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benkay: most us unis i've been to are similarly oriented around hoovering up research + dod monies asciilifeform
asciilifeform: can't speak for other unis, the cs dept. i studied in was a vacuum cleaner for slurping up DOD moneys
copumpkin: not sure I'd say it was blown, Bugpowder
mircea_popescu: and i seriously do not understand what a rector must be thinking to not close down their cs department after this
mircea_popescu: this'd have been anyone's term project if i were teaching.
mircea_popescu: one thing i can't for the fucking life of me understand is why on earth has nobody made an actual competing implementation.
copumpkin: I'm a big fan of the tune in sonmi-451 meets chang, and the various times it recurs throughout the rest of the soundtrack
BingoBoingo: Mark's face is shaped in such a way, I imagine, he imagines he can just hug away the scam.
mircea_popescu: i dun buy it.
cads: if a soundtrack is good I usually watch the movie
mircea_popescu: watch it abd blog about the experience, i never saw it.
copumpkin: I like the soundtrack
cads: mircea_popescu: I'm going to investigate the excuse don't worry :D
BingoBoingo: Doesn't he also keep a bunch of tomatoes prisoner or am I confused.
copumpkin: I tweet occasionally
mircea_popescu: i think it was a topic of discussion at least monthly.
pankkake: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1y116j/mtgox_bitcoin_withdrawals_working_again/ successful trolling I guess
cads: oh yeah, I'd heard of a sizeable market crash.
cads: This is why I refuse to learn finance first. I'd rather take whatever math intuition handicap than be caught using theorems whose conditions are not satisfied.
cads: benkay: I currently /am/ a factory worker :)
cads: the thing I find very useful about the calculus is that, forget finance, say you're dealing with an arrival process in a factory production cell or in an autonomous agent - now /that/ is a situation where your models basically become the magic word of god.
benkay: i was cracking wise about the technical folks' tendency to resort to blind incantations.
cads: Surprisingly so.... I'd hate for it to go to my head, though :)
cads: I've been butting heads with the stochastic calculus and I think I'm about ready to start reading Probability with Martingales - random variables, random processes, and statistics are starting to feel a lot more natural.
benkay: i'll buy that one ;)
mircea_popescu: i have a different model.
benkay: no mircea_popescu you see i have this model and it shows that if things were different things would be different
mircea_popescu: on which topic n taleb's stuff can't be sufficiently recommended i guess.
cads: cool, I'll give joshi a spin
mircea_popescu: i r guess ms joshi can't hurt
cads: mircea_popescu: I'm looking for introductory materials in quantitative finance with focus on hedge funds and derivatives valuation. Any input in this direction?
pankkake: I'm trying a herbijujular strategy!
nanotube: i think charts has removed anx.hk for the moment
TomServo: mircea_popescu: I don't, sorry.
TomServo: I'd guess https://bitcoinaverage.com/#USD
mircea_popescu: hmm i wonder where that's from.
mircea_popescu: because i am currently carrying a shitton of puts, which i would contractually be allowed to execute at the 430 bs bitcoincharts price
mircea_popescu: by being in -assets i get the chance to learn how mpoebot etc actually work.
mircea_popescu: which i still have no idea how
mircea_popescu: it accounted for cases i duly forgot about and then happened
mircea_popescu: benkay the sad part of this of course being that this is actually according to spec i wrote myself.
kakobrekla: i take bribes not to publish that.
mircea_popescu: well fuck me am i supposed to know all this code these people write all the time everywhere omfgbbq
mircea_popescu: i was wrong o.o
Bugpowder: I don't see why they should.
ThickAsThieves: and i doubt they will
ThickAsThieves: i dont think they removed gox
davout: Bugpowder: if it's the 24avg and it's been more than 24h then yes I guess sthg is off
Bugpowder: I miss u
Bugpowder: I just want to short 50 DITM puts. A pittance.
ThickAsThieves: how do i read that list?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i just gave you above a list of last times it quoted!
ThickAsThieves: i thgought it couldnt see?
Bugpowder: I imagine the feed will start working around the same time gox gets dropped from bitcoincharts, and the artificial price jump risk will have been eliminated
Bugpowder: I have a history of crushing MPOEbot. I think MP fears my awesome trading powers and has pulled the bot.
benkay: i don't really much care in the grand scheme of things but its a point what needs making.
benkay: i care where's my damn options bot profit
ThickAsThieves: i still think it's lame
ThickAsThieves: i guess no one cares but Bugpowder anyway
mircea_popescu: not that i know, but i suppose it's becoming more useful.
asciilifeform: but i admit i did not look very hard.
asciilifeform: i was not able to locate the ditch filled with the non-functioning students.
mircea_popescu: i think you misrepresent a convenience for a right.
mircea_popescu: which you know, how much effort can i expend chasing.
mircea_popescu: i am saying that mpex allows people to trade whether the bot quotes or doesn't quote,
Apocalyptic: I wrote some crypto challenges a couple of years ago, involving breaking hash functions and differential crypto, they might interest you
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: just so happens i'm into a number of things.
ThickAsThieves: i dont recall abnout the 1200 drop
ThickAsThieves: i dont plan on buying any, i just think it's weird how this happens every "crash"
mircea_popescu: but i was never able to troubleshoot it
mircea_popescu: i think there may be a cascading effect where if it misses one it asks too often and then it gets banned for an interval
Bugpowder: as do i
ThickAsThieves: cuz i assume bot is off cuz risk
asciilifeform: every day i wake up and wonder how many other folks are sitting on crap like this
asciilifeform: true. the turd i threw in is not 'fundamental invention', unless it is 10 yrs. later.
asciilifeform: i tend to think of 'fundamental' in the literal sense. that is, becomes a foundation for a recognizably novel class of things
mircea_popescu: but it was this rather than that angle i was pursuing.
mircea_popescu: i just googled "robot cartoon"
asciilifeform: every animated robot i know of shows robotic arms with joints
asciilifeform: as far as i could tell, the last fellow who pondered a related question was mr. t, when he coughed up the ac motor.
asciilifeform: i'd dearly love for it to be found. so i'm not stuck building the damn thing.
asciilifeform: i post this turd here, to challenge the 1,000 idlers listening to us, to do so.
asciilifeform: i did try to find some prior art, of some kind. found none.
mircea_popescu: well given what you were replying to i took fundamental to mean "which was never afore thought"
asciilifeform: 2 yrs. ago i figured out how to flex a fairly ordinary multi-conductor cable in an arbitrary spot, at an arbitrary angle, purely electrically. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i have so little faith in the meta-nsa that i'll drop one here.
benkay: did i just get mircea_popescu to watch a video?
benkay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_JOBCLF-I
Duffer1: i wonder how many times he's been offered super cheap ltc
BingoBoingo: I'm wondering when other ATC people are coming over to Apocalyptic's exchange.
Bugpowder: I like the cryptsy system of, whatever bid you place that is over market, you get filled at asks at that exact price.
deanclkclk: davout: it benefits the seller and buyer. I was talking from mostly from the buyer
davout: goodbye deanclkclk, i'm going to play
davout: yeah, i got that the first time
deanclkclk: so basically you could have a case where for the original $100 for 1 BTC..I get 1.02 btc
BingoBoingo: "I'm fucking sick of hearing people say use your brian, etc." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=467059.msg5167848#msg5167848
davout: yeah i got that
davout: i spend all the 100$ and get more btc
deanclkclk: I bid a $100 for 1 BTC and I find a ask for $95.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if praeconium has an evil sock meconium