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mircea_popescu: i've been there yo. i lived half
a year in lowell, mass. i ate half my meals in the house of professors there. i know the place, as it happens.
mats: and its nothing to scoff at. even for
a second.
mats: i know more than
a few grads that have gone on to accept offers with outfits like Palantir.
trinque: my comment was sarcastic; I'm sure there are those at MIT that can manage
a lightbulb
ben_vulpes: "Regular expressions cannot respect
a language's syntax (detect false positives short
a full parser)" << this strikes me as
a special case of the "cannot simulate
a universe without
a universe" claim.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but anyway, moocs are made for the wiki generation of broken heads, and
a necessary outgrowth from the brokedness baked in the pseudo-encyclopedism.
mircea_popescu: the scientific method exists to provide support for research BY DENYING RESEARCH. that's all it does : marks wide swaths of perfectly valid human inquiry with
a tar brush reading "STUPID SHIT WE DONT CARE LALALA"
mats: i'm headed out in
a bit to check out some MIT exhibits
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel if you wish the path analogy, moocs are like tourists : they go "to
a foreign country", spend their time between local mcdonalds and local starbucks in the "idiot foreigners" quarter.
mircea_popescu: for
a learner to learn it, it's not enough for chemistry to "be".
mircea_popescu: same must be provided for you elsewhere for your learning to be
a path.
mircea_popescu: irl, there exists such
a thing as gravity. you can't float broadly over
a path. gravity pushes you down into it.
mats: its
a relatively nice spring day in new england
gabriel_laddel: While I think that the whole submitting to
a teacher thing is important in some cases, we have 100ks of people running through e.g., introductory chemistry courses. There are only so many paths to walk.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel autodidacts are
a case of split personality
mircea_popescu: becoming something in the style of wikipedia :
a great way to batten down the ignorance of users. after
a mooc they're just as ignorant as before, but now it's much harder to fix.
mircea_popescu: they purport to be learner-driven. this is as idiotic as it gets. education works in the following stages : learner picks
a teacher TO SUBMIT TO, blindly. teacher rapes the learner. this is education.
gabriel_laddel: Let's say that you sign up for
a course. You cannot possibly learn anything interesting because they've got to execute all code in the browser, or barring that, you're aping youtube videos.
mircea_popescu: i don't see how it matters.
a school which takes 100 7yos, produces 86 dead 18 yos and 14 sane 18yos is best school.
mircea_popescu: in the "completion rate" sense, esp if ill defined, b-
a is
a failure.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "MOOCS (massively open online courses and the like) have failed due to fundamental issues with their technical perspective -
a perspective shared by nearly the entire fiat world. New frontiers have opened, Masamune provides
a technical foundation for mission critical programmes of the future."
mircea_popescu: funny that all the west knows of
a millennium of craftsmanship perfection and perhaps the matrix for all human accomplishment is "but which was the bad one".
ben_vulpes: i think it's
a note for people reading via the repository browser
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel "If you're reading this on github there is
a more attractive HTML version here." but "here" IS on github. subdomain.gutrot.io
mircea_popescu: no need for
a knote. who knowsn knowsn and who doesn't know better go suck some cocks to find out.
mircea_popescu: craftsman allowed to put
a history mark in there, <hr /> is quite reasoanble actually.
ben_vulpes: if you want to, deliniate with an <hr /> and
a note.
trinque: ben_vulpes: strictly speaking it's not, except to answer the question "were these supposed to come from
a different address?"
mircea_popescu: i don't get why you'd do anythin other than
a db import
trinque: I'll just add
a "from" address column, which is always the same for new bundles, but will be the old address for these
ben_vulpes: the block in which
a deed was published is actually important
mats: is there
a direct equivalent for docview in vim?
