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mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel but you wanted them to act on the principle of x.
assbot: Logged on 02-03-2015 18:13:59;
gabriel_laddel: simply on the principle of "fuck the system, it sucks"
gabriel_laddel: 14:16:34 BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
gabriel_laddel: it was quite clear in '43 that third reich would fall apart << is this some bit of original research ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell
gabriel_laddel argentina has a fixation on electing newspaper men. mitre, frondizi, etc.
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed scanner sometime.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel thgat the adults are not going ot be happy.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel i sent her an email. iron a shirt in case shows up.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:14:45;
gabriel_laddel: can you predict exactly what a WoT enabled world will look like?
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel i dunno, i dun tend to spy on people writing code that much, i'm prolly the most ignorant in the room on that score.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel it occurs to me the templeos guy is kinda high iq
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:13:09;
gabriel_laddel: my point is that science does not advance "at random"
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel there are two threads here. one is "thiel is dumb". this is not being entertained. the other is, "thiel's uneducated". this is my position.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
gabriel_laddel i just parsed it as "a weird way to say mountebanks"
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:11:21;
gabriel_laddel: It took 3 generations of masters to produce Leonardo
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel actually moocs are the superlative american college.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel or what they are. or how to look for them. essentially he's a girl that'd like to fuck but never heard of clothes, or make-up or going out.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:05:50;
gabriel_laddel: "measuring the fucking crystals" << "MPEX is just a bitcoin security exchange, just like any other bitoin security exchange"
decimation:
gabriel_laddel: who was the 'herri seldon' who foresaw the development of leonardo?
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel the problem isn't exactly of the equipment. the problem is that if you make new equipment, you don't know if you're measuring the new equipment vs the old equipment or an actual effect.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel string theorists are a lot like freudian psychanalists. the better ones follow the lieberman line.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 01:05:16;
gabriel_laddel: Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. that I belive is our basic function: to develop altenatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel if you got a purpose in mind, you need a tool not a child.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 00:34:18;
gabriel_laddel: The things these VCs fund are simply /strange/
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: Could also be called yacht or pile of hookers induced brain atrophy
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: When you make your fortune on stupidity, the cocaine you can afford makes you liek the stupidity
BingoBoingo: *
gabriel_laddel [redated] has left #bitcoin-assets ("Killed buffer")
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell
gabriel_laddel Maybe consider less descriptive quit messages?
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: Our confusion is Chinese recreation
Stunna:
gabriel_laddel: yup it definitely could
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: As I understand it now you are totally requesting and escrow service where I would have to recieve BTC on your behalf
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: The thing is I don't like doing the escrow thing. To discourage that I charge too much to make the choice of myself as an escrow economical
BingoBoingo:
gabriel_laddel: You want the hotel article
thestringpuller:
gabriel_laddel: this is a good country. in a world where a country betrays their soldiers, what do those soldiers do?
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel that's the plan. it won't work, but anyway.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel i specifically dispute the stance that we're trying "again". it's still the same one try, and it's still going oin magnificently.
ascii_field:
gabriel_laddel: except that they -have- a wot. just, firmly under sc4mz0r control.
mircea_popescu:
gabriel_laddel for the sake of argument, can you identify an university that closer adheres to dijk's ideas set forth in your 2nd url than b-a ?
ascii_field:
gabriel_laddel: if you're interested in the eotvos thing, absolutely must read the old threads here
ascii_field:
gabriel_laddel: schwartz actually experimented with cleaning it up and submitting as proper latexed paper to journals