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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, you
think usenet was salvageable ?!
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 02:36:29; asciilifeform:
to envision a 'wave of
the future'
that includes c and unix - entirely other.
mircea_popescu: funny
that newspapers survived mad koontz but did not survive vint cerf.
mircea_popescu: and on
that ground
that
there was, nyt could not compete.
mircea_popescu: sure, no argument. nevertheless,
there was still ground.
mircea_popescu: and
that was 2001. long, long before
the greenwaldization, long long before
the pr-intern and dumb-blonde-chick-from-minessota
that eventually yielded its own bastardized meta-story eventually apotheosized in
that horseface dumbass...
mircea_popescu: then
the nazis wiped
them, modern jewry is in
this situation where someone cut
the flower, kept
the stalk in a vase.
mircea_popescu: ironically,
the jewish situation... oh gawd. at
the
time of
the holocaust,
the hasidim were arguably
the most advanced
troop in
the world. certainly > 90% of jewry by cultural and intellectual weight, if 50% or so by mass. for all
the squalor of
the old manhattan, which is what eastern europe was,
the place rocked.
mircea_popescu: similarly, but in
the other direction, abject slaves
that nevertheless unwholesomely despise
their superior masters remain abject irrespective of
time spent in slavery
thereof.
mircea_popescu: which is why despising mit as a group is so important : people who despise
their inept professors may survive
them even when forced by events
to work
there.
mircea_popescu: the
thing is, romania at
the
time had a very specific atmosphere, one
that protected such people in such situaitons like al oxides protect
the al.
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 11:58:20; mircea_popescu: if i were black in
the us i would be fucking worried for my children. being ~10% of
the population and >50% of
the public discourse is how
the hasidim suddenly disappeared from history.
decimation: ben_vulpes: looks like
they rolled ERC into
the new emacs (24.5)
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 02:29:20; asciilifeform: but i presently believe
that it is
the -duty- of any literate man of science
today
to despise mit and everything it now stands for, just as, e.g., an honest historian or anthropologist must despise harvard.
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> Is
the source for
the WoT available? << if you mean, how
to interact with assbot ? it's in wiki.
decimation: she apparently spends her
time coming up with python code
to control motors
ben_vulpes: i studied with many of
the like. getting
them
to
think outside of
the box was not worth
the
time as
there was no prerequisite dicksucking going along with it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i labored a bottom-tier version of same. if
that place was as it was, MIT must be even more so.
whaack: what -does- concentrate at mit, and
this was a pervasive-enough problem even in
the golden days, as attested
to by old hands - is concentration of braggarts and showmen << my point is
the showmen are simply
the loudest
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've not your experience nor your eloquence on
the
topic of MIT, but I do know
they waste oodles of money via usg 'science', supply
the meatrobots responsible for breaking everything, and glorify
the breaking of everything under
the auspices of 'patriotism'.
☟︎ decimation: "What worries me is
that some of
these findings
that are found with
the big data and
the data miners,
that people look at
the findings and
then only after
the finding,
they concoct a story or a
theory, develop ex post some intuition, as
to why
this should work. And I
think
that's dangerous. I prefer
to work on
the basis of first principles: what is reasonable."
decimation: "So
the sort of papers
that are published in psychology, over 92% of
them are, 'Oh, here's a hypothesis; I did an experiment; and I get support.' So
that is a problem. Because it leads
to people essentially data mining
to find a result
to find a result and
then getting it published. "
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mats: if not
to learn from
them,
then
to identify useful assets
mats: i didn't expect it, i sought
them out
mats: (military operations in urban
terrain)
decimation: “The second lesson incorporated from
the PAIs was
that Soldiers in OEF and OIF reported
that
their hand-to-hand combat encounters revolved around a contest over
the Soldier’s weapon (e.g., rifle). It appears
that a Soldier’s opponent regularly attempted
to wrest control of
the Soldier’s weapon during hand-to-hand combat encounters.”
mats: 'combatives' are an essential part of
training. especially in MOUT.
mats: of course. USG spent
the last decade in iraq fighting in hovels.
decimation: "216 out of 1,226 Soldiers (19.0%) reported using hand-to-hand combat skills in at least one encounter.
The Soldiers’ descriptions indicated
that hand-to-hand combat occurred in a variety of
tactical situations "
whaack: to anyone who does not immediately apprehend
the reason for my position, i invite a look into
the 'mit press' catalogues for
the last decade or so. << as was expressed in my conversation with mp, mit's press facade is different
than its internals. Much like bitcoin
mats: sometimes i wonder if folks in here have spent
too much
time battling midgets and have forgotten what its like
to fight a man.
mats: yes,
thats why i mentioned it. as a word of caution about respecting
the enemy.
mats: 22:22:28 <+asciilifeform> ^ see his article on why he allowed his iconic 'structure and interpretation of computer programming' course
to get
the axe. << link?