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mircea_popescu: now THIS would be quantum-ish computer that kinda-might-work
mircea_popescu: it is in fact (the method described) an application of laser interferometry, which is precisely how you'd do the tower-of-light solver.
mircea_popescu: it only has the appeal of the unknown, as in who knows what pie we find turning over this pot.
mircea_popescu: not all truths are useful and not all usefuls are true.
mircea_popescu: that part i believe ; but as to the science rather than the engineering of it.
mircea_popescu: eg, item indeed dun exist but no obvious reason why it couldn't be made.
mircea_popescu: and so in these terms, the question becomes "if you substract nothing from something an infinite number of times, what're you left with ?"
mircea_popescu: of course the computronist would think mod 0 is "an op that dun terminate". but in any case, the "divide by x" approach to calculating a mod is just shorthand, not fundamental. mod is defined in terms of substraction (take x and y, substract y from x until remainder sub y), has nothing to do with multiplication side of the number ring.
mircea_popescu: the other school of course says mod 0 is an indifferent op, ie 18 mod 0 = 18
mircea_popescu: this is because of set theoretic considerations whereby increases in the mod parameter increase the pile of possible results, eg mod 2 is 0 or 1
mircea_popescu: fwiw, in my universe mod 0 is defined, and has the value 0.
mircea_popescu: phf you know, for all the foibles, 1970s pop icons DID try a sort of very brusque, uninformed and "hi i come from the trailer park" alf-boat. hence cocksucker blues and the large touring busses.
mircea_popescu: yes, but putting that in the log is like putting the goop in the woman. so much fun to do you keep doing it.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's nothing capitalist about it whatsoever ; capitalism does order the disordered symbols in similar manner as longhand does, as an act of civilisation and a point of manifest superiority pointedly absent from the work (or generally ustardian mentality today)
mircea_popescu: also lulzy, in simiular vein, though i wouldn't for a moment call it "capitalist hell". it is pure and simple collapse among the symbols, as typified in teh elevator scene.
mircea_popescu: (no, the present socialism isn't the first to run headfirst into the female brick wall. who could have predictered!)
mircea_popescu: afaik "fuchsia herring" never gained coinage in ru, but honestly it's a much better name for "black chicks code" than "black chicks code"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "and then newton sat down to write three laws" exactly it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a pity all the cancerous fags passing for comedians in pantsuit circles are crowding out the real talent which might be writing exceptional xharms pieces on the basis of current idiocy.
mircea_popescu: you can not mark them for the latter, i guess, but the point must be made that no, NOTHING EVER STOPS.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imo it's very fucking stupid to show kids how to do plain division by hand, but then NOT also show them how to do square roots. it fucks up the whole purpose ofd the whole thing, paring down a tree branch to a single item.
mircea_popescu: (it didn't help that it was in the torah of the time, as per saint habarnam gospels, "only blockprinted")
mircea_popescu: because srslty now who the fuck block prints if they ever went to school..
mircea_popescu: after which we had kid council, decided guy is not really a teacher.
mircea_popescu: and he proceeded to blockprint. which was about as shocking as if he had taken off pants in class.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is wrong with people these days, i do not know, but i do recall as early teens, 12 yo or so, there was this very exciting moment in school when they imported AN AMERICAN!!! to do some english classes. this was you know, wild wild stuff at the time.
mircea_popescu: very evidently what it does. at least to the sort of people who learned how to write in longhand and do square roots by hand
mircea_popescu: is that 100 or 150 related to a particular bitsize ? 8096 ?
mircea_popescu: and since i've this piled in here : to ~multiply~ 349087340 by 3059056 : you create a list 22 items long, that is 29 + 22 bits wide, and you proceed writing down 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0110 1100 in it bit-shifted 22 times, nulled on occasion. then you add these terms. right ?
mircea_popescu: wtf "wrodwise" ? the only way to do division is divisor-bitsize
mircea_popescu: we continue comparing the divisor, adding bits from the divident's tail and substracting the divident until we run out of digits, at which time we have the remainder. every time we substract we mark down an 1, every time we add digits from the divident's tail we mark down a 0.
mircea_popescu: 3. we substract the divisor from this fragment of the divident, obtaning 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 01 - 10 1110 1010 1101 0111 0000 = 10 0100 1000 1101 0010 1001 (aka 2395433).
mircea_popescu: 2. we select the first 22 bits of the dividend, to wit 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0 and we compare the divisor to it. as the divisor is larger, we add one further bit, obtaining 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 01.
mircea_popescu: 1. we notice that 349087340 being 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0110 1100 is 29 bits long. we further notice that 3059056 being 10 1110 1010 1101 0111 0000 is 22 bits long.
mircea_popescu: this is the stupidest shit i ever heard. gimme two numbers.
mircea_popescu: well, it's the core of the combustion engine, innit ? continuously-variably-voluminous.
mircea_popescu: there's some common language overload that seems to make "mechanism" preferable, but it's slight and who cares.
mircea_popescu: pure historical accident. you'd rather call it circuit ?
mircea_popescu: this new item is to my eyes fundamental pillar of "fit in head", because a thoroughly well understood mechanism can then be relegated to background and built upon.
mircea_popescu: W, precisely, it is to be obtained. this is why the concept of "function" as heretofore used is not useful in republican computing, and we must introduce a new item.
mircea_popescu: oh btw, should prolly formalize the function/mechanism thing from yest a bit. so, a function (in the correct, math understanding, a "procedure" in cs lingo is no different, which is why lisp hasn't "procedures") denotes correct results, but does not connote any particular method of obtaining them. this is no good for us, in many military applications, where we must actually specify not merely WHAT is being sought, but also HO
mircea_popescu: i can't say that i know. what complexity is our current item ?
mircea_popescu: now, good insulation DOES model the flow of heat, ie the hotter outer part will cool more before it touches your sram, so not entirely useless.
mircea_popescu: yes but only because you fry intermittently. computer is always on.
mircea_popescu waves at phf. check it out, we can wreck your logs for multiple days in a row!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you realise thermic isolation is a time function, yes ? eventually all parts of assemblage do end up in thermic equilibrium, there's no pill for this. insulation just makes it take longer is all.