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asciilifeform didn't make tops in arkanoid as a kid, either, can live with this

mircea_popescu wipes tear from eye, brought forth by how eulora will entertain even the blackhearted heretics who won't "play" it. it is a tear of joyous schadenfreunde.

mircea_popescu: so you've got a 6 steps solution ?

BingoBoingo: No, but it has been a while

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i love the pretense that dumb whale has "a life".

mircea_popescu: im right, im right. there's a reason we're using "two stacks of diff parities" as stop condition.

asciilifeform: yea he adds portion of pile a to whole of pile b

mircea_popescu: put x% of stack a in stack b === mix stack b with portion of a and place the result where stack b stood before.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it did, it would shed a whole pile for each line of move output

mircea_popescu: mixes a whole stack with a portion of another

mircea_popescu: you want to always use up a whole stack

asciilifeform: nao we haven't yet the proof, but seems like we can conjecture that if |qa - qb| = 1, then piles with qa and qb are immiscible in any ratio; elsewise, yes mixable, in a ratio that can be found, i suspect, in O(1) .

asciilifeform: if anybody needs a bigger ( or smaller ) ver of this lolcat, plox to write in.

mod6: oh shit, it's a gif. i bet if i stare long enough a dragon pops out at me.

mircea_popescu: a new town. brt.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-24#1844008 << the criterion rather seems to be "old[er] male". which even has a lot of historical backing (perhaps most amusing of which, anyone know how the problem of double-spent land grants was solved upon the death of caesar ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: cooking up a lol re subj, brb

mircea_popescu: seems to me that EXACTLY like in the original case of the diophantine approach to "just how many primes are there" we've in fact drawn a conical here in a multi-dimesional space.

mircea_popescu: consider the intervals of N (0...a], (0...b]. for two arbitrary values from N, p, q. the sum of the series-product in the ring modulo-sum is ~sometimes~ 0.

asciilifeform: when a*p and b*q sum to prime ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform specifically via diophantine : if a and b is a natural interval then a*p + b * q (p, q arbitrary constants) will not admit factors ever so often (when they sum to a prime)

a111: Logged on 2018-08-24 00:21 mod6: Unless you want to also do us the favor of taking the additional 100mn ECU, and just !!pay'ing 1.2 BTC back to Pizarro. Totally up to you. We appreciate very much your efforts on this. I think we'll find a way eventually.

a111: Logged on 2018-08-23 22:41 BingoBoingo: If you come to Uruguay, avoid the shrimp pastas. Very underwhelming as a rule.

mircea_popescu: yes, "you understant how esltard chicks mate", dates, whatever. looky here : the cunt will fill up, there's no method. there's only fashion, and fashion's a) irrational and b) unreliable.

mircea_popescu: trinque the proposition is that to believe you understand "the method" is a nonsense stance, in a circumstance where "the method" is mere pretense.

mircea_popescu: herr heinrich who used to have a nuts and botls factory which hitler took from him because "we had a dreirich younger and better and managing your factory" or which stalin took from him "Because factories don't belong with heinrichs", in the end the same thing occured.

trinque: quite a few, but my meatwot isn't generally representative

mircea_popescu: what's the ratio of those to men > 50 who ~used~ to own a house ?

mircea_popescu: trinque how many men > 50 with a house do you know ?

asciilifeform: trinque: makes sense. tho thread wasn't about the inevitable mass implosion, but the erryday 'losing the lottery' where usg decides yer a good candidate for cokemachine

mod6: Unless you want to also do us the favor of taking the additional 100mn ECU, and just !!pay'ing 1.2 BTC back to Pizarro. Totally up to you. We appreciate very much your efforts on this. I think we'll find a way eventually. ☟︎

mod6: mircea_popescu: Alright, sorry to keep you waiting here. I'd say Pizarro is fine to hang on to ECU if we can try again in the next say, 60 days. This would eliminate the step of having to buy ECU (which clearly isn't a problem anyway). Otherwise, you can just !!pay. Amount was 1.1bn ECU. I originally bought 1.2bn from dpb, and I was going to hold the remaining 100mn until the end of the year, unless we

diana_away: there were some monkeys going on the wires with the tails curled on a higher wire so it was basically trolleybus monkeys

BingoBoingo: I did learn this week that the word for guinea pig in Spanish is "Cuy" so I can have fun with that asking vendors at the feria to help me pick a good one for dinner

BingoBoingo: This is not a very seafood oriented culture despite proximity to the sea

BingoBoingo: Most pastas here are underwhelming, but when you add shrimp they charge too much of a premium for the disappointment.

