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assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 03:33:07; mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at
teh conference key signing party... you're supposed
to also sign mine!
mircea_popescu: "to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and
tenses and such, and since
this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated.
this is stuff
that
takes just a bit of
time
to do, but when a whole paragraph of
text " << such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "I have
typed an average of 21.3 keystrokes per second" eh gtfo.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would agree
that
the counting horse is a remarkable horse,
gabriel_laddel: Would you agree
that a shannonizer is a formalization?
gabriel_laddel: ce
this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated.
this is stuff
that
takes just a bit of
time
to do, but when a whole paragraph of
text needs
to be changed from second person singular or from
third person singular
to
third person plural, it's nice
to do
that with a couple keystrokes. it's also nice
to see
that
the pronouns are easily
traceable
to
their origins, and don't get messed up in several layers of refer
gabriel_laddel: apart from
this, I have written Emacs Lisp functions
to make a statement into a question and vice versa,
to join and split sentences (not quite as
trivial as it sounds),
to upgrade from singular
to plural and vice versa,
to change
the person from second
to
third and vice versa, et cetera. significant parts of grammar is
the way it is
to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and
tenses and such, and sin
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:11:55; mircea_popescu: "The studious will note
that
this is a completely solved problem
that no machine learning algorithm will be able
to approximate anytime soon." i'm sorry...what ? solved how ?
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:12:02; mircea_popescu: and why
the fuck am i referencing pastebins.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:00:28; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 <<
this, i will point out, is in no way related
to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going
to fail), but simply a function of context. had
the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had
the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy
to
the
tu
gabriel_laddel: ad, as most people would immediately recoil in horror, seeing something so very different what
they're used
to.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't
there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " <<
this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is
to say one of
those people who,
through his usage, ENACTS
the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of
their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115871 << If
the "rules" of human language are formalized it becomes much easier
to break
them in interesting ways. One could use
the output of a shannonizer
to inform word choice for his story, enforcing
that each word is followed by one of
the
top 10 least likely words in
the whole of
the language up
to
this point. I suspect
that such a
tale would be great fun
to re
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:31:02; Adlai: aha,
the good old C-c C-w C-c
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:29:15; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are
the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr
this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why
the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back
the fucking paperclip, put it
the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool
to int.
This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me
to a) check all places where
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115832 << We're discussing
the same
thing. If
the program has "marked" all instances of $WHATEVER I can
trivally add "Would you like me
to a) check all places where it's called and report what I can figure out about
the context ? b) iterate you
through all locations ? c) change it back ? d) run a
trace see what happens ?" on
top of it.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at
teh conference key signing party... you're supposed
to also sign mine!
☟︎ decimation: yeah I'm not sure if
the guy is joking or not
decimation: I
think mit actually has a significant percentage of high school valedictorians
decimation: well, mit is probably
the most notable school in
the list
decimation: there are a couple of
those on
the list, but mostly it's made up of small private schools and vocational schools
decimation: this is a feature - not a bug - if we agree with
the notion
that anything
that keeps
the masses of cool kids away is a good
thing
Pierre_Rochard: the end goal is
to have a currency -> payments -> accounting -> finance process
that is well oiled and a joy
to use
Pierre_Rochard: indeed,
though I
think
the gems will become apparent as pacioli becomes integrated with a wallet and
the WoT. writing
the core accounting part was necessary because of all
the crufted OSS gnucash/openerp monoliths
mircea_popescu: i mean it in
the bluntest "make sense of reality" sense.
mircea_popescu: and i don't even mean it in
the made-for-tv "tax dodge11!1!" sense.
mircea_popescu: applies
to accounting just as well, except even fewer people know.
mircea_popescu: if
they have ~fundamental~ understanding as a result of interacting with your
thing, you scored major points.
mircea_popescu: and even if
the resulting "accountants" won't be very good by
the way
this is measured
today (a "stickler" approach - great emphasis on detail)
Pierre_Rochard: that’s a great approach, I was stuck in
the mindset of “I’m coding
this for accountants”, rather
than “I’m coding
this
to create accountants”
mircea_popescu: myeah. it WILL help if it leverages
the power of html
to literally funel people into sense.
mircea_popescu: but
the good sort of work,
the sort
that creates a barrier
to entry.
mircea_popescu: sorta funel
the process of selection
towards gaap/sanity
mircea_popescu: so giving
them stuff like - well documented drop lists ? huge win.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard a large chunk of
the utility here is education, seeing how a bunch of people are going
to get involved in a sort of you know, de novo, revolutionary economic process.
Pierre_Rochard: I don’t… gaap or non-gaap depends 90% on
the user, 10% on
the software -
the software is at 11%
Pierre_Rochard: so it’s gaap if a good accountant is using pacioli, it’s some non-gaap
thing otherwise
Pierre_Rochard: but most of gaap is about how
to book specific
transactions (for example expense vs capitalize)
Pierre_Rochard: in fact
the database
tables and query structures are as close
to perfect accounting
theory as you’ll get
Pierre_Rochard: the core accounting part is stable at
this point,
the
treasury part needs a major overhaul, and documentation / source code access will be in place before
the next halving
Pierre_Rochard: haha, well, some random categorizations will be in
the next iteration of
the
test data generation script
cazalla: yeah, qntra has plenty of
those and other variations mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: "This post Formule de salut on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. concerning SEO provides clear
thought for new SEO users
that how
to do Search engine optimization,
therefore keep it up. Nice job
cazalla: soz for
the elbowing BingoBoingo but i saw more gems news on coinfire earlier :)
cazalla: how much did
that gems messaging app raise? BingoBoingo always goes on about it for some reason
cazalla: still, not a bad effort compared
to some other launches
pete_dushenski: on
the plus side,
they only pulled in 2700 btc, most of which was surely
their own
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 10:14:00; davout: so apparently
this neucoin
thing sold for 2.7kBTC worth of
their, ahem, "coin"
pete_dushenski: i mean, a few of us here do it for fun, but surely we miss errors here and
there.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:42:28; mircea_popescu: (and yes editors, which
trilema doth employ, send
the corrections with "did you mean
to X" half
the fucking
time)
williamdunne: At
the moment doesn't support adding new feeds.
That will come soon-ish
williamdunne: Scoop
the fourth is now re-written. Will be moved
to a server, rather
than my laptop
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No, as in
the historical person Pulitzer.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Anyways
the Post Dispatch was
the first Pulitzer owned newspaper
danielpbarron: it's one of my favorites
to leave on in
the background while doing other
things
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron i do enjoy 'sunny'.
the first 5 seasons were pretty fucking hilarious but i haven't kept up with it since
then.
pete_dushenski: "or you can look at
them once and fill out our survey"
pete_dushenski: "if you looks at our ads
twice, we'll let you read
the page once"
pete_dushenski: losing my account and losing 20% of your share price just a month later? hmm,
twitter, very hmm.