ben_vulpes: buuh you and his popescuity have
a better handle on the thing
trinque: regendering << what
a time to be alive
gabriel_laddel: "
A single procedure call being all that is necessary to bundle the entirety of the (possibly heavily modified) sources into
a redistributable bootable USB stick installer or network download. Coupled with meaningful extensibility, the unsophisticated interests that have taken ahold of the bureaucratic process of all linux distributions are bypassed. Imagine hunting down 1000s of individuals distributing
a less crapp
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: i was under the impression you were in the process of curating
a distro, was i mistaken
mats:
a shit tsunami of tcpip.sys bugs lies in wait for server 2003 EOL
mats: windows server 2003 EOL in under
a hundred days
cazalla: RE: collapse and motor vehicles, seriously now, ya'll want
a dirt bike, what fucking use is
a car going to be? dirt bike can go anywhere
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=25-03-2015#1069268 << for the record I was not attempting to "pass off" anything, but rather clearly define what it is that I'm talking about. I'm rather happy to have second-guessed that decision because the correct answer is that the lordship isn't clearly defined outside of what has been posted to trilema and as one who isn't
a lord I have no buisness calling it anything other
☝︎ the_scourge: gabriel_laddel: don't need to up me every 30min i'm just lurking on
a rainy morning. plus i've got
a bunch of coding do to so i won't want to have voice ... i'll end up chatting too much :)
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you seriously thinking of implementing
a sane pgp ?
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2015 01:11:43; Chillum: the tech has improved only
a little(mostly optimizations) since machine learning was invented
Vexual: has anyone actually found
a pencil small enough to mark one?
mircea_popescu: <Chillum> aw crap just dumped an ashtary on my keyboard and naken body << proof wikipedia is
a nudist colony.
Chillum: 2 AA at that level of draw will last near
a week
decimation: it strikes me that it would be desirable to operate
a node under
a 'wot signature'
mircea_popescu: "In fact if an attacker waits until he sees another block on the network, the attacker can be sure that
a majority of hashpower is now working on successors to that already published block, and not the one the attacker has kept hidden. The result is not
a toss-up, but
a distinct advantage to the honest nodes who have published their blocks already. "
menahem wonders if we could get
a quick lesson on modern chains of command compared to medieval structures ?
mircea_popescu: (british-german rivalry goes back
a long time. as long as there was
a germany, really.)
mircea_popescu: the later imperially-ambitious english retconned
a bunch of shit into their record
decimation: well, my understanding is that in early english monarchy that the king was more of
a 'first amoung equals' rather than 'strict commander'
decimation: lord/duke/baron whoever knows the score, king trusts him to keep
a handle on things
mircea_popescu: they didn't even speak
a mutually comprehensible idiom.
mircea_popescu: pay
a lot to gain very little vs pay nothing to gain whatever you take for yourself. hmm....
mircea_popescu: decimation this is an angle alf does not wish to see (deliberate engineer's blindness), but in fact compare the afore-mentioned weev with the unfortunate da prosecuting. is weev
a lazy bum ? yes. did the poor da work butt off through law scool ? yes. still not paid debt ? yes.
decimation: asciilifeform: was it
a home depot? I've had exactly the same experience
mircea_popescu: decimation it means, "try and leech as much as you can off the young and impressionable females before
a determined and disinterested young male gores you."
mircea_popescu: and so
a position "of power" was
a terrible curse no one wanted.
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem with
a "democracy", aka representative democracy aka people's soviet is that the victory is always to the fearless.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 since you use the web platform andso prolly don't have
a local log.
Guest64542: ok I see that there is
a record of our conversation
decimation: re: the gray journal: vintage moldbug > "Of course, they can't do much. You can't submit to the gray journal. There is no formal review process. You simply have to know someone who knows someone who... and who is on the end of this chain? Five or ten very ordinary people, with no particular expertise in anything, perhaps
a BA in some science or other. Who happen to have gotten themselves assigned, through whatever feat of
mircea_popescu: i like
a challenge as much as the next fellow, i guess.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 as far as i'm concerned, there's
a crowd of silly people somewhere on the web that tricked
a dc into bankruptcy. yes.
Chillum: like
a movie by some twisted director that keeps you watching in abject confusion/horror
mircea_popescu: but seriously, they're total fucking idiots. i even had
a lengthy comment explaining to the derp in charge how to salt and hash
Chillum: is this like that guy who used
a college network to download shitloads of public domain but held by private companies court records?
mircea_popescu: turned into
a service for folks too poor to afford
a lawyer.