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cads: inhies: it seems like
a lot of rep-rap grade printers end up gathering dust
cads: I'm looking at
a lower quality offering in the range of $1500, in kit form
kakobrekla: such
a machine finished is worth 15-20k
cads: it's amazingly rigid looking construction - at least you have
a quality product :)
cads: I may _need_
a gantry, but I couldn't pay more than $800 for it, and this would likely be an insult.
cads: so
a mill/printer hybrid will perform poorly at least one task :D
cads: The 3dp community advises against 3d printer/mill hybrids.
A mill needs torque and stiffness, while
a 3d printer needs lightness and feed speeds - they use speeds that are rather shocking to people used to traditional mills
cads: kakobrekla: the "vitamins" needed to put together
a 3d printer - steppers, controllers, RAMP board, and linear actuators - are only around $300. As soon as your mill is up and running with
a mill head, you could fabricate the parts for
a 3d printer kit fairly easily.
kakobrekla: spent 5k+ on parts and
a year of work (when i found the time to fiddle with it)
Chaaang-Noi: anyway have
a good one, try not to fall down and kill yourself before i get back!
mircea_popescu: but jurov, seriously : in
a household of three women i fuck each maybe once or twice
a week
cads: the problem of combing two chatlogs taken from different view points is
a much simpler instance of that general problem.
cads: in any case, the full problem is an interesting problem in the logging literature and in the AI literature - given some collection of possibly contradictory logs, process them into
a single, more trustworthy digest log
cads: if k is
a large number, you can try to find voting blocs - groups of logs that agree on the same history
cads: hmm, It's an interesting problem. Given some number k of incomplete logs, collected by different people, with different latencies, and hence different orders of message arrival in general, how do you fuse the logs into
a single log that has more accurate information?
kakobrekla: orkaa [on this chan] has lots of gay friends and he did
a pool
cads: kakobrekla: this sounds like
a story from
a former soviet state :D
kakobrekla: and demanded
a helicopter and
a pizza with an egg
kakobrekla: he had
a guy here
a few years back, climbed on
a roof all drunk and naked
kakobrekla: well i searched for
a premade solutions
cads: hehe, truly I am
a lazy developer (I know full well that there have got to be turn key solutions for chat logging, already)
benkay: cads: it's
a step backwards for the whole internet.
cads: mircea_popescu: I have the same issue - I followed
a bunch of people because they said something cool once or twice about category theory, haskell, or 3d printing, and the rest is all stuff about how their cat is awesome
mircea_popescu: harvard president is forced to step down within
a year over having said women are maybe not quite as smart as men
mircea_popescu: g his professorial position, as his recent output had consisted primarily of co-written and edited volumes. According to some reports, Summers also objected to West's production of
a CD, the critically panned Sketches of My Culture, and to his political campaigning, including an alleged three weeks to promote Bill Bradley's presidential campaign.
mircea_popescu: In 2000, economist and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers became president of Harvard. Soon after, Summers held
a private meeting with West, where he reportedly rebuked West for missing too many classes, contributing to grade inflation, neglecting serious scholarship, and spending too much time on his economically profitable projects. Summers reportedly suggested that West produce an academic book befittin
cads: mircea_popescu: if they were following you, you could make
a game of offending them so greatly they unfollow you (and it would be fairly easy to analyze who unfollowed you, and what triggered it, lol)
tiberiusiv: just saying, EVERY junkie always wants to be
a inspirational speaker. its like they accomplished something worth sharing
cads: I mean, you think I'll continue talking to you if I can expect ridicule and if even your contemporaries call you
a troll?
tiberiusiv: why would people want to hear about
a loser
cads: mircea_popescu: I don't mind talking about my substance problem - I'm amazed and embarrased - I kicked speed and heroin to the curb back in 2007, but I thought pot and booze were fine. It's shameful that those brought me lower than anything else has. It's... refreshing to finally be in
a spot where I can say _no_ drug is _ever_ going to be
a good
mircea_popescu: still waiting for the speed freak going "well it was getting unmanageable so i'm taking
a year off to deleverage and see what happens"
cads: copumpkin: classes were boring. Substance abuse got unmanageable, and my debt was insane. I'm taking
a year or two off to work on my sobriety, to work my same old job as
a machinist and deleverage my debt
a bit, and to wait and see what happens with higher education.
copumpkin: nah, I was in
a new england university :) but I quit my phd and moved on
cads: hmm, am I right to remember that last we talked (
a couple years ago) you were
a grad student in midwest university?