BingoBoingo: If you come to Uruguay, avoid the shrimp pastas. Very underwhelming as a rule. ☟︎

diana_away: I even had a "shrimp spaguetti" with white whine and what-not - it was delicious; oh, and the fig cake - this should be on asciilifeform's list I'd say

BingoBoingo: diana_away: Latino johnny cakes. A flat cornbread just thick enough to split and stuff with other Latino foods.

asciilifeform: Mocky: i dun have a proper heuristic yet. but must note that 'xor(qa&1, qb&1)==0' is overtight, so unlikely that earlier algo is optimal

mod6: mircea_popescu: ah ok, thanks for the update. I'll get back to ya here in a bit on what's best for unwind.

Mocky: asciilifeform, sure but demonstrating overtight constraint in extant algo dun do either. nor does proposing A* without heuristic

mircea_popescu: mod6 i'm sorry, but ima have to refund you. whole exercise turned into a massive pile of idiocy. im closing an entire bank out of the loop over their idiotic misbehaviour ; we'll have to try this again later on. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: amusingly, prime number count heuristics play a part.

Mocky: well, i was given a somewhat different problem statement 2 months ago. more of a software requirement than problem statement actually: http://logs.minigame.biz/2018-06-10.log.html#t18:59:23

a111: Logged on 2018-08-23 15:41 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of your puzzler: if you want always optimal path, it afaik reduces to A* search. actually quite similar to pcb routing.

Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-23#1843778 I initially ruled out A* for lack of admissible heuristic. maybe asciilifeform can see O(1) (or even O(n) ) heuristic to estimate remaining steps in e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-20#1525884 without ever overestimating ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: ( iirc phf mentioned even having a working ru passport )

asciilifeform: there was a short transition where 'ok we'll give you professorship, but not tenured' but it was short.

asciilifeform: i've met both, this is not a seekrit afaik

asciilifeform: [insert the mandatory m: 'what the fuck are you still doing there, are you a tard' a: 'i dun have useful skills for outside the fence' thread here ! ]

asciilifeform: and indeed usgulag is powered by not only printing press but confiscating savings from ~randomly-picked engineers, little-league 'ceo', etc . a la mr stack. ☟︎

asciilifeform: at any rate, if mircea_popescu tells that there's a boiler room scamop where the hr chix is also the accountant and the council etc -- i'ma believe him, at this point i'm ready to believe plenty.

mircea_popescu: you are talking of a world that only exists in your own imagination.

asciilifeform: and cpa is a contractor, and theoretically liable for 'oops, wrong form'

mircea_popescu: most of these people ~are poor~. single clerical error in hr can destructure a firm through the simple procedure of "director" is now "inmate" as can not afford to pay tax bills ?

BingoBoingo: I can't imagine there is a surplus of HR chix capable of working alone or in sufficiently small groups to avoid creating a culture of drama.

BingoBoingo: Well, hr chix are also responsible for making a hostile work environment by promoting 500 species of harrasments

asciilifeform: ( i imagine, triggering a kind of domino cascade, whoknows )

asciilifeform: so they sit for a day without a secretary until hire new one

mircea_popescu: the ineluctable fate of dead empire, stuck pretending, is that everything's a succession of single points of failure.

asciilifeform: since when is 1 chix a 'dept'

mircea_popescu: heh, remember when "car manufacturers", got dekulakized by the pantsuit, resulting in some shit packaged in ye olde "mercedes" "wv" etc boxes, which then didn't work worth a shit ?

phf: ave1: ah thank you, i forgot that i kept the two separate. the folder is not exposed, but i'll merge the two together. there's also an even older (spotty) log from apr 2012 to oct 2013, that includes pre #b-a #bitcoin-otc content, that's available through btcbase, but exists only in xchat (?) log format, that i parse

mircea_popescu: support for they naive is not worth having. know what talking to a computer means as part of your existing in the world, which is to say, outsider of the harem where some slave spawned you.

mircea_popescu: you are talking to a computer ; if you open a tag you close it ; nobody gives a shit what you ~thought~ the alphabet meant.

