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jurov: hafta convert
them
to a+bi anyway
xanthyos: you can
think of all numbers as having +bi but if b = 0 it doesn't matter
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jurov: <adlai> slight
tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced as a+bi << easy addition and multiplication?
jurov: okay, now i have
this off my mind
jurov: coinbr has state machine
to compensate for it complicated enough already
jurov: well.. it's up
to mircea. i doubt he ever does anything about
this stateless, eventually-consistent wankfest of his.
davout: yes, continuous
trading seems so much simpler, not sure if
there's a blocker i'm missing
tho
jurov: i wrote clearly how i intend
to solve it. x.eur would just not
trade in interval when such behavior is expected.
davout: what you're reeling about is coinbr's inability
to cleanly detect
the gap, whether
that's for mpex or coinbr
to solve is another question
jurov: continuos
trading without balaces mysteriously on/off would
the best solution in my view
jurov: you see - i'm reeling about
the first one
davout: or do continuous
trading
xanthyos: davout: i'm not supposed
to
talk about
that anymore. started
to annoy ppl
davout: jurov: either de-automate
the first step
davout: xanthyos getting it !up,
that's good news
xanthyos: life's more exciting with a coinbase progress bar in one of my browser
tabs
davout: which creates a
trading gap unless everyone is perfectly synchronized
jurov: and why's
that a problem? french ppl u no have hard deadlines?
davout: it's not
that i dislike it, it's just
that i point out
that it creates a hard deadline for everyone
jurov: if it changes
to other fixed
time, i'm okay with it
jurov: you don't like
the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want
to change it, no?
jurov: and
there's nothing in STATJSON output
to indicate it
jurov: that X.EUR is
to disappear and reappear at any indeterminate
time
xanthyos: coinbase makes it
too easy! i
thought
they'd at least slow me down with a 2 factor phone auth
nubbins`: otherwise your article quality's going down
the shitter
adlai: nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore
text within blockquote
tags
nubbins`: jurov iirc (and i could be wrong), qntra pays
the way dickens' publisher paid
adlai: kakobrekla: what's
type:11 ?
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adlai: would've been nicer with &symbol= and push notifications and a unicorn pony but i'll settle for
this :)
mike_c: jurov, you still market making mpif? it seems
the bids are below bounds (which I
thought was +- 5%).
adlai: the impression I get from lurking around here is
that
there aren't concrete plans for another profit center, but if one arose, it would be welcomed
artifexd: And
there hasn't been much
talk of MPIF lately. I'm in an information vacuum, so
to speak.
artifexd: I'm just
trying
to make a decision
to sell what I have, buy more, or wait some more.
artifexd: If I had any
to offer, yes. Alas, no.
adlai: artifexd: are you planning
to offer any?
artifexd: Are
there any plans for new profit centers in MPIF?
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 19:56:00; mircea_popescu: kuzetsa ah i
think you gotta pay kako for access
to
that ?
jurov: what's with
the submissions
to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim?
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that manages
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nubbins`: should know for sure in
the next couple days
nubbins`: ah yes,
ty, i may have it covered
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:31:14; asciilifeform: and
that a circus weight-lifter isn't
the least bit strong, because perhaps my arse muscle is stronger yet
than his biceps
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:30:52; asciilifeform: how come we never hear anyone arguing
that
there is no such
thing as 'strength'
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2014 17:02:37; mircea_popescu: something like
that. so one night while in here, i see movement in
the corner of my eye
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:29:22; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, just watch people respond
to stimuli.
mircea_popescu: moreover,
trying
to pursue a "science of health" is
the hallmark of pseudoscientific cockery.
adlai: maybe a bit more
than
ten minutes
mircea_popescu: same way carnies pick out
their marks, it's nothing novel.
adlai is wondering how mircea_popescu judges intelligence based on eye movement... it seems very dependant upon
the setting
adlai: bricklisp simply doesn't detract from
the intelligence of whoever is using it, like "rubber duck debugging"
mircea_popescu: as i said, all sorts of heuristics can be useful. i
tend
to not pursue relations with
the intellectually slow, which i often judge in seconds on simple cues such as eye movement.
adlai: aha, bricklisp proves
that !stupid ≠ intelligent
mircea_popescu: adlai because
they're not introduced by intelligent people./
adlai: slight
tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced as a+bi when (magnitude,phase) is an infinitely more INTELLIGENT way of understanding
them?
mircea_popescu: so
the best way
to be intelligent is doing speedballs ?
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:24:29; asciilifeform: Adlai: if i recall, hypothesis involves impedance matching - same reason folks with damaged myelin sheaths lose
theirs.
mircea_popescu: adlai ah,
this isn't an argument against such stuff. sure, reaction
time is even a good proxy for
things you may care about,
mircea_popescu: it's
that endeavour where anything can be a principle.
adlai: chasing "intelligence" might be pseudoscience but you can get relevant results by studying well-defined attributes (eg reaction
time)
mircea_popescu: a pseudoscience isn't
that endeavour lcking principles,
mircea_popescu: belongs as a subset obscure philosophy, right
there with aesthetics.
adlai: lol right
there in Eysenck's bio... "Definition of Intelligence"
mircea_popescu: anyway. i
think it's pseudoscience,
the whole lot of it.
adlai: that's because
they're using intuition instead of intelligence
mircea_popescu: and in particular attempts
to define intelligence in
terms of statistical fitting and survivability yield monsters
mircea_popescu: adlai
that sexual selection exists is very poor grounding
to claim beauty.
mircea_popescu: perhaps, but
the label of magnetism is at least applied on some sort of interaction
that yields a force.
adlai: ie, at any one point in
time, for a given population, you can measure "beauty"