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mircea_popescu: you get stability in
the sense
that you agree
to be a carrot moving at speed on a vegetable grater.
ascii_butugychag: discussing braking in a machine
that can go into, e.g., spins, is lulzy
mircea_popescu: well of course. you can just plug
the power backwards, who's
to know.
PeterL: heli breaks easier
than car?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag let's see... anywehre you go,
there's a ~1k lane highway available. and it's on ~ 50 or 100 levels. so 50k lanes at a minimum. what fucking
traffic.
PeterL: what
traffic, aren't we killing off 90% of population?
mircea_popescu: traffic isn't so big a problem - easeir
to make autoflown heli
than car.
PeterL: helicopter can go faster
than car, more direct route
PeterL: back
to
the
topic of alphabet, alchemists/early chemists came up with wacky symbols for all
the elements,
thankfully somebody got smart and switched
to alphabetic symbols instead.
ascii_butugychag: cl is not, e.g., haskell, does not attempt mechanical
type inference
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 19:40:10; mircea_popescu: are you seriously going
to
tell me
that
the compiler fails
to identify
this optimization ?!
mircea_popescu: (flying a fixed wing is similar, except
the arrangement has signigicant - if not gravitational - inertia. a
tiny heli does not.)
punkman: can't fit many girls in
two seater
mircea_popescu: i briefly considered a
two seater
thing a few years back
PeterL: * <mircea_popescu>
they need a runway. << Why not both?
mircea_popescu: "There is no reason
that a programmer should know
that
this rewrite is needed. On
the other hand, finding
that performance was not as expected should not have led
the manager of
the programmer in question
to conclude, as he did,
that Lisp was
the wrong language." ahaha what ?!
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell psztorc
thank you for enriching my morning lulz
mircea_popescu: "Altering
the faulty declaration improved
the performance of
the entire system by 20%." << umm... go hang ?
mircea_popescu: are you seriously going
to
tell me
that
the compiler fails
to identify
this optimization ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: The
three arrays happen
to be of fixed size, which is reflected in
the following correct declaration:
mircea_popescu: This example is a mistake
that is easy
to make.
The programmer here did not declare his arrays as fully as he could have.
Therefore, each array access was about as slow as a function call when it should have been a few instructions.
The original declaration was as follows:
mircea_popescu: "sovereignity is
the ability
to convince lazy idiots
that symbols have meaning".
mircea_popescu: all
the
talk neglects
to notice how
teh usg is force
to
try and replace cars - autonomous for 1500 miles - with rubber band machines, autonomous for maybe 50. at GREAT expense.
BingoBoingo awaits mircea_popescu paying out bounties
to Unilever for
the death of his enemies.
mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their
tricks work for
them only a short distance of
their run, and for us
the whole run."
☟︎ punkman: "a flurry of various machine making machines." "houses don't need a fucking pool,
they need a runway." << I love futuristic-mp
mircea_popescu: nope, shoot
them down with
the same rays usa shot down soviet strategic bombers
mircea_popescu: forget
this. no more centralized manufacturing of anything.
ascii_butugychag: 'sovereignty is
the ability
to manufacture airplane in large numbers'
ascii_butugychag: the megastate didn't end up with air superiority because of
the gods' whim,
though
mircea_popescu: i want
to have more landing locations
than existing aircraft.
mircea_popescu: private jets all
the way. private helicopters, cessnas, fuck it.
mircea_popescu: fuck boeing nevertheless. i do not wish
to even hear of bullshit "airport"
to have "tsa" at.
mircea_popescu: "C is
therefore a language for which it is easy
to write a decent compiler"
ascii_butugychag: if mircea_popescu imagines
that his gateway
to
the bowels of hell will be dug by six dudes with shovels, he is smoking something strong.
mircea_popescu: fuck caterpillar. and boeing. and
the whole fucking rest of
them.
mircea_popescu: no, we have city-run stell mill like
the city power network,
mircea_popescu: only reason
those are excused is because ancient
tradition. otherwise, caterpillar as loathsome as john deere as loathsome as monsanto as loathsome as mpaa
mircea_popescu: at least
the usg, from
the president
to
the last goon, knows
they're sitting on a prayer
mircea_popescu: last fucking
thing
the world of
today needed would be some unfucked & unfuckable, nose-in-the-sky self sufficient engineer derps with delusions of success.
mircea_popescu: whether
the rat existed yet or not,
they still aspired
to be a rat.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 18:48:43; mircea_popescu: bwahaha. symbolics - wanted
to be ms, got raped.
mircea_popescu: i'd have much preferred it if
that quote read "had we done what mp said we shoudl do
the first
time he called us idiots back in 2013, we'd now be in a position where we could almost pass for human"
mircea_popescu: bluematt left, apparently. which brings
the bipedal count
to ~0
shinohai: Maybe Gavin can get
them seat on
the jet.
mircea_popescu: "And outside
the US
there were major Lisp efforts, including Cambridge Lisp and Le-Lisp.
The humble US grassroots effort did not seek membership from outside
the US, and one can safely regard
that as a mistake. Frankly, it never occurred
to
the Common Lisp group
that
this purely American effort would be of interest outside
the US, because very few of
the group saw a future in AI
that would extend
the needs for a standa
mircea_popescu: there's no engineering brilliance
that may excuse
that, is
there.
mircea_popescu: "The largest criticisms of Symbolics in
the article are
that Symbolics believed AI would
take off and
that Symbolics mistakenly pushed its view
that proprietary hardware was
the way
to go for AI."
adlai off
to rosenfeld chess'n'bullshit emporium, leaves scoopworms
to earlier birds
BingoBoingo is just giving words away
to qntra shareholders right now. Fucking footnoting inside a blockquote.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 17:58:22; mircea_popescu: it is also fundamentally why math "is hard". for every non-retarded young adult who believes math is hard you have a case of a child who developed his own, highly personal set of shitty symbols, and
then never received a good explanation as
to what
the difference between his and "everyone else"'s is, so got lost.