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mircea_popescu: or theoretically, never even touching
a chess table, studying graphs or w/e
mircea_popescu: im not sure there's an imbalance of that kind. you can get to be
a great chess player either practically, spending all your time in central park playing chess with the dudes
mod6: yah that, should have posted
a link.
mod6: heheh, im with you. i dont have
a ton of time to compare each.
mircea_popescu: i can't immediately discern and meh, i have
a bunch of other shit to do atm
mircea_popescu: mod6 on the face of it there's
a brighjt young canadian guy and his grad student that either found some shortcut in c-y or else are just repackaging it for the media buzz.
benkay: wouldn't be the first time one group of braniacs came up with
a new name for an old thing discovered by mathematicians
mod6: does it change the idea of
a Calabiâ-Yau structure to the Amplituhedron?
benkay: i mention it because it references
a pretty efficient way to do some aspects of modeling of quantum states
benkay:
a neat collection of math wankery to be unkind
benkay: just
a neat collection of facts
benkay: "pysicists must also prove that the new geometric formulation applies to the exact particles that are known to exist in the universe, rather than to the idealized qft they used to develop it called maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. this model, which includes
a "superpartner" particle (gotta look at that) and treats space-time as flat, "just happens to be the simplest test case for these new
mod6: fair enough. im gonna work on my perl script then, and i'll get back at you when i'm in need of
a username. i'll send you the 1 BTC then too.
mod6: ok i see. maybe you should make
a futures channel for X.XXX
dub: in
a meeting with chinese vendor, 'those numbers wont add up, thats chinese counting'
mod6: ok i'll work on my bot
a bit and get back to you about the username.
mod6: is there
a faq on that or how-to? and what is required for auth?
benkay: this is neither
a civilized nor globally-aware country.
dub: its kinda hilarious, living in
a civilised and global aware country, being ridiculed for not being
a climate change denier
thestringpuller: I just find it
a bit peculiar the word nigga is inflammatory to non-blacks.
gribble: mircea_popescu was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 11 minutes and 24 seconds ago: <mircea_popescu> should i start
a bet ? :D
mircea_popescu: if not physically necessarily, then in
a certaion metaphorical sense.
mircea_popescu: experience shows kids with that sort of mental issues end up in
a corner.
Namworld: On
a side note, another cash transaction just completed. Smooth as ever.
Rulother: too much of
a pain for free money?
mircea_popescu: Rulother i used to but freenode decided taking donations is too much of
a pain
Rulother: If there's
a donation box or something to help pay for some extra service from freenode, I'll donate
Rulother: I like to be able to see individual trades not one that's lumped together and look like
a massive trade
Rulother: combing trades together is
a no go for me
dexX7: any you can identify the end of
a trade "block", if the time diff is > 1 sec
benkay: but i suppose that some people are incapable of backing out what happened from that in much the same way that it takes quite
a lot of staring at charts to understand candlestick patterns
benkay: that is
a bit confusing because every trade consists of equal parts buying and selling
dexX7: it's
a bit confussing, because btct uses (b) and (s) for buying, selling
topace: huh korbman hasnt been around in
a while
zoinky: was
a fun rollercoaster
benkay: when it comes to profit, i'm laser-focused on building software for others and as
a moon shot doing some quant work
mircea_popescu: so i just had
a dork try to impersonate me to dc ppls. us ips/us phone numbers.
benkay: you can abstract it
a layer above that and point at the role of school in america as state-sponsored daycare
benkay: children see through adults lies
a little more easily than the adults do.
benkay: "Maybe the real mystery was not why Finnish kids cared so much, but why so many of her Oklahoma classmates did not. After all, for them, too, getting
a good education was the only way to go to college and get
a good job. Somewhere along the way, however, many of them had stopped believing in this equation. They didn't take education very seriously. Maybe because they were lazy, spoiled, or
dub: just need to implement
a reliable internet sarcasm parser
dub: stuff to dom, thats not
a nice way to refer to your subs
mircea_popescu:
a measurement is when you measure it. not when you guess what it might have been by some circumstantial evidence.
imsaguy: there should be
a space in there
dub: you made
a comment about measuring somethign 10x heavier than something else
dub: the format is
a little wtf
jurov: but building
a better model...
mircea_popescu: it reminds me
a lot of that character with the bitfury bet.
dub: its like marveling at how we click
a mouse and porn appears, 20 years ago this was novel
pankkake:
a lot of the arguments used 20 years ago were debunked and are no longer used, so…
mircea_popescu: lewicki it's
a sampling problem. the same problem you eschewed earlier, as i was about to ask you if you know enough math to model the average concentration of gas
A in the top tenth of
a recipient holding
a mixture of
A and B where
A is 10x as heavy as B.
dub: lewicki: I thought they are pointing to
a warmer than average day 150 years ago as being proof postiive oslt
lewicki: Although I don't disagree, saying nanoseconds don't matter is
a little obtuse. If 10,000 nuclear bombs went off all at once there would be problems.
mircea_popescu: guess what ?! CFC became very bad
a thing just as patent on them was expiring.
mircea_popescu: since i'm reading up on this : "In 1928 they improved the synthesis of CFCs and demonstrated their usefulness for such
a purpose and their stability and nontoxicity. Kettering patented
a refrigerating apparatus to use the gas"
dub: its
a meaningless scale
dub: 150 years is
a nanosecond in teh context
VanCleef: i bet you btct is run by
a jew
dub: this is why its
a silly discussion, we're applying the cargo cult thing to each other, its like religion
mircea_popescu: lewicki well let's start with something basic. what's the atomic mass of
a cpc molecule ? (any one, at your choice)
dub: confirmational bias is
a helluva drug
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it got 1. everyone to buy
a new set of fridges and acs, narrowly avoiding
a depression and 2) rube countries that were just edging itno the tehcnology to compete were knocked back off the block.
mircea_popescu: and dense that little, if any, ever made it into the upper atmosphere. In fact, chlorides from wind-driven salt spray are
a far larger constituent of atmospheric chlorine than CFCs ever were. Also, over the US where much of the CFCs were being released the amount of UV reaching the ground was decreasing during the same period (as the “ozone hole” was being fear-mongered).
mircea_popescu: The “ozone hole” is
a naturally occurring result of atmospheric dynamics over Antarctica. Mainly the result of lack of sunlight in winter (remember ozone is made from O2 by UV light). The reason it was worse and has gotten smaller is that the scare was during the eruption of an antarctic volcano that was blasting enormous amounts of chlorine into the upper atmosphere. CFCs had nothing to do with it, being so stable
pankkake:
a real nose can't be that sexy
pankkake: her avatar looks like
a 3D rendering to me
topace: as
a "display" version of the symbol
assbot: I haven't understood
a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
jurov: VanCleef: do the research. she has
a blog under her true name
mircea_popescu: i don't recall any tenured professor being canned for not being competent. apparently the only way to get offed is fucking
a student or something.
mircea_popescu: "No self-respecting scientist would ever utter
a phrase like “the science is settled” or try to demonize dissenters." << this is kinda lulzy, seeing how i seem to recall 1900s physics being "
A settled field"
pankkake: it doesn't need to be
a conspiracy (see cargo cult science: not
a conspiracy)
mircea_popescu: no, it's
a lie because stupidity. it is being promoted because money.