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PeterL: "I'm just
trying
to ..."
ascii_butugychag: last i checked, it was usg beating
the shit out of derps pretending
to sovereign
mircea_popescu: start beating
the shit out of derps pretending
to
things, see
the wunderbar world
that emerges next week.
ascii_butugychag: it gets away with whatever in exactly
the same way as
the usg it is a
tendril of
ascii_butugychag: so, in usa ~being sued~
typically costs you your net worth + some, if you're a poorfag
mircea_popescu: let
them in,
tie
them
to a steel girder, beat
the shit out of
them for six hours
then call
the cops and press charges.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: it is/was (?)
the software equivalent of riaa/mpaa
ascii_butugychag: (somehow
the conclusion
that 'computers you can't program' don't belong in a security application, is lost on folks)
ascii_butugychag: (there was a spiffy
talk at shmoo, which mentioned how nn used in image recognition usually imprints on what -
to a human - would be an entirely accidental cluster of pixels, and if you flip'em, it will recognize an obvious, e.g,. cat, as a refrigerator, etc)
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 16:05:04; mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said
the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition." << well, more like a qe age.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not
the one living
there.
tell it
to each other.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
there were radio ads in canada maybe 3 years ago
threatening "$100k fine per violation if w4rez discovered on sme bizniz comps"
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu:
this is, or at least was, an actual
thing in usa. 'spa' inspectors, demanding licenses
ascii_butugychag was
the keeper of a linux cluster at a u.s. army
thing and had a pile of magical spells, paperwork, etc.
to keep
the devils away from it
mircea_popescu: cuz you know, "what if da police comes
to inquire where your windows licenses are"
mircea_popescu occasionally runs into midrange business derps who emit
things such as "unlicensed computer"
mircea_popescu: i
think
there's fewer people paying
their own bloomberg
terminal
than
there's people with a legitimate research interest in ai.
pete_dushenski: ascii_butugychag: i'll pass
that along
to my phriends at goldman
PeterL: or get ascii_butugychag
to reverse engineer something for you ;)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: even more scandalous is
that
there's 300`000 dudes who post up
this cash. every. year.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
though 'bloomberg anywhere' works on ios and android
mod6 pictures alf bashing cars out of his way as he
traverses
the beltway
pete_dushenski: and less
than one year of 'bloomberg
terminal' (checked
this out last night, it's $24k per annum)
mircea_popescu: hey, i regularly order
the slavegirls draped when friends visit
pete_dushenski: who
the fuck is rohani anyways ? charlemagne coming
to save you ?
pete_dushenski: "In occasione della visita del presidente iraniano Hassan Rohani in Campidoglio sono state coperte da pannelli bianchi su
tutti e quattro i lati alcune statue di nudi dei Musei Capitolini. La copertura sarebbe stata decisa come forma di rispetto alla cultura e sensibilità iraniana.
Tanto che durante le cerimonie istituzionali non è stato servito nemmeno il vino." << "bow
to your betters!" (tm) (r)
mircea_popescu: i can
tell
this by constructing a humorous equivalent ot his "mpex should", except mine is both actually funny and
to a much larger degree defensible.
PeterL: and you can
tell
this by his name?
mircea_popescu: the subtext is
that random derp with no skin in
the game is running his mouth.
PeterL: no, I am immune
to subtext
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: eagle eyes.
this was an artifact of my keyboard
PeterL: I keep
trying
to do
this, but for some reason my wife shot
that one down
PeterL: Ok,
then am I allowed
to name my kid after my 19th century ancestor Heman?
mircea_popescu: PeterL well familty members were named
through
the same process, so...
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag i'm not fucking anything called "zero hacker" i'll
tell you
that.
ascii_butugychag: i imagine
that if
the modern shitworld somehow survived for another few centuries,
there would be programmer names
the way we currently have smith names
mircea_popescu: PeterL ah, but in
the god forsaken country of romania,
there's a bunch of kings called
that.
