asciilifeform: and there is, afaik, no proof that it is always built

asciilifeform: and there is presently no known means of predicting, other than by running the ant, when the bridge will be built

asciilifeform: this doesn't require you to hash the entire playing field

asciilifeform: the output of the 'hash' can be 'starting on which move'

asciilifeform: the ant always ends up 'building a road'

asciilifeform: in that the answer is very compact

asciilifeform: langton's ant is a bit more interesting

asciilifeform: surprisingly easy

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/hl/hl.html

asciilifeform: there's exactly one - 'hashlife'

asciilifeform: to make it 'asic-hostile', demand an outlandishly large grid.

asciilifeform: (of the grid bits)

asciilifeform: or rather, a conventional cryptographic hash thereof

asciilifeform: say, 1e8-th state is the hash.

asciilifeform: or 'life'

asciilifeform: e.g. langton's ant

asciilifeform: encode payload as bits on a grid, and run cellular automaton ☟︎

asciilifeform: here's a simple one

asciilifeform: easy.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cpu-friendly vs. what?

asciilifeform: heterogeneity of gpu makes the bot artist's job tricky

asciilifeform: what part of this is a secret

asciilifeform: 'cpu optimized' == 'botnet optimized'

asciilifeform: why this mega-interest in coins optimized for botnet mining?

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: trabazerati.

asciilifeform: moiety: this'd be more like sharing toothbrush.

asciilifeform: 'the moving finger writes, and having writ...'

asciilifeform: it's true!

asciilifeform: because of clinton

asciilifeform: everyone in usa knows that one

asciilifeform: aha that one

asciilifeform: that's like hoping for a cancellation of ckkpss. oh wait.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as is virtually everything done by usg post-fdr

asciilifeform: (ianal!)

asciilifeform: because of the 'disparate impact' (actual legal term) standard established by griggs

asciilifeform: not until recently did anyone dare to give even vaguely intellectual puzzles to potential hires

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: griggs: this was one of those cases that ended in creating a 'talmudic wall' (as the hassid jews call this situation)

asciilifeform: ;;google griggs vs duke power co.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: earlier thing: 'griggs vs. duke power co.'

asciilifeform: i can guess

asciilifeform: living in a flat

asciilifeform: personally i'm less concerned with wattage than space

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu and his room of Trinitrons

asciilifeform: all so i can have a few emacsen going

asciilifeform: my lcds are soaking up ~200W

asciilifeform: think of what a terrific waste a non-ocular display is, for a fellow working alone

asciilifeform: not yet.

asciilifeform: but not 100M wankers.

asciilifeform: me.

asciilifeform: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3071492123502329@naggum.no.html

asciilifeform: naggum's binders.

asciilifeform: if there was any kind of demand for an svga ocular, the chinese would piss on the patents and we'd have them.

asciilifeform: yes it works

asciilifeform: square in the sense of not being staggered rows (optimized for film)

asciilifeform: so, patent trolls.

asciilifeform: kanzure: lockheed corp. et al make fine ones. $50K+

asciilifeform: and who wants to wear a helmet

asciilifeform: back we go, to the days of microcomputing with tv sets

asciilifeform: because if not, go and try reading text

asciilifeform: square pixel grid?

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: (the 'movie'-grade displays have staggered rgb, like the cheap camera viewfinders which... they are)

asciilifeform: razor-sharp monochrome, with square pixels

asciilifeform: if you want an ocular for something other than viewing porn on airplanes

asciilifeform: the electromechanical piece of junk features in my link is, funnily, still far ahead of what you can buy now

asciilifeform: 'glass' is barely vga.

asciilifeform: kanzure: we're still just as far from a 'human price' svga ocular as we were in 1990.

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/paralleleye/eye.html

asciilifeform: i have an ancient page about it, yes

asciilifeform: ;;google p90

asciilifeform: p90?

asciilifeform: funny how my father actually spent a good deal of life doing the same (reversing western consumer junk for the soviet market)

asciilifeform: 'you are what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be.'

asciilifeform: now i just reverse shit to eat.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: kanzure: in my spam flick, you can see the bugger stuff a plate in a non-bot-enabled plate reader

asciilifeform: had.

asciilifeform: because wtf is the point of a robot then

asciilifeform: idea was to get rid of the wretches hand-carrying samples to/from instruments

asciilifeform: and all of the other instruments that were to be used with the damn thing

asciilifeform: reversed 100%.

asciilifeform: rather than foam

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in our case it was a gurl holding a fist over 'big red button'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'therac-25'

asciilifeform: amazing how $300K machine comes with visual basic turd that often physically destroys the enclosure when the thing boots (carriages get sent to the axis limits, because $300K apparently doesn't buy you limit switches...)

asciilifeform: kanzure: nope

asciilifeform: n

asciilifeform: kanzure: what's interesting is that virtually everyone who owns one of those machines has a grad student wretch supervising it's stumblings in perso

asciilifeform: kanzure: mandatory spam: http://www.molboxllc.com/products.html

asciilifeform: kanzure: it's still theoretically for sale. number of takers: zero.

asciilifeform: kanzure: 'what do you mean it doesn't run on top of our winblows stack'

asciilifeform: kanzure: tried to! even landed a conference with them. guess how it went.

asciilifeform: kanzure: i actually spent 2 yrs. writing a total replacement for the idiot software stack those things came with.

asciilifeform: kanzure: ever work with 'tecan corp.' xyz robot?

asciilifeform: to eat.

asciilifeform: doing some sort of dreary web crap

asciilifeform: kanzure: last i spoke with him, he burned out and became a programmer!

asciilifeform: long ago.

asciilifeform: kanzure: he introduced me to some of your works.