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jurov: is it even physically possible
to make biased dice with, 50% less entropy output?
mircea_popescu: there's a mathematical solution
to "what is
the probability of x specific configuration come out of y random process of given probabilities"
danielpbarron: and you probably have
to roll
the same die 3
times as opposed
to rolling 3 dice once, unless
there's something i'm missing in all
this
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: for
the
truly daft, what do you mean by 'debiasing' ?
pete_dushenski: anyone here have experience physical rolling dice a lot ? wondering how many
times you rolled a set of 5 before you have sufficient confidence in
their fairness. obviously,
there's no absolute answer
to
this inquest, just curious if anyone has bothered or if 'casino dice' are considered sufficient precaution.
pete_dushenski: 'As a Walgreens cashier explains, “It’s easy
to sell on
the street. Everyone uses soap.”'
pete_dushenski: how do stores like walgreens combat
this ? by LOCKING DOWN SOAP like you would cigarettes or razor blades, apparently.
pete_dushenski: mya well
those pencilish ones have kidz
too afaik. if not by me.
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to whatever boyish bs
they put on ftv
these days.
mircea_popescu: tears aren't
THAT common. especially in girls
that actually look like you'd want
to fuck 'em.
pete_dushenski: she can probably attribute much of
this
training
to no-tear v-pipe birth
mircea_popescu: girls
that don't play with
the balls when young piss
their pants when old.
pete_dushenski: actually, come
to
think of it, i
think girl had
these ballz, or similar, during pregnancy. big fan.
pete_dushenski just bought first pair of chinaballs. still getting used
to jingles
mircea_popescu: and pete_dushenski has a point : how many girlies did you stuff with pairs of 'em and
then made do squats ?
mircea_popescu: o
that's pretty good. how many skulls did you crush with your gas-mask based slingshot ?
pete_dushenski: it had no circuits
to fiddle with, maybe parents didn't
think you'd bite
mircea_popescu: ftr asciilifeform my current antispam arrangements work splendidly. i get maybe 2-3 items a day i have
to look at, which is a-ok. 99.97% ish i never see.
pete_dushenski: sort of like how kako had permalinks at
the
top
to wiki, stats, logs, search, etc.
pete_dushenski: but
to go back
to
the most recent logs,
there's no direct link at
the
top of
the page
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: in my little refuge within a bubble within a refuge, we're just booming despite
the oil glut
mircea_popescu: apparently
they're only
transformational before someone buys
them./
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes notice
that
the "whatsap" bullshit
that laundered 2bn of facebook's "money" is not on
the list. somehow.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i don't
think anyone's using kelvin versioning on
trb
a111: Logged on 2016-04-19 22:10 shinohai: ;;later
tell mod6 both import and dumpprivkey work \o/
pete_dushenski: phf: loving
the new search.
think you could add a button or link back
to
the logs so i don't have
to diddle
the url every
time ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-04-24 22:14 BingoBoingo: Yeah, Pete prolly would have archived
the old bets by nao.
pete_dushenski: sorry
to be away so much of late, been swamped
this spring. not
that i mind, just not as much forum
time atm.
ben_vulpes: "people began
to imagine a world where...profits could come back in vogue"
trinque: WHY
THE UNICORN FINANCING MARKET JUST BECAME DANGEROUS…FOR ALL INVOLVED << sorry, cannot go on
ben_vulpes: "this generation’s
transformational companies (AirBNB, Slack, Snapchat, Uber, etc)" << muahaha
mircea_popescu: things
the us lacks
to survive
the coming collapse : item #7, a workable language.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> it's what a disinterested mark would politely say
to an inept would-be chump manager. i guess
the english speakers don't say anything. <- not as directly, no. Possibly something like "it might work," lol
trinque: back in a moment with
the case-sensitivity fix
mircea_popescu: it's what a disinterested mark would politely say
to an inept would-be chump manager. i guess
the english speakers don't say anything.
mircea_popescu: all
the english versions are much
too spirited, drop it, leave it, straight whiskey
to its very mellow cider quality.
mircea_popescu: mebbe. it's very metaphysically flat
tho, like
the world's all flat.
mircea_popescu: [transylvanian "noa lasa" is
this universal
thing, like forget about it. not exactly same meaning, but anyway.]
phf: make
them cary avoskas
to stores
phf: i cary avoska
to stores..
mircea_popescu: this country is
too fucking cheap
to exist, yet if you
talk
to
the inhabitants you'd
think
they all hail from
the fucking oceanside beaches of southern california.
mircea_popescu: when it decides
to fucking split at
the seam and now i have raisined kitchen floor ;/
jurov: yes eulora server was kinda low mark.
then it improved
mircea_popescu: education being obviously
the exact opposite of
trolling.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i
think i'm coming
to an actually correct definition of
trolling.
trolling is
the act of providing needed context separated from
the message, in a place where
the naive reader (who most needs it) is least likely
to find or recognize it.
phf: ah
the crafty double dis
jurov: well..recently even eulora server works better
than mpex