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mircea_popescu: but this is not what you're asking, for
a test that sometimes finds something, is it.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 01:36 mircea_popescu: can trivially show this is weaker than " return an ~algo~ for attempting
a better-than-chance prediction".
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 01:33 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is insoluble and dieharder/ent/etc are fundamentally braindamaged. there's no way to avoid the "give it
a large enough sample it'll show 100%" problem specifically because there's no such thing as random bitstream.
mircea_popescu: can trivially show this is weaker than " return an ~algo~ for attempting
a better-than-chance prediction".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, even something as simple as "discern if bitstream X is
a linear function with an irrational parameter" is beyond what can be established.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is insoluble and dieharder/ent/etc are fundamentally braindamaged. there's no way to avoid the "give it
a large enough sample it'll show 100%" problem specifically because there's no such thing as random bitstream.
☟︎ mod6: I might just end up writing
a page that links all the ent/dieharder results.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 01:39 asciilifeform: imho it ought to return an ~algo~ for attempting
a better-than-chance prediction of nth bit, given n;
mod6: should have them done within
a few days. then i gotta try to do some fg-anal.
mircea_popescu: every two bit tramp with
a plan wants to prepare my pie for "the future".
mircea_popescu: anyone ever saw baby falcon fuck around the ground like
a turkey ? no ? DIDNT THINK SO! HA-HAH!
mircea_popescu: oh and in other items to make haters sad : went for mountain hike yest. we got so high, we actually went past
a BABY FALCON that was learning how to fly.
ben_vulpes: you know what i need,
a software as
a service thinger that spins forever before delivering
a 504
mircea_popescu: maybe the family considers getting
a spokesman who is not
a total idiot.
mircea_popescu: “The parents are totally devastated that their young son, that was at the peak of his career about to take off, and his life was taken away senselessly,” said Godlock, who is serving as
a family spokesman.
a111:
a BUILDING full of feeble minded liberals
mircea_popescu: i do have
a profile though ; pretty sure i linked it at some point.
mircea_popescu picked up aspiring slave/slut at airpot. as per instruction she wore heels an
a light dress, no more. dress came off right then and there, into the garbage bin. walked to car, got in... people tried not to notice as is customary...
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: france for
a bit, visit folks in paris and down south, then back to homeland for sun/heat exposure / to feel the summer so to speak, beverages with friends and so on, and later - who knows. $startup applied to an accelerator in puerto rico (ikr?!), may go there for
a few months
shinohai: any descendant block that creates or spends
a segregated witness output is
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, 6 miles is what,
a coupla hours ? kinda meh commute.
a mile or two much better constitutional.
trinque got out of more than
a handful of jams with silence, or at least verbal parsimony
BingoBoingo: Anyway, kid ought to learn how to do
a gel beating. Defend the Patriarch!
trinque: yeh, otherwise no, kid's not expected to fall out of womb
a trained diplomat, soldier, spy
trinque: if I spawned something that wailed to the state regarding my household, I'd at
a minimum give the kid to the state on the spot.
mircea_popescu: cryingly obvious that the only correct solution is ask "social worker" dork for his name, paying him
a visit, beating him until he swears he will never as long as he lives call anyone with that bullshit ever again.
mircea_popescu: moreover, when confronted with the bs, how the fuck do i need to reason to conclude correct solution is not "pay idiot on the phone visit at office, leave him beaten into
a gel" but rather "tell kid to lie to strangers randomly and impredictably". what's he supposed to say, specifically ?
mircea_popescu: you'll have to source that claim from an actual doctor, as opposed to
a drunkard / exile.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "death of meleager", "But where is the affection
a mother should feel for her son? Where are the loving ties that ought to bind parents to their children. Where the anguish i endured through ten long months? Oh my son, how much better had I allowed you to burn in those flames, when you were
a baby!"
ave1: From looking at karatsuba and how it could work bitwise, it might also be useful to have
a starting offset
phf: shroomery is
a crustier take on erowid. if erowid is
a 70s post-psychedelic ethnographer and psychonaut attempt at exhaustive substances library, shroomery is where borderline wooks go to share tips on synthesizing dmt using household objects. as the name implies it's primarily about mushroom growing (it's legal to ship spores, but mushroom growing is finicky, so it's
a perfect dyi drug project)
danielpbarron: to answer ben_vulpes' question, it's like erowid but with
a focus on the cultivation of psychedelic mushrooms. oh also of note: it got unwanted attention (how i leared about it even) when
a guy by the handle "ripper" died of an overdose live on webcam while the chat egged him on to do more drugs. and this was back before smart phones so having
a webcam was not trivial
danielpbarron: they were investigating
a drug ring in ivy league colleges; this guy was selling to some guy who was distributing on campus. i don't recall ever hearing of someone getting busted who just bought for personal use and chatted about it online.
danielpbarron: most of the lsd i've done in my life i got from
a fellow i met through the shroomery irc server. last i heard he's in prison now for selling to an undercover.
ben_vulpes: what is this shroomery thing anyways,
a shitty erowid knockoff?
mircea_popescu: "for the third, most women delivered assisted by an older woman without
a doctor present. and so following."
mircea_popescu: but there was one with two hearty metal loops, facing each other, intended to grab the child's head. if head first presentation. there was
a different turning item, for the case where the baby was strangling. there was also
a sort of tyre iron for unhooking the shoulder (very common stuck birth issue).
mircea_popescu: many variants. i actually bought
a little table forceps once specifically because it looked like one historical type.
