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asciilifeform: they are typically powered by a constant-current circuit, so even the rated voltage is not a critical value.
asciilifeform: stepper is an item that normally either works (turns D degrees per electric cycle) or does not (skips beat, because overloaded, underpowered, etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the actual impedance of a stepper almost never matters
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mircea_popescu: how do they make this thing, in a hammer mill ?
mircea_popescu: dude wtf tolerances are those, 10% resistence 20% inductance
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes is invited to laugh at my n00b m4ch1n1ng
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not entirely complete mount bracket for this: http://imgur.com/Cd4Kghs
mircea_popescu: that i can see. but hwa'ts it to do ?
asciilifeform: a small aluminum turd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform da heck is that ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform's iphone does things with the milkman ?!
asciilifeform: so does the dustman.
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu well it does have that stock market growth resembling line.
mike_c: " If for some reason I do decide to use any of the existing graphic components, a quick search on Google for 'clipart of man holding clipboard' and 'blue wiggly line for no apparent reason' should suffice." lol
assbot: "Dropshadows lift the type off the page as if they are 3D. You probably don't even know how to do them."
asciilifeform finally washed off the aluminum swarf and black oil.
mike_c: send complaints to btcalpha design department. they deserve it. http://i.imgur.com/SIOI7Wx.png
mike_c: i made one yesterday. it sucked, so i need to make another one.
mircea_popescu: mike_c hey, you never made a banner for the analysis page ?
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ben_vulpes: new p.o., thestringpuller
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Namworld: I guess that would be a fitting comment. But no, was merely finding that this site had 4 dimensions well explained.
jurov: some dude tried to teach mircea about women "they live in another dimension"
Namworld: What? Not aware of earlier talk.
jurov: hi Namworld, is it related to talk about women earlier today?
assbot: Introduction to the fourth dimension
mircea_popescu: that's the drawback to bullshit advertising talk
mircea_popescu: so i get to expect it does absolutely anything i can imagine.
mircea_popescu: jurov well their claim was "the most advanced bmc in teh possibru!!1"
jurov: giving a power transistor to each cell? i see it's easier to match them
jurov: did they claim to do it individually?
mircea_popescu: decimation wait, so the tesla bmc actually can't charge/discharge the cells individually
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw you still hold solar panels cost more energy to make than they produce ?
jurov: well then...better keep the pie intact
mircea_popescu: it was to be a whole bitcoin killer!
mircea_popescu: now all it takes is one cut
BlueMeanie4: the greatest new crypto coin in the world- not allowed to say anything negative
mircea_popescu: jurov always the negativist. think, the problem of splitting the pie! always a np problem!
mircea_popescu: i definitely love going in old blogs comment sections to fish for these sorts of gems
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "To be publicly critical of a project that is still so young and involves so many degrees of freedom reflects poorly on your own intelligence."
devthedev: "If problems of the planet have an exponential growth, solutions need to have a higher exponential growth."
jurov asks mircea to sell precisely e shares of S.MPOE
mircea_popescu: pretend the world is a huge rave
jurov: re: base e floats: they are a bitch to add or increase/decrease by 1
bounce: useful trick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&t=94s
fluffypony: 38 on the richter scale
fluffypony: that's my only claim to fame
BlueMeanie4: im a crypto expert, I also double a circus sideshow freak and a professional craft beer taster
BlueMeanie4: does everyone have a gimmick these days?
mircea_popescu: "Possibilitarian, #Cryptocurrency enthusiast & student of philosophy. I hope to make the world better than I found it. Bitcoin"
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danielpbarron: apparently one of my tweets that cites a trilema article was mentioned in some youtube video https://twitter.com/mrchrisellis/status/513448933306404866
mircea_popescu: im surprised nobody came up with the don knuth is satoshi knack yet.
decimation: I got sidetracked with herr knuth too
mircea_popescu: just funny the way he came back later with it :p
asciilifeform: herr euler did the math, why would he have to.
decimation: yeah it seems to me that you need complex numbers
mircea_popescu: not that it's not the same number.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unless you do trig. then it needs pi
mircea_popescu: decimation no, but they ARE 8 digits worth of 2/7
asciilifeform: student exercise. prove that the minimally-braindamaged implementation of hardware finite-precision floating point requires a base of 'e'.
mircea_popescu: "give me this cup full of 2/7" should result in a cupful
asciilifeform: decimation: halfway on the road to african method - sit in a tub of own shit and call it a 'computer'
mircea_popescu: decimation honestly, filling the register ain't buggy.
decimation: the new jersey method would be to return a buggy result and hope for the best?
asciilifeform: chuck some metal into a lathe, try cutting too deep.
mircea_popescu: computer can't have autonomy to decide if to play.
mircea_popescu: no, cause the no play is not a computer, it's a wife./
mircea_popescu: basically you're saying "take this thing from a compact representation to an infinite representation on a finite space without loss"
asciilifeform: point here is that a 'rational tower' is one where no information is lost as a result of this operation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can only put 00000007 and 00000002 in the registers, and the result will be 28571428 and an overflow bit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: symbolic maths packages traditionally err on the side of irreducibility
decimation: depends on the cpu, but you aren't going to get '7/2'
asciilifeform: what is the answer represented?
asciilifeform: think this way. i take a cpu (your choice, which) and put '7' in a register, and '2' in another, and demand that division happen.
decimation: in theory, if maxima can do it in software, it could be done with automa at a lower level in silicon
asciilifeform: but quite a bit of work on top of what extant machines do in bare silicon.
decimation: (which is really an irrational tower :)
mircea_popescu: it's a numeric machine tho
asciilifeform: not only notation. to know which operations are not rationally reducible, requires a fairly good symbolic maths apparatus (e.g., 'macsyma' and its plagiarized clones)
mircea_popescu: in a computer the output of "abc" is "abc' rather than whatever windows may spit out with a bad charset or w/e
asciilifeform: but in a 'rational tower', the output of 'sqrt(2)' is 'sqrt(2)'.
asciilifeform: ah in that sense - yes
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, all they do is bitwise addition
asciilifeform: no extant cpu has a 'rational tower' in that sense.
mircea_popescu: quite. the ring of integers and + -
asciilifeform: as in, answers take the form one '1 / 2' rather than 0.500000
mircea_popescu: and i'll venture a guess that more computer insecurity was caused by this than any other one thing
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> why do we have floating point hardware instead of rational arithmetic towers? << but we don't. we have rational arithmetic towers pretending (unconvincingly) to be floating point hardware
decimation: your car radio multiplies two waveforms with a few diodes and a filter circuit
asciilifeform: it's the reason the tech was abandoned
decimation: yeah, multiplicative noise in analog computers is the bane of rf designers