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gabriel_laddel: all the data used to perform the computations should have a "warning - unlinked
<location of data, who is responsible for it>" unless a human resolved it to the correct source and bundled it along with the paper
gabriel_laddel: 14:16:34 BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery
<< Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: it was quite clear in '43 that third reich would fall apart
<< is this some bit of original research ?
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> i don't buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat
<< more importantly, isis EXISTS because it was born out of the *previous* iteration of "we didn't really get our asses handed to us like little girls, we were really AIMING to be face down, feet in the air"
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> us includes pretty much the entire planet outside of ru and cn
<< this is ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> if such a thing were to exist - major problems
<< sure it exists. it's how the us navy lost china sea.
BingoBoingo: * ben_vulpes giving the whole armsmithing game away for some reason
<< Railgun?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'well patrolled'
<< i'm pretty sure that 50+ sneak through for every single one busted.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> very basic maths
<< so much so that even i did them in 'uni'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: they're trying for a usg mpex.
<< More like Reddit MPEX
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jurov: they can't sell for over 350k btc..
<< or else? you'll keep selling as many D.CBSE as necessary?
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> that's what D.CBSE price implies
<< actually, no, the price implies they can't sell for over 350k btc at the time they sell.
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> you don't believe they can IPO it at > 46 million?
<< you realise this round was utterly dillutive right ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: IFF mechanism
<< another application for asymmetric crypto.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: homo redditicus
<< can I use this in future qntra articles?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "igla"
<< why must you torture me
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> chetty this has been going on for a while actually.//it just sounds worse when the internet is a public utility
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: and what IS burning man but fuck club ?
<< not entirely this is about 1/3 of it. Another 1/3 is "Holy shit I'm on so many drugs what's even going on, how do I survive, OMG this is so fucking awesome I wanna run around and do nothing cause I have no obligations or worries at the moment." Another 1/3 is "Holy fuck that giant thing is burning holy fuck holy fuck that is fucking awesome." IMO Burns are probably the
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery
<< Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed scanner sometime.
ben_vulpes:
<decimation> what's wrong with enslaving yourself to someone better?,
<asciilifeform> decimation: nothing - it's called army
<< do reconsider la serenissima in this light
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> if someone sent me 100k (magically, tax-free) i'd do... what? take 3 mo. off, spend the next 9 looking for next gig ?
<< good grief your burn rate, man.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> and blondy in black dress over there's almost hawt.
<< reminds me of the intro line newcomers to pdx-burningman were subjected to without fail for years, presumably if the political correctness mob hasn't gotten to them yet still are: "are you hot?"
gabriel_laddel: monkey @ lisp term ?!
<< outside of that, have you ever seen any program written as "fluidly"? Which comes back to the original discussion of "what is intelligence"
gabriel_laddel: if iq tests worked we'd have usable software.
<< see symbolics inc
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> i'd guess that many folks can't even think about this subject without their brain melting from rage
<< a good eighth of my time is spent talking smart young guys down out of a shartup-inspired rage attack
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:05:50; gabriel_laddel: "measuring the fucking crystals"
<< "MPEX is just a bitcoin security exchange, just like any other bitoin security exchange"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but what if your work is meaningless without $b synchrophasotron ?
<<< i thought it was 50k.
decimation: asciilifeform: "-ev"
< it's admittedly the case that 'basic science' seems to be advanced mostly through 'dumb luck'
gabriel_laddel: "measuring the fucking crystals"
<< "MPEX is just a bitcoin security exchange, just like any other bitoin security exchange"
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: but this is not germane to the issue.
<< Oh, but it is. These people are prepared to lie at every turn. See the stack overflow post, or the output of the Eot-wash group. If Al or Stan were make a mistake in the run, they'd never be able to test it again.
gabriel_laddel: iirc, it was an even bet whether the effect - if real - is even large enough to measure with current instrumentation at all
<< this makes a great deal of sense
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu stoner paratrooper
<< fighters have a lot of relaxing to do!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> that could easily be tested.
<< not easily, no. but yes, they could be.
ben_vulpes: "failed to live...and impose their existence upon those children"
<< i'm a bit confused about the "give up, make way for the next generation" attitude when put next to the "parents should impose their existence upon their children".
decimation: asciilifeform: not having an intelligence agency of my own, i regard it as an open question just how usg might behave should it ever begin to lose
< My prediction is 'descent into regional civil war'
decimation: asciilifeform: another colleague of mine is shipping his back as we speak - kernel panics every 20min or so
<< I'm convinced that the 'gpu issue' happens on even more recent macbooks