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nubbins`: that's not
the same
thing at fucking all
mircea_popescu: what sort of burgeois concilliatory anti-pseudo-scientific nonsense is
this! out of wikipedia,
the red flanel of
the regime!
mircea_popescu: omfg look at
that heresy! wikipedia lists sun radiative output as a causative factor in
the first ice age (the one post oxigenation).
mircea_popescu: what in
the huronic demonology is a "hamburger helper"
nubbins`: i
treated pascale
to a delightful supper of hamburger helper
to celebrate
nubbins`: hey,
that's
the
third line of
the "what is bitcoin" posters
mircea_popescu: this is easily explained
through
this mathematical model.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu
the prices are rising faster
than
the mean global
temperature
nubbins`: overall, not a bad start
to
the week
nubbins`: oh, and i sold a couple casascius coins for a record-high price
today
godovo: it is sort of depressing reading
the log/blog and understanding how miserable you are
godovo: danke, but I've got nothing
to say
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: "any
taxpayer may prevail
themselves of equal standards in any proceedings in
this circuit".
mircea_popescu: chetty judge should make an order creating adverse precedent for
the irs.
nubbins`: ah,
that explains
the bad
taste
mircea_popescu: anyway, you mash
them into
the eye,
the lacrimal glands wash
them into
the nose drain, from whece
they drip straight into your duodenum
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mircea_popescu: nubbins`: wow, in
the coldest part of
the last ice age, earth's average
temperature was only 4.5C below
the 20th century norm <<
that's such bs.
nubbins`: tongue won't reach
that far up ;(
nubbins`: else i start
thinking about
the mites i'm mashing into
them whenever i rub
nubbins`: i
try not
to imagine my eyeballs
too much
nubbins`: some parts of my body
tend
to grow multiple hairs out of
the same follicle
mircea_popescu: you could prolly make baseball bats out of some of
these.
mircea_popescu: ima
totally fucking do
this, you know, if i'm ever in a place where hte fucking waitress is all doge-fan
nubbins`: incidentally, we printed
the 2nd poster in
the 2nd row
nubbins`: best book cover, runner-up for best place
to get your album art or show posters
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
nubbins`: oh yeah, did i
tell you guys we won a couple awards in
the local arts rag?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i suspect what he means is
that he isn't cool, can't be bothered
to even
try and doesn't ~FEEL~
this shoulkd make any difference.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine
there ever lived a more easy
to hate generation.
mircea_popescu: "I
try
to let my feelings about jed, facebook, and maybe, social entitlment get out of
the way and see
things with logic ripple vs Stellar or both in a basket. I
tried
to get some of
that free STR and me not having a facebook account made
that hard
to impossible and kinda deactivated my unbias view of
the ecosystem."
mircea_popescu: i don't
think anyone puts much value on
the ratings of users
they don't know.
mircea_popescu: well ok. but you know, if
the loan is large enough and
the people involved known enough, it's just business.
mircea_popescu: maybe we
talk of different
things. do you have
the "loan me 10 bitcents for
trust"
things ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: wyrdmantis: generally, asking for and receiving loans is a poor way
to earn
trust << it's not
that bad, is it ?
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
nubbins`: not for making clamshells, more like an air hockey
table in reverse
nubbins`: it got all wrinkly on
the vac
table ;(
nubbins`: i was actually printing a run of posters earlier (pix
to follow) and stopped mid-poster
to scribble down a couple paragraphs of ideas
mircea_popescu: you didn't put any chained
tits on
them or anything did you ?
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, didja ship
the ohio guy
those posters ?
nubbins`: "my husband got in
the wot and all i got was a lousy box of shirts in which a bunch of spiders have
taken up nest"
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell wyrdmantis: i'm confused. Now i need
to get rated in
the wot but don't know how... << generally by doing business with, or perhaps more commonly working for,
the people already in
the wot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's
the sound of mp actually sending
the corp an email
to see if
they want investment or mebbe even ipo.
nubbins`: lots of wikipedia math articles do
that
mircea_popescu: what sort of insane nut puts o(n^3) as AN IMAGE in
the
text.
mircea_popescu: ms. People who have studied
the history of computer science know how important
the Fast Fourier
Transform was. It reduced
the 1-d Fourier
transform from operations
to , opening up vast new applications
to signal processing
techniques.
mircea_popescu: ltiplication doodad will do it in
time, up
to
the limiting size of
the matrices
that can be encoded in such a machine.
This is huge, as most matrix multiplications are for square matrices of size N.
There is all manner of work done on improving matrix multiplication and other forms of matrix math via statistical methods (subject of a coming blog post);
the problem is very important, as is pretty bad on large proble
mircea_popescu: What can it do? Matrix math, basically. Obviously, even
thinking about
this in
the most hand-wavey manner, optical computers should be good at image processing. When you break down what is involved in image processing, matrix math and Fourier
transforms come
to mind. We know how
to do matrix math with optical computers.
The limiting aspect is how many elements you can encode and modulate quickly. An optical matrix mu
mircea_popescu: paper doesn't exactly fight back in
the sense of hitting bad poets over
the head, either.
nubbins`: "you get
to cum like
ten
times a shift"
nubbins`: a large badge
that reads "the man" produces
the same effect as a large stick,
turns out
mircea_popescu: chetty yes,
that's like
the swat
team. working for
the irs is fun, you get
to
talk
to really scared people all
the
time
chetty: EPA and IRS seem
to find stuff
to do
nubbins`: i've seen
tsa agents up-close, most of
them probably did basic math in high school
nubbins`: "Our quality standards are low," one supervisor
told
the investigators.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is
this
the equivalent of "no offense, but fuck you and
that whore of your mother" ?
mircea_popescu: "While quantum computing appears
to be
turning into a multi-decade over-hyped boondoggle of a field,
there is no reason why optical computers might not become important."