mircea_popescu: support for this bs is how html soup became a thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in principle this type of inbandism is curable, with simple pill, lookahead parser -- if not ~actual~ html, comment is processed as plain text. rather than the 'oops here's a < so i'ma drift off into stratosphere' existing nonsense

phf: asciilifeform: well, i suppose _i_ was expected to say "oh it's just a SAT"

asciilifeform: phf, mircea_popescu : i half-expected 'lol noshit, any puzzler can be written as A* search, this is copout' lol

mircea_popescu: imo this is a fine example to teach the failure of "no inband!!!"

lobbesbot: phf: Sent 5 hours and 50 minutes ago: <ave1> found the raw logs here http://btcbase.org/log-raw/, this go back to 2016. Do you also have the raw logs before #trilema? and could I download these somewhere (I tried to search the log but, so far seems to be looking for a pin in a haystack)

Mocky: mircea_popescu, i just added a comment to puzzler blog post but seems cut off mid way

mircea_popescu: as the perdurant reader no doubt noticed, i'm a great restationist.

asciilifeform: ( to draw it as a graph, lay out only moves that 'conserve mass' )

mircea_popescu: "how the fuck is it that i can restate alf's fg problems in terms of a mmorpg ?" and so on.

a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:25 mircea_popescu: there's an imbecile's view of "intelligent design" being floated about (mostly by people who are looking for a strawman, and reconstructed by them for this purpose). here's the correct version :

mircea_popescu: if you recall ye olde http://trilema.com/2014/the-miracles-that-matter/ (especially in the light of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759562 style arguments), it should be obvious this is a sort of private mp worship ☝︎

asciilifeform: the odds/evens aspect gives it a 'nim' flavour , so there might be a seekrit optimization..

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of your puzzler: if you want always optimal path, it afaik reduces to A* search. actually quite similar to pcb routing. ☟︎

ave1: !Q later tell phf, I found the raw logs here http://btcbase.org/log-raw/, this go back to 2016. Do you also have the raw logs before #trilema? and could I download these somewhere (I tried to search the log but, so far seems to be looking for a pin in a haystack)

asciilifeform: speaking of which, there was a 'designated' hobo who for 30 yrs sat on the pavement there, unmolested, with picket signs 'end nuke reich' or to that effect

asciilifeform: somehow doesn't keep a hobo from climbing fence and busting in erry year or so, but 'hatefact'.

asciilifeform: ( 'only a terrorist'(tm) could think to ask, why hero did not drive his truck to white house )

BingoBoingo: Well, fuel oil and the right fertilizer, and if you search Mcveigh in wikipedo it goes to a disambiguation page listing 2 seperate timothy mcveighs born in the 1960s

asciilifeform: d00d was to set off a theatric 'bomb', per the script, but showed up with working one

asciilifeform: i recall a husband-and-wife set, Officially 'islamic' flavoured, coupla yrs ago

asciilifeform: ( on rare occasions, the dylan finds a klebold, and they go bang as a duet, but this is uncommon )

BingoBoingo: Boeing like schoolbus lacks a natural use. Might as well repurpose either as cabin in alaskan woods.

mircea_popescu: and he dun see why that asshole has to make such a big deal out of it

asciilifeform: as i understand, the morons didn't even have the simple lock on the ignition that a toyota has.

asciilifeform: 'Andropov: Why did you decide that you are a judge and can decide with a gun in your hands? Ilyin: Because a person should live not exist.' ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: erry d00d who , instead of retreating into 'world of warcraft' and drink, goes out with a bang, is a nail in the inca coffin.

asciilifeform: the janitor with a pail of petrol, is a t-cell, killing off inca cancer, whether knows it or not. ☟︎

asciilifeform: upstack re 'steal a boeing', recall the http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-07#821351 fella ? ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: permits one to comment, upon that scene in film "road trip", that "no black mamie ever gave a white chick looking like amy smart a vibrator for free. EVER."

mircea_popescu: otherwise... i didn't even go by bus as a jr high kid, wtf is this.

mircea_popescu: i expect she does a lot of bussing.\

asciilifeform: in some places ( e.g. east usa ) it is rare to see a fella who owns >1 shirt, on a bus

a111: Logged on 2015-01-21 01:37 mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on the internet, the "everyone is as stupid as me / everyone's a goat the same gender and age as me" issue.