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gribble: The Maxwellians (Cornell History of Science): Bruce J. Hunt ...: <http://www.amazon.com/The-Maxwellians-Cornell-History-Science/dp/0801482348>; The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt — Reviews, Discussion ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3796857-the-maxwellians>; The Maxwellians - Bruce J. Hunt - Google Books: (1 more message)
blackwhite_: whats a good primer on currency/money? Any book recomendations
mircea_popescu: options are derivatives in my book
mike_c: hm, hornblower has got to be better than a book crichton wrote after he died
cazalla: not the best book but i enjoy stuff like that, hornblower etc
cazalla: a pirate book, forget the name
deadweasel: wat book
cazalla: it's from a book
benkay: Mats_cd03: you might enjoy a book /Leviathan Wakes/
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> nubbins`: another reason to learn russian. you can read virtually any book ever printed, originally in virtually any language, for free, searchable. <<< this.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: another reason to learn russian. you can read virtually any book ever printed, originally in virtually any language, for free, searchable.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the pasted text was from eduard limonov's book, 'disciplinary sanitarium'
asciilifeform: radan: do you know russian? because if yes, you'd enjoy limonov's 'disciplinary sanitarium' (http://royallib.ru/book/limonov_eduard/distsiplinarniy_sanatoriy.html)
gribble: Scanners Live in Vain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain>; Scanners Live In Vain : Cordwainer Smith : Free Download ...: <https://archive.org/details/ScannersLiveInVain>; Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith — Reviews, Discussion ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6147203-scanners-live-in-vain>
ozbot: Putin: Crimea similar to Kosovo, West is rewriting its own rule book (FULL SPEECH) - YouTube
asciilifeform: it isn't orlov's (or putin's) fault that the west ua folks insist on becoming something out of a comic book
bitcoinpete: i'm off for a bit of sport, then book clubbin' (antifragile, somehow people haven't read it) cheers
bitmia: mo users, mo money in my book :)
Dimsler takes out his cheque book
gribble: Error: Too many orders to list on IRC. Visit the web order book, http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php?eitherthing=USD to see list of orders for this item.
sheldonthomas: ;;book USD
gribble: Error: Too many orders to list on IRC. Visit the web order book, http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php?eitherthing=BTC to see list of orders for this item.
sheldonthomas: ;;book BTC
sheldonthomas: ;;book btcusd
gribble: (book <thing>) -- Get a list of open orders for <thing>. Web view: http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php
sheldonthomas: ;;book
nubbins`: it's not often i give up on a book partway through
BingoBoingo: Interesting: Penrose's book doesn't have an index entry for "random"
BingoBoingo: B007: You wanted a book on subjective decision making, I offered te same
B007: ask for finance book, get philosophical book
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Legality wise I'm sure I could just say the book is part of the "Enhanced Reality game Bitcoin" like Micon does
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The biggest obstacle I'd face putting together a book, especially a BTC one would be getting lines and bettors on those lines such that I could make vig intsead of propping up the otherside of every line.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how come you're not actually trying to run a book then ? is it illegal where you live or something ?
ThickAsThieves: look man, go write a fucking book or do a documentary
ThickAsThieves: <kakobrekla> previous was normal coke? // pepsi, says his book
mircea_popescu: http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/copyrightWrapper/watermark.php?display=true&image=http://bp.uuuploads.com/worst-book-covers-titles/worst-book-covers-titles-7.jpg
dexX7: but taken from a phone book
mircea_popescu: The equipment sold (including some disposed of in the few months prior to the auction) took up about 750,000 square feet of factory space in New Bedford and was eminently usable. It originally cost us about $13 million, including $2 million spent in 1980-84, and had a current book value of $866,000 (after accelerated depreciation). Though no sane management would have made the investment, the equipment could hav
mircea_popescu: There is an investment postscript in our textile saga. Some investors weight book value heavily in their stock-buying decisions (as I, in my early years, did myself). And some economists and academicians believe replacement values are of considerable importance in calculating an appropriate price level for the stock market as a whole. Those of both persuasions would have received an education at the auction we held
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Something lighter, more fungible. Book's to good to pull quotes from to use it for that even though the bulk and cover quality are more than adequate.
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Great math book with some maybe wrong physics editorializing
Duffer1: i loved that book btw ^.^
asciilifeform: if you folks only ever read one book i mentioned, read that one.
asciilifeform: if you don't believe this, get thee to a dusty book store and buy bucky fuller's 'synergetics' I and II
BingoBoingo: It kept an adequate number of equations for a book with chapter titles like "Manifolds of n dimensions"
Mats_cd03: a topic-specific book would definitely be good though
Mats_cd03: someone in this channel could write the book
Mats_cd03: lets face it, most people would have to read a book before reading _that_ book
CheckDavid: Mats_cd03: I won't put the book down but I won't understand much of what's next either
mircea_popescu: i never heard anyone rejecting a book idea on the grounds that goats wouldn't read it.
