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adlai: it just changes
the order of
the letters
pete_dushenski: "
the scytale, consisted of a
tapered baton around which was spirally wrapped a piece of parchment inscribed with
the message. When unwrapped
the parchment bore an incomprehensible set of letters, but when wrapped around another baton of identical proportions,
the original
text reappeared. "
adlai: pete_dushenski: could be. scytales just rearrange
the 'packets' of a message, whereas modern crypto jumbles
the data within
cazalla: the other leftie
type being.. amir/hippy
types living in a hovel engaging in drug fuelled orgies?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, aren't
the us lefties
the
type of lefties behind bitcoin wimminz day anyway
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, a lefty commune more likely
to be nude
than otherwise.
adlai: what's
this about graphing curves?
cazalla: of course, i'm working on
the assumption
these are lefties who would be grossly offended at such an idea but you never know..
cazalla: got another retweet for
the bits for
tits
trilema post..
this
time by a bitcoin magazine for women.. ah ha,
they don't even read, just retweet
pete_dushenski: "The aeolipile was a hollow sphere mounted so
that it could
turn on a pair of hollow
tubes
that provided steam
to
the sphere from a cauldron.
The steam escaped from
the sphere from one or more bent
tubes projecting from its equator, causing
the sphere
to revolve.
The aeolipile is
the first known device
to
transform steam into rotary motion."
mircea_popescu: they had
the atomic
theory,
they had
the steam engine,
they had
the works.
mircea_popescu: greeks, way ahead of romans and
their spawn ONCE AGAIN
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu aha you're quite right about
the scytales. a variable diameter stick is really a fascinating way of graphing cryptographic curves.
mircea_popescu: the sooner
they lose all hope
the sooner
their children can begin
tearing up redditardamerica and building a livable space north of rio grande.
mircea_popescu: i
think it's unseemly
that
they should be further encouraged.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 12:47:00; punkman: flooding a nice forest probably not
the best idea, but
their argument rests on lousewort?!
BingoBoingo: Oh, is Harrison Ford kicking
the bucket soon?
adlai: asciilifeform: 'x % kills' <<
this would be a
totally meaningless epsilon for any 'perfect information bot'
that actually acts on
that information
adlai: gathering and interpreting actual information is a
totally different story, and
there's a huge amount of information
that most/all human
traders
totally *ignore*, and
that's as mike_c said - past order book movements
adlai: more personally, if perfect information exists, scalpl is
truly a wild goose chase; i'm betting my
time on perfect information not existing, and
there being room for patience
to profit off information fuzzyness
adlai: "market will go up" is different from "joe impulse
trader will press
the button once he sees N flashing numbers", and 'perfect information' requires
the latter, which is for all practical purposes, random
adlai: the information isn't just hard
to attain, it doesn't exist
adlai: calling
this 'np-complete' is like calling ftl drive research 'expensive'
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "BTC
to
top $500 before 1st May"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 19(Y):81(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight.
Total bet: 89.8305122 BTC. Current weight: 72,075.
punkman: I don't
think carnot cycle is a good analogy here
adlai: there's a lot of interesting knowledge in
the distribution of expected liquidity events given all other data on
the market, but it's far from 'perfect', because it gives you, at best, a precisely calculated distribution of 'past performance'
adlai: because
that is pure masturbation
adlai: the 'perfect knowledge' bot - are you using
the word 'perfect'
to suggest
that it knows what _will_ happen?
adlai: nope, but it's a problem
that individuals can
tackle for
themselves
jurov: (parametrizable) risk
tolerance << and
this is solved problem in finance?
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 21:02:54; mike_c: seems
there ought
to be some reasonable blockchain evidence one way or
the other. don't we know
the ulbricht address in question?
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 22:10:23; asciilifeform: incidentally, anyone ever
try
the exercise of writing a 'pefect knowledge' bot
that
tells you 'what could have been' ?
adlai: specifically, scalpl's purpose is
to produce
the fastest possible escape rocket for a given (parametrizable) risk
tolerance; once
that
technology is in place, it's just a matter of finding a market for which
the maximum speed at your risk
tolerance exceeds escape velocity
adlai notes
to self
to offer asciilifeform a seat on
the escape rocket, should
the clue ever be proven
jurov: having
thousands of chumps pounding on on mpex accounts is just unthinkable, hence
the fees.
jurov: i'm
trying
to make do under some constraints, which i explained several
time here
☟︎ []bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin
to drop under $150 before April"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1123/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight.
Total bet: 28.65000237 BTC. Current weight: 68,632.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for No on "BTC
to
top $500 before 1st May"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 20(Y):80(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight.
Total bet: 84.8305122 BTC. Current weight: 72,110.
jurov: can you pls explain
the issue?
jurov: well,
that's not my business
jurov: nad you'd be fine with 90day delay
to access
them,
too?
jurov: ^
this many shares you need
to stay even
ben_vulpes: more effective
to not do it and just buy btc.
mike_c: well, plus he is incorrect. monthly volume is over 1% of
total shares.
jurov: and
they want
to have" perfect bots"
mike_c: jurov: just a poke at
the frequency of dividend mistakes on
that asset :)
jurov: so, nobody even reads
the fkn reports
jurov: mike_c: have you read
the last report?
jurov: bitbet is certain
to make 7% dividend next month
mike_c: i'll leave it at
this - you will come up with a number
that is just as useful with public info as you would with non-public info.
mike_c: ok, but
that's what i'm saying.
the god needs non-public info
mike_c: bid climbs up,
then down,
then sale happens. if you had sold at higher bid you would have done better
than 'perfect info' bot
mike_c: mm, not quite. because order book could have been better
than price history at
times
☟︎ mike_c: infinitesimal, no. but
then you're 'perfect knowledge' bot isn't going
to make so much anyway
mike_c: well, I not only have a clue, i have
the order book history :)
☟︎ mike_c: depends on liquidity.. maybe for mpoe. even
there, not really