asciilifeform: iirc d00d is a court jester for putin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dugin is a limonov-like figure, except with moar 'book-larnin''-flavour. if he's an asset, somebody's burning dough for naught.
asciilifeform: the existence of the printing press is quite analogous to a short circuit, or memory leak, or other undesirable non-closures of systems in engineering.
asciilifeform: ~they~ print. and use the printolade to organize massive pyramid-building projects (e.g. the infamous 'battleship' that clogged the panama canal last year) and breed armies of idiots.
asciilifeform: in exactly same sense that a hood rat stealing your car will say he 'was effecting redistribution'.
asciilifeform: when you sell something for, e.g., dollar, you are in effect giving it away to the folks with the printing press.☟︎
asciilifeform: the effect of understanding exactly why this is so, is not unlike the effect on child of learning arithmetic
asciilifeform: ReadErr: it's not wholly unlike the one between mercury and airplane .
asciilifeform: ReadErr: are you familiar with the relationship between bitcoin and the empire ?
asciilifeform: 'hardware isn't easy to build therefore couldn't possibly be necessary, the gods would not have made this level so hard, for me, the hero' or similar.☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: he was willing to lie to self re 'clim on linux is a lispm'
asciilifeform: not, certainly, a lispm. any moar than old rusty toyota with the holes caulked, and oars fitted, is a boat .
asciilifeform: but instead veered into... what, exactly.
asciilifeform: the funny bit is that gabriel_laddel came pretty close to building something like cuntoo (i.e. a sanely depythonized gentoo) ; which would've been useful and respectable
asciilifeform: 'Ms. Valdimarsdottir, an organizer of the demonstrations in 2016, said inequality still persisted in other areas of Icelandic society, such as wealth distribution and representation in the arts and literature, as well as in the upper echelons of business.' << didjaknow.
asciilifeform: 'for doing the same jobs' << old, grey-bearded lulzgem
asciilifeform: ryabko's been in business for quite a while. earliest item in '79.
asciilifeform: unsurprisingly anglotard 'cryptographic komyoonity' cites d00d : 0 times
asciilifeform: ^ boatload of funstuff concerning , e.g., rng testing methodology; rigorous approach to stego; novel attacks on symmetriccipherolade; various other interesting ( and quite compact ) items.
asciilifeform: if there are -- i dun know of any. yet.
asciilifeform: thing was built to avoid lying to itself and the operator re entropy. but that's only 1st step.
asciilifeform regularly returns to the problem, if the reader has not guessed, of exactly what is the correct method of testing FG, other than ~against other FG~
asciilifeform: whenever i work on 'entropy' i get the uncomfortable suspicion that i am working with a phlogiston
asciilifeform: ( the entropy that ~all~ of the litmuses have in common, is an imaginary entity... )
asciilifeform: theoretically yes. but not sure if analogous : chicken shit is visually separable from grape; what we have here is rather moar like trying to distill the veritas from 'in vino veritas'
asciilifeform: well obviously cuz i'm missing sumthing
asciilifeform: why is there , apparently... a meter.
asciilifeform: this is correct and makes my puzzle appear doubly puzzling.
asciilifeform: yes but why is ~this~ the only item they agree on.
asciilifeform: i'ma have to eat the 'not bias!' answer. even tho it leaves me without a clean analysis-flavoured picture of why successive rounds of faircoin improve entropy metrics across-the-board (regardless of what litmus is chosen)
asciilifeform: this wouldn't be worth writing about, except that it invites a gnarlier analysis q -- what is the bias that 1 round of faircoin ~does not~ remove ? ... analogous similarly directly to successive degrees of polynomial 'not removed' by differentiation in continuous functions ? can prove this ?
asciilifeform: in other verymuch nonnews, asciilifeform for some reason only today realized that von neumann's fair coin algo is simply 'numerical differentiation' for discretes, and removes bias for the same reason differentiation removes constant
asciilifeform: mod6: it's the 'official' answer, linked in ch5.☟︎