Mats_cd03: i promise you once the average person sees the word cryptography theyre going to put the book down
Mats_cd03: a book about bitcoin would suck anyway
deadweasel: like a book of letters, highly edited for cruft
deadweasel: frankly I'm saving the logs for when one of you enterprising fucks puts consolidates and puts them into a book, as a sort of People Guide to the History of Bitcoin.
asciilifeform: i even own a little book on SNOBOL. so clearly.
r3wt: i meant advice on how to make prepared statements, because i'm actually just a noob with a dream. no college education, just read a book about php
asciilifeform: wrote a book.
mircea_popescu: the book of doom after tat
mircea_popescu: decimation eventually someone will write the grand book of everything, just distil all the 500k lines here into a castle of words.
moiety: mircea_popescu: javascript, html/css (obv) and i will go into php. i'm scared of the contents page of the python book
mircea_popescu: that book getting some meat on it.
mircea_popescu: "russian by june" sounds like a good book
mircea_popescu: but those were on the book at an average cost of 2.4 or some shit
mircea_popescu: "When someone hates something that to outside observers looks exactly like themselves in every way, you should quickly consult a French book to see if they don't have a word for that phenomenon, and they do, it's called projection."
gribble: Copyleft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft>; Programmer Mega Book Pack- Part 1 (download torrent) - TPB: <http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6405192/Programmer_Mega_Book_Pack-_Part_1>; COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation: <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf>
asciilifeform: decimation: i had the book!
benkay: you're talking about becoming a professional trader by trading your own book. just don't.
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> uh what happened to this thing /// there's a frenzy over AM solving more blocks than usual (sell Neo! Buy AM!) and the Neo bid book didnt fill much behind the rally
greenspan_fan: thestringpuller yep, reading his book at the moment
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder gotta play the entire book.
nubbins`: AND THAT'S THE END OF THE BOOK.
nubbins`: she suggested i write a book
asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.' ☟︎☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Remember when you asked me for a sports book recommendation?
jborkl_: the price was getting knocked both ways very quickly due to the thin order book
Mallstromm: there's only a reason for that in my book: fractional reserve. I work with banks and I know by hear that there are no "banking limits"
Vexual: you're not trolling, i wrote the book. you have personality disorder
mjr_: that entry in the book is an asset
mjr_: i put in a book, " cerelenius owes me $5"
antephialtic: if you're going to read a rand book, read anthem, its much shorter and gets all her ideas across without 1200 pages of terrible dialogue
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform atm trading at like 220% book. i guess you're well regarded.
ThickAsThieves: i read a book on graphology once, pretty much says, people who write crazy, are mor elikely to be crazy
nubbins`: anyway, i was interested to learn that in the original gospel of mark, jesus dies and that's the end of the fucking book
nubbins`: so i've been wanting to silkscreen, by hand, a book of text for some time now
antephialtic: https://www.bitstamp.net/order_book
asciilifeform: so students can't use last year's book.
mircea_popescu: ~10 or so bux a 500 page book vs 30-40 for photocopying 1k pages.
mircea_popescu: all the kids bought books afair, mostly because it was cheaper to buy the book than to photocopy
BingoBoingo: I think I've found a fake book [Prolly scam]//www.betcoinsports.com/faq
asciilifeform: interesting book on the subject - 'the man who would be queen'
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c here's the actual data : since jan 1st mpoe bot has quoted 7192 times, for a total book exposure of 62930 minutes, = ~43.7 days (out of 51.4) so like 85%. of these in turn 7 (so like 90%) have been since the 14th, ie since the signal divergence.
benkay: mircea_popescu: what did you think of the Jaynes book?
greenspan_fan: well, the book looks at far less data, and perhaps those parameters are better selected
mircea_popescu: benkay the book is better, strictly because it doesn't have the tools to overfit with.
benkay: i don't really expect accuracy on predictions of the behavior of a really complex multidimensional set of oscillators and dampers (see: planetary processes of weather etc) with totally unknown coupling from a set of modelers whose heads gotta be up they asses much less a book from a ways back
asciilifeform: usb is a highly-stateful protocol with a book-length standard ☟︎
Namworld: book has been empty since like 900 USD per BTC
kakobrekla: book seems kinda empty
ThickAsThieves: namworld, by analyzing and auditing book behavior
ThickAsThieves: that book barely moves