chapter on fountain codes
davout: you can not infer what the matching engine has seen from an order book query
adlai: where you can have an order placed/cancelled message processed by the API server, but a subsequent order book query shows that the order matcher hasn't yet seen the order
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that reminds me of huxely. Take all meaning out of a word as described in his book _Words and Their Meanings_
asciilifeform: came with a book that described approximately everything there was to know about it.
BingoBoingo: Aka the definitive Obola book
cazalla: i might be inclined to read a story/book after the act, but not before
asciilifeform: dr p (author of linked book) did design a tank shell, marketed as 'atropus', that zaps electronics of victim - but, at point blank range! idea is that tank inevitably has exposed antennae, regardless of what kind of armour it has
asciilifeform: http://pirochem.net/index.php?id1=3&category=pirophysics&author=prishepenko-ab&book=2008
asciilifeform: book was about this.
asciilifeform: which is actually more analogous to a teletype (slow, ponderous, you would not want to print a book's print run on it)
nubbins`: jurov "he hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book."
cazalla: BingoBoingo: The only environment I've ever been similarly confident with was the old "Hot Dog HTML" that was included on the web design for dummies book cd at the local library <<< lol sausage software, my uncle never shut up about these guys
BingoBoingo: The only environment I've ever been similarly confident with was the old "Hot Dog HTML" that was included on the web design for dummies book cd at the local library
mircea_popescu: wait, there's more to that than just a derpy book from a decade ago ?
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undata: counts as a fetish too in my book.
nubbins`: o and the first edition of the bird book is now sold out
decimation: asciilifeform: you might like this book http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
asciilifeform: so, the bitcoind cleanup thing is conceivably useful, because end result could be the book i asked for, and a year or so from now i (or someone else) can read it, and build rational design.
asciilifeform: phone book ?
BingoBoingo: What was wrong with excite.com and yahoo as a phone book?
jurov: the book "Listen, Little Man!" is good, too, except for wtf conclusions
jurov: nubbins` if you're ever gonna make some b-a book, these reich images are very fitting
asciilifeform: e-book prices << price of w4r3z still == 0. nyooz at 11!11!
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