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Framedragger: ah, just that all this time i was thinking #t was making fun of wannabe-board-member derps, but the above
^ are actual quotes
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 14:58 asciilifeform:
^ winged phrase, this one, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk do you have handy a graph depicting the relation between x and e
^x ?
mod6: <+asciilifeform>
^ d00d pushing 'onerng' over FUCKGOATS, with argument that the former 'is open source, mathematically verifiable, ...drivers for all current os, even openbsd...' while the latter 'no drivers, connection using obsolete medium - serial port, limited entropy' << limited entropy?! herp.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
^ 'altalena affair' resulted in the switcheroo where the upstanding folx ( irgun et al, who held the position 'rm -rf britain' , were replaced by the internationalkomyooniti obedient muppet circus who ended up 'recognized' by said komyooniti as 'israel' << Aka. When da jooz jew'd the Jay-double-Oh-Oh-Zee
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu:
^^ sad output
BingoBoingo:
^ I rarely consult that source, but they do read social media
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 16:28 danielpbarron: i have X working with this
^ in use
a111: Logged on 2017-06-04 16:36 asciilifeform:
^ ww2-style dive bombing in philippine war
mod6: "In his paper, Pearson gave several interesting examples of the previous misuse of statistics; and he also proved that certain runs at roulette (which he had experienced during two weeks at Monte Carlo in 1892) were so far from the expected frequencies that odds against the assumption of an honest wheel were some 10
^29 to one!"
a111: Logged on 2017-06-01 17:41 asciilifeform:
^ surprisingly nonidiotic response to a popular schneierism going around at the time
mod6: yeah, they were collected on linux as such
^ a111: Logged on 2017-05-30 17:32 BingoBoingo:
^ Can lift Helo, not out of dependence, but vertically
BingoBoingo:
^ Can lift Helo, not out of dependence, but vertically
☟︎ Framedragger: never bothered to find out if there's any merit to that
^ mod6: <+asciilifeform>
^ put at the head of your main body, and see what ends up barfing << im gonna try this and see if that helps a bit more.
trinque: thread's been had a couple times,
^ mircea_popescu: it's utility is mostly for small (ie, under 10
^9 or something) factors imo
mircea_popescu: because i've had it explaining this in private : yes
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-19#1659420 goes to 1. for the same money, f(x) = 1/n
^x g(x) = 1/x converge to 1/n, which is any arbitrary value (including 0 when n=x so f(x) = 1/x
^x. nfi why this isn't evident, but anyway.
☝︎ BingoBoingo:
^ "What I did when I was six-years-old is now against the law for young men being scouted by collegiate football programs."
mircea_popescu: anyway, danielpbarron original approach, ie with limits of functionals, is imo also the correct one. and in this perspective f
^ g when both f and g ->0 is properly undefined.
mircea_popescu: n
^ 0 is practically speaking the mathematical notation of aristotle's prime mover. "before anything, everything was one."
mircea_popescu: moreover, the strong argument is ex nihilo nihil. n
^ 0 is validly something, but 0 processed in any way can't properly make anything besides itself.
danielpbarron: it is not controversial to say that 1
^0 equals 1. that is one times itself zero times
danielpbarron: apparently Euler argued that 0
^0 should equal 1 on the basis that n
^0 equals 1. also, my ti-89 says 0
^0 = 1
shinohai: Take care to avoid minotaurs jurov and have fun!
^.
^ trinque:
^ where deedbot asked for one fp, our excitable friend put two
mircea_popescu: i did not, because i did not like the reactive nature of it
^ above.
Framedragger: (
^ ah nick in lowercase, so grep needs to be, too)
Framedragger: incidentally that
^ looks like an interesting piece on automata!
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yes, to text yes, hence why i said plaintext is the easy part
^. but you're right, maybe text is the way to go in these shitcases...