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mircea_popescu: basically the player becomes an exercise to measure the fuzzer parameters
mircea_popescu: some are very badly fuzzed. some very slightly. some in between
mircea_popescu: and are fuzzed to different (and unknown to players) degrees
mircea_popescu: than to switch and perhaps get a very entropic string.
mircea_popescu: seems to me a better strategy may be to stick with a not-so-entropic string
mircea_popescu: it is a given the bot would contain the dictionaries, sure.
mircea_popescu: cause that's what i was wanting, to see if this is original or i'm just ineptly stumbling on well known (to everyone else) history.
mircea_popescu: he wins with the highest score once all players have read all strings.
mircea_popescu: if the player completes a line or a poem, more bonuses.
mircea_popescu: the word on itself is worth something. if the word is actually part of one of the player's poems on their table, it's worth more.
mircea_popescu: whenever a player has read a natural language word (ie, from the dictionary) out of the string (exact match, no mixing of letters or anything scrabble-ish) he now has that word.
mircea_popescu: each player has a pre-given "Table" consisting of a number of natural language poems. these are actual literature.
mircea_popescu: each player gets the same copy of the same list of strings. at any point each player has the choice of either reading one more character from their current string or advance ot the next string.
mircea_popescu: the game board consists of an endless set of strings, which all start as natural language constructs and are "decayed" by bit flipping by an actual rng.
mircea_popescu: each string has its own per-character entropy, from epsilon to 8-epsilon
mircea_popescu: the key here, of course, being that the strings are not all created equal
mircea_popescu: i was just describing what your bot is supposed to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously player can only eat a word if the whole word has been read.
mircea_popescu: then you give everyone strings, and they can read one char at a time
mircea_popescu: you define actual words in the dictionary as "good stuff", and each player gets a selection of poems to complete. words themselves are worth points, filled lines are worth more points, filled poems even more.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know this inspires me ? one could formalise the problem with strings.
mircea_popescu: and the shit got like 200 votes and comments and whatnot. which clearly shows the importance of social media voting.
mircea_popescu: "ono, someone said mean things to me ON THE INTERWEBS! PLS CARE"
mircea_popescu: re winkdex : myeah, we have a serious problem with indexes.
mircea_popescu: the problem with that is the solvent isn't so kind on the sensitive skin of the thigs
mircea_popescu: the problem with fixed poles is that girls want to lube it up
mircea_popescu: it can be about as difficult or easy as you want to make it for yourself.
mircea_popescu: attn all present jpm bankers. the girl won't leave till she's bled you dry!
mircea_popescu: how long do you spend grazing and when do you leave looking for more bushes ?
mircea_popescu: like suppose you're naked outdoors circa 4500 bc, and very hungry.
mircea_popescu: moiety it's a formulation of the explore/exploit dilemma
mircea_popescu: which will likely get you sued and congress pass a law saying dollars have to be just as big as anything else on the tag!!1
mircea_popescu: the way to skirt this, for fun and profit, is obviously to open the 5th avenue shop with prices prominently displayed in bitcoin and a tiny print usd value underneath, like "We also take this shit if you absolutely must"
mircea_popescu: nor are you allowed to pull the "this is just as good as usd" liberty dollar scam.
mircea_popescu: but you're not allowed to open a shop on 5th avenue which lists all prices in bitcoin and doesn't take usd,
mircea_popescu: diametric the other interepretation is, that as long as you price your goods in dollars you're fine, and as long as you accept someone';s offer of doobaloos for your items you're also fine,
mircea_popescu: you see, bois are fully allowed to love mac clintock, but god forbid a woman mentions abba like she heard of it.
mircea_popescu: if i recall the original actually had good new england grammar
mircea_popescu: i distinctly remember readinf the exchange in the mid 90s, thinking "look how retarded the mericans actually are, they believe this crap is respondent"
mircea_popescu: moiety oyu know that "please allow me to analyse your situation" post is about as old as the internet ?
mircea_popescu: wao-ender they did it just fine for a while. but yes the boors.
mircea_popescu: cads don't be bullied into it, but just consider that a) you really can't go through life like this and b) you definitely can't write the austrian thing for this reason.
mircea_popescu: i tend to ask people with gold coin collections (which obviously WILL include some) "but you don't think the earth is flat, too, do youi ?"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves do you know who was the biggest believer ?
mircea_popescu: i mean even the flat earth folks can EXPLAIN it to you if you ask.
mircea_popescu: but how can you go through your day not understanding what you believe in ?
mircea_popescu: it's no shame, people believe all sorts of weird shit.
mircea_popescu: dude what's with you people, seriously. you believe in this, right ?