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck reason did mrs mayer have
to eschew calling her boy rachel or whatever
the fuck
they do in her
tribe.
mircea_popescu: at least I HAVE A DAMNED GOOD REASON or
twenty
to make
the zeroconf accounting rules.
mircea_popescu: unless of course
there's some King
Trace in
the glorious history of
that great nation of africa
that i'm unfamiliar with.
ascii_butugychag: incidentally afaik knuth is
the last living among
the folks-who-made-usa-worth-not-glassing
mircea_popescu: get a fucking human name why don't you. what is
this mug costanza and rifling jones bs.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_butugychag> mod6:
that
thing is worth more
than my organs <<
typical alf. has collection of organs, complains about life.
mircea_popescu: i
tohught
that was called a prince albert. it's brockchain now ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> hausmann has a story
to
tell about how and why poor countries suck, and it's not because
they're untrained monkeys, it's because
they need more phree airplanes or some shit <<< venezuela is what happened after a gaddafi died of natural causes. yes
the usg 5th column's unhappy
that it has not yet been invited
to save venezuela,
they were predicting $$$ years ago.
mod6: it's over in OR, i'll have ben drive it over
to yah :D
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: LOL
Trace Mayer is critiquing << i have no idea who
that is, but zhe'd better get with
the program because i don't see a future for whatever wot she's in.
ascii_butugychag: pete_dushenski: where i live it is
the ultimate
taboo,
to even hint at asking
PeterL: and is
that $4-5k per month?
PeterL: does everybody else get paid more
than you?
ascii_butugychag: interestingly i appear
to be
the only one at $firm with any sort of serious commute
mod6: anyway, well at least you made it
there.
mod6: my
terminal got all hosed up
there for a sec.
ascii_butugychag: PeterL: constraints - i insist on living in a house, i insist on renting it, and i refuse
to pay over half my wage for it
mod6: don't
they let you work from home when
there is a blizzard?
mod6: sorry,
that sucks. :/
mod6: you got stuck in
the snow 2x
this morning?
PeterL: it boggles my mind how much
time you spend commuting, you sure it would not be easier
to move closer
to $job?
ascii_butugychag: (which had
to be dug out ~twice~, 2nd
time after bulldozer reburied it)
PeterL: "these countries are
the same level because I said so, data does not matter"
pete_dushenski: "Interestingly, countries in
the developing world differ substantially in
the amount of know-how
they receive
through business
travel. For example, countries such as South Africa, Bulgaria, Morocco, and Mauritius receive much more know-how
than countries at similar levels of development such as Peru, Colombia, Chile, Indonesia, or Sri Lanka." << probably
time
to reassess what "development levels" mean
then eh.
thestringpuller: i found it odd he wanted mpex
to produce balance sheets
to see "cashflow" when he could just add up
the dividends and know
total profit distributed over
the company's lifetime
pete_dushenski: since he's not in
the wot, what choice does he have but
to pretend like
there are no monsters under
the bed
pete_dushenski: ya,
trace is being willfully ignorant. what else is new.
pete_dushenski: hausmann has a story
to
tell about how and why poor countries suck, and it's not because
they're untrained monkeys, it's because
they need more phree airplanes or some shit
pete_dushenski: "Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of
the Inter-American Development Bank, is Professor of
the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University, where he is also Director of
the Center for International Development. He is Chair of
the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Meta-Council on Inclusive Growth." << peterl you
think
this guy's worried about
tec
PeterL: do
they address correlation vs causation?
pete_dushenski: this obviously has less
to do with economies of scale and more
to do with quantity not being equal
to quality.
pete_dushenski: "More populous countries have more business
travel in both directions, but
the volume is less
than proportional
to
their population: a country with 100% more population
than another has only about 70% more business
travel.
This suggests
that
there are economies of scale in running businesses
that favor large countries." << moar derps != more business. but impossibru !!1
PeterL: a country where everybody makes minimum wage would not send anybody abroad, a country with a few rich people would send
them
travelling
pete_dushenski: quite so, but don't let
that get in
the way of "the economist"'s story !