mircea_popescu: the operation of burning the instruments was always done in view of the patient. this because the doctors had noticed that in
a 10-15% of cases, the sight alone produced delivery, and they weren't gonna fucking argue with anything that avoided the usage of the thing that left you know, scars on the baby sometimes carried into adulthood, not to mention dead mothers everywhere.
mircea_popescu: in the 19th century, childbirth was
a lot more difficult an affair than these days. for one thing, there was no epidural. for another thing, none of this c-section bs ; most people didn't even do it. for the third, most women delivered assisted by an older woman without
a doctor present. and so following.
a111:
a BUILDING full of feeble minded liberals
mircea_popescu: in any case, before getting angry and taking
a hatchet to the b) above, consider that the possiblity of loving
a woman is strictly dependent on, you've guessed it, public expenditure not following efficiency paradigm.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-19 20:22 asciilifeform: ( summary : 0**0 != 1 would make expansion of taylor series
a bitch )
mircea_popescu: now, obviously the protest will be "but mp, your example with newton is scandalous, math is
a fucking science". yes, it is. in theory. in practice it is not, as far as every non-practician is concerned math is
a religion by definition, and what's worse -- even as far as brilliant practicians are concerned! because what else do you make of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-19#1659407 than "i am fine with interacting with math qua
☝︎ mircea_popescu: every religion is similar to every other in the fundamental points that
a) it is only accessible to the "initiated", the bar for which is never so low as to not demand the subject WANTING TO get it and b) public expenditure (not necessarily in the shape of coin) is not driven by any sort of efficiency paradigm.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-19 15:38 mircea_popescu: incidentally, alf is correct on one point : there is
a painful spot in the history of psychology (the pseudoscience). let us delve :
mircea_popescu: you know, i'm sorry to rain on anyone's parade, but this "skeptic" "post structuralist gender theory" piece is perfectly fine from said perspective. makes fine sense to me. the whole exercise is not so different from "proving" that, eg, newton letters are "pompous" and "improper discourse" because
a) he uses
a lot of symbols and purpose-made constructs and b) some of the stuff it says is counterintuitive to the layman. with
a phf:
a furry who's into werewolves?
ben_vulpes: eh, "ux expert" more likely to be
a bad artist than js anything
mircea_popescu: and every tiresome hipster thinks himself at least
a little hacker. reddit and wikipedia is practically
a hax already yes ? LIFEHACKS!
ben_vulpes: no lykkin would ever think themselves
a 'hacker' omfg, waste time soldering things together they can buy pre assembled?
mircea_popescu: maybe the problem is just senescent myopia, i fail to distinguish
a hipster from
a web designer from
a "backend engineer" from an etc.
ben_vulpes: in my experience the hipsters now live 3 to
a room and the corporate "senior javascript engineers" have the mortgages
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes such
a disjunction was originally predicated re hackers and hipsters. guess what - 20 years healed the rift.
ben_vulpes: i gotta point out that
a lykkin is far more likely to have
a mortgage and beer belly by 23 than to shack up with artists who might make awkward social situations what with the dating multiple women and other such unspeakables
mircea_popescu: i suppose next stop is angry newspaper articles about how global warming burned
a bunch of the lychens in some "artist studio" somewhere. because it totally was not the piled up dry garbage.
pete_dushenski: or "no one told us building DOWN into permafrost was
a terrible idea so it's not our fault, we couldn't have known"
mircea_popescu: they get
a free card. certainly NOT their bumbling idiocy digging the thing in the first place sent gushing meltwater. o no. not that.
mircea_popescu: somehow oddly it's not "our inept activity ruined
a previously fine natural space".
pete_dushenski: "It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in
a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel." << no one fails more
pete_dushenski: there's something strangely appealing about reading the musings of nearly sentient middle-aged gentleman of the fiat persuasion. they're just
a bit too over the hill to be here, but were they fortunate to have been born just
a decade or two later, they would've/could've/should've made fine republican specimens.
pete_dushenski still guiltily checks greenspun's blergh once
a week, isn't always disappointed
pete_dushenski: if only greenspun wasn't so old, jewy, and busy with winblozboxen, he could shut up about 'no-fault divorce' and how 'banging school principal in mass. is
a better career choice for girls than medicine' and just suggest the only right and proper remedy to that particular poison pill.
pete_dushenski first read alimentary independence as alimonial independence, figured that bitcoin was as staunch
a defense against prying states/spouses as anything
mircea_popescu: quite
a different story to be eating out cuz want to eat out vs cuz want to eat.
pete_dushenski: it makes
a respectable five-year plan if nothing else.
mircea_popescu: that's the whole story. if you're not ok with your kid cutting up the puppy you bought it to see what's inside, you're not ok with having
a dick. there's no stop on the slope.
danielpbarron: i got
a bitcoind to compile with the latest instructions and it is confirmed to add new blocks to my pre-existing .bitcoin which is now currently at height 450026
mircea_popescu: and that time ain't going
a-fucking-way just because hurr, five years passed and there's
a new generation of woke dumbasses.
mircea_popescu: there is
a reason mp doesn't think much of usg "law enforcement", and that reason is in the vein of the healthy man not thinking much of the sexual competition by the bellhop of notre dame.
shinohai: One of these days I want
a trilema header with mircea_popescu gazing into crystal ball .... PREDICTING TEH FUTURE :D
mircea_popescu: it's
a good thing i'm right... now and again. LUCK!!11