Chaaang-Noi: if i did the euope thing or whever im sure id hook up with
a local girl
copumpkin: I'm not sure it would suck, but if you have
a SO it would be kind of weird not to do it with them :)
copumpkin: some countries are more annoying about letting you use it, but it was still mostly
a win
copumpkin: so I had to buy
a new pass in the middle of the trip because I got the EU one
Chaaang-Noi: but my wife will have
a hard time getting visa i bet cuz she is thai
copumpkin: very spontaneous travel with my gf for over
a month
copumpkin: it was just the end of
a little baggie I had with me while traveling around europe
Chaaang-Noi: <copumpkin> I accidentally smoked
a bit in Budapest
Chaaang-Noi: but really
a farang smoking
a joint, they dont give
a fuck
copumpkin: I crossed the Hungary/Croatia border with
a little bit of weed and that's apparently
a big source of international tension with Hungary, because Hungary is super hardcore about drugs and will throw you in jail for 15 years without
a trial for 5, and quite
a few foreigners are in that situation
copumpkin: and found out that it's
a big no-no
copumpkin: I accidentally smoked
a bit in Budapest
cads: it will be far grittier than yours, just
a start to
a possible tale of intrigue
cads: mircea_popescu, I think you've inspired me to put
a beginning of
a story on my (currently nearly empty) blog.
Chaaang-Noi: we are moving and giving away
a lot of our extra furniture and stuff to the cambodian migrant workers here
zebedee_: I was assuming you'd show me
a QR on your mobile, but whatever.
zebedee_: Of course; I send to
a BTC address :)
Chaaang-Noi: there is
a guy who is going to meet me in bkk with 30,000 thb to buy btc so this should work out perfectly
Chaaang-Noi: zebedee_ im not in
a bad way but i could buy some thai baht, you in thailand?
mircea_popescu: safety is unrelated tho, it's just
a study of anatomy. can learn it
a thousand different ways.
zebedee_: I've seen others and there's
a lot lacking, to my eyes at least.
zebedee_: There's skill in
a) safety (quick release, avoiding pressure in bad areas etc). and b) aesthetics
cads: but not hard at all, and
a fun exercise in personal wealth management
cads: haha, for me to set aside
a slush fund just for women, now that would be bold
cads: you're talking to someone that just
a year ago found the idea of leverage very exotic, and just 6 months ago was aghast to find out that his financial position has sickeningly leveraged re. his student loans, and decided to put his schooling on panic crash
mircea_popescu: you can even tell her this when it happens and she's all confused, "honey... here's
a chatlog"
mircea_popescu: and when her current relationship implodes you can bridge her for half
a year on rent and food while she sucks your cock and figures out what next.
mircea_popescu: if you had
a business head on your shoulders as good as mine, you'd start
a special slush fgund about now
mircea_popescu: for the record, i never met
a sane mathematician who was any good.
cads: It's not
a longing sentiment, since we had our issues, and she's still
a toker, and I still am sober, thought you're probably right, it would not hurt her to know that I marvel and take joy in the high points of our relationship
zebedee_: Chaaang-Noi: I'll buy some THB from you for BTC if you're in
a bad way.
cads: not at the time, and not since I heard she was settling down - I was muddled up back then, and more recently I figured she has
a chance at happiness with her guy, and have wished that to her.
cads: I stopped hanging out with her to get sober and start hanging out with
a vocalist/painter, and then
a year later I found she's engaged - I wonder if she knows I still have sentiment.. it's not something I thought I had
cads: mircea_popescu: now wouldn't that have been
a sight? two stoned college math students, disproving ZFC
cads: it was strange, like
a cognitive blindspot - I tried what you suggest, and
a few other approaches that I invented just during that conversation (which have been useful in similar situation). I lost
a lot of faith in her as
a mathematician, but regained it in the morning - she was chattering like
a bluejay about how she now sees why she was wrong in her reasoning and why I was right: her intuition was that you can't just infinitely exte
mircea_popescu: either way, either by producing
a counter example or by actually showing the hyptothesis to be correct
cads: yep, suppose that C_k : N -> R is
a counting of the real numbers, then there exists
a number x_k such that x_k is not in the image of C_k
mircea_popescu: sort out all the numbers then show you can make one which is distinct from each on
a different digit
cads: haha, if you were
a mathematician you'd know just how stupid we are
cads: hehe, lovely girl, and
a smart mathematician, the best tit's I've ever... kakobrekla yes