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mircea_popescu: as in a sane world no uni with a cs department could have done anything else in 2013 as a term paper
mircea_popescu: there are 5k universities proposing they have cs departments, which is a fraud
mircea_popescu: yet nobody went "ok, the ideas are quite clear, let's do this then"
mircea_popescu: one thing i can't for the fucking life of me understand is why on earth has nobody made an actual competing implementation.
mircea_popescu: well yeah in ashell environment. not quite that much flexibility in bitcoin scrupting
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the diference here being of course that you're not expected to run the whole turd
mircea_popescu: but apparently the php lolcat interpreter adds leading 0's to O RLY?/OIC blocks or something
mircea_popescu: mtgox was at least 5 times told to stop with the idiocy.
mircea_popescu: watch it abd blog about the experience, i never saw it.
mircea_popescu: like tits, they get cold and flop arouind and your nipples hurt and everything,
mircea_popescu: benkay you know he's the asshole who stole my bentley and gave it to a bunch of kids from like poor countries in india or some shit, and in exchange they hacked a bunch of iphones for him
mircea_popescu: because he likes you and would like to get to know you better.
mircea_popescu: i think it was a topic of discussion at least monthly.
mircea_popescu: cads you'll never be popular with the fiat-finance crowds,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless it includes by reference enough material.
mircea_popescu: (because you see, everything is in the torah, including the birthdate of your future wife you;ve not yet met, as well as the name of her secret lover)
mircea_popescu: the kabbalistic approach is to use them in the manner global warmists use their "data"
mircea_popescu: cads except that's the correct way to use numeric methods
mircea_popescu: which all amount to basically "let's find the parametric function of the future" or meaning or w/e
mircea_popescu: benkay you familiar with how if you read only the nth letter in an arbitrary string you may find a message in there ?
mircea_popescu: benkay but dja know what the kabbalist ppl mostly do ?
mircea_popescu: benkay what do you think numeric/quantitative methods are ?
mircea_popescu: the volatility in this chan is fantasitc, not two hours ago we were discussing the new and improved ordering whereby you get more phonenumber with your order,
mircea_popescu: this remains true no matter how breathtakingly beautiful, elegant or symetrical they be.
mircea_popescu: on which topic n taleb's stuff can't be sufficiently recommended i guess.
mircea_popescu: lest you end up believing your imagination has some bearing on reality.
mircea_popescu: bear in mind that quants are idiots tho. always important to keep this clearly in your head
mircea_popescu: nanotube where does gribble get ;;ticker --market btcavg data from ?
mircea_popescu: because i am currently carrying a shitton of puts, which i would contractually be allowed to execute at the 430 bs bitcoincharts price
mircea_popescu: of course...this opnes up a fucking conundrum from hell,
mircea_popescu: by being in -assets i get the chance to learn how mpoebot etc actually work.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because then somehow (?!) the bitcoincharts avg came out as 537
mircea_popescu: anyway, mpoebot isn't quoting because the derivation among exchanges is too large, and likely won't until this is resolved somehow.
mircea_popescu: it accounted for cases i duly forgot about and then happened
mircea_popescu: at a time long ago when nobody had heard of such a case or imagined it likely.