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mircea_popescu: you've not been following along, there's
a department of us army intelligentsia which is putting together an anally insertable quantum computer out of 2T and 0.001 kelvin
a111: Logged on 2017-01-25 12:13 mircea_popescu: o right, also need
a 2T field on at all times.
mircea_popescu: anyway, check him out, everyone wants his porn industry to be "the reliable bridge" between "pure STEM R&D" and "free market consumerism". everyone's
a tindr, getting the weird shy boys in the slimy wet bed of expectant females, dontchakno. hurr durr an'
a bottle o' dross.
mircea_popescu: as
a bonus, ofcourse, hitachi pretty much owns neodymium magnets, and china pretty much owns everything to do with all the other rare earths also.
mircea_popescu: imagine that, mass produced consumer items doing
a magnetic flux density of 2 tesla!
mircea_popescu: but jay b huwieler ain't got no time to read the fucking article he's linked the (horrible) summary of, nor to understand wtf maintaining
a 2T field costs, or for that matter milikelvin temperatures. fuck that, "now ensures that existing manufacturing facilities and processes can be more-easily upgraded to mass-produce quantum computational devices (QCD), in turn ostensibly reducing the time-to-market estimate for enterprise
mircea_popescu: anyway,
https://archive.is/0yq1G is the actual published item if anyone cares. tl;dr : dorks aware of which side bread is buttered created
a silicone lattice with captive phosphorus on
a plane, put wires on top and bottom and can now pump electrons into the so captured phosphorus. this DOES SOMETHING (tm).
mircea_popescu: "In the team's conceptual design, they have moved from
a one-dimensional array of qubits, positioned along
a single line, to
a two-dimensional array, positioned on
a plane that is far more tolerant to errors. This qubit layer is "sandwiched" in
a three-dimensional architecture, between two layers of wires arranged in
a grid."
mircea_popescu: silicone is used in electronics because of specific properties of its crystal lattice (it acts as
a good substrate for dopants, resulting in nonlinear circuit elements). there's exactly nothing that recommends it over something like aerogel, or someone's stained tie, for the purpose of "quantum computing"
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does this pass someone's filter ? so the dorks trying to push
a scam decided the one thing that'd best improve the flavour of credibility would be spurious relation to existing practice, so now it's SILICON quantum computers, and you buy this, and even underline it of your own volition, as if it were
a thing just because you wish it to be ?
mircea_popescu: "While the last two decades have seen unambiguous experimental progress developing the science of Quantum Computation, there has never been
a feasible, physical architecture developed upon which to scale-up the actual Computer itself. Not until today. Further, the success of specifically
a ~silicon~ chip architecture now ensures that existing manufacturing facilities and processes can be more-easily upgraded" (emphasis his).
mircea_popescu: "October 2015, scientists at the University of New South Wales announced the successful design of
a single-atom qubit 3D silicon chip architecture, making significant progress toward building
a full-scale, operational Quantum Computer."
mircea_popescu slathers even more beouf salad on top of lovingly homemade sourdough. you know that's real mayo, made by hand out eggs yes ? and that the womenz cook every day or else there's terrible consequences ? o look, there's half
a pot of delicious soup! maybe i'll order some pie. which means - i say make pie, they make pie.
davout: protip if one ever tries to order food there: ask what they have, don't waste your time trying to order fancy shit like "
a burger", "
a wrap" or any other nonsense
ben_vulpes: even has search, although
a very naive postgres full-text, not the "omfg exactly like grep" asciilifeform made phf build
mircea_popescu: well if you're patient enough im penning
a reply to your latest comment so we can continue from there
ben_vulpes: eheh in other dependent hacks, dog wanted to destroy things the child was throwing, so i gave the child
a lemon to throw around. dog will chase, but not retrieve the lemon.
danielpbarron: oh, from who can I get
a copy of mp-wp ? my blog box seems to have crapped out once and for all. figure it's
a good excuse to migrate to something better
mircea_popescu: the way things shape up, this current nazism is actually
a lot more insane than the original german version. holy shit, what, you want to kill ~men~ ?!
mircea_popescu: fancy that wonder,
a new model army of old strippers and youthful gramas, dedicated to the global fight against the tribe of 6 foot 2 "overly" aggressive Alpha males pumping testosterone out their pores.
mircea_popescu: so brutish and nasty, that Warriors too must be. That is simply not accurate." << apparently you can get random dork to support the termiting, also, for as long as you call him
a "chinese linguist" or w/e the fuck.
mircea_popescu: "What is not accurate is the false and felonious image of the U.S. military on which the defense of her conduct has been, at its root, predicated: that somehow everyone in her formative years in the military was practically part of
a tribe of 6’2”, overly-aggressive Alpha males pumping testosterone out their pores who ganged up on the smallest in the group and tore her apart out of hyper-machismo intolerance; that War is
mircea_popescu: basically the us army is
a ridiculous menagerie. AND the whole fucking point, from the pov of the obama DoS, is exactly that it not only stay that way, but never again become an actual army.
mircea_popescu: her, so she joined up with the Americans instead. Charlie 82d had dads in their mid-thirties, and it had dads not yet old enough to buy beer. My platoon had
a single mom who had been working as an exotic dancer before she raised her right hand and took the oath; another had married young, got divorced and wanted to get as far away from her Ex as possible; she figured the Middle East was probably far enough, but if he tried t
mircea_popescu: One recruit in fourth platoon had been homeless before he joined, and another had blown his entire first university semester’s tuition on OxyContin before he dropped out and enlisted. One recruit was
a Mexican citizen who was willing to go to Iraq and fight for the United States in exchange for expedited citizenship. Another was
a female with dual German/American citizenship who was so short, the German Army wouldn’t take
mircea_popescu: d
a former coffee distributor in South America in his mid-thirties who everyone still called “Grandpa.” One recruit ironically named “Goesforth” went AWOL within 48 hours of arrival, deserted the military, and was never seen again.
mircea_popescu: "In 2007, the U.S. Army was habitually failing to meet its monthly recruiting goals; the application standards relaxed and
a great cross-section of humanity ended up reporting for duty that warm October at Fort Leonard Wood. In the company, there was
a 17-year-old who had enlisted with
a waiver, and there was:
a 42-year-old mother of three who was terrified of needles;
a new grandmother to
a brand-new infant granddaughter; an
mircea_popescu: dude's not very perceptive. manning evidently comes from
a broken home, which instilled the expectation that Mommy is somehow significantly more powerful than Daddy.
mircea_popescu: "At the end of the field exercise, that holdover was walking up to groups of us, offering to sell us candy for $20
a package. We all knew to keep our distance from him – he was untrustworthy, he was in trouble, and he was only going to get you in trouble too if you associated with him. And yet, Chelsea Manning bought
a package of M&Ms from him for $20. I remember that scene, because Manning was not quiet about it. She was p
ben_vulpes: our options are to scratch in the dirt or pretend that
a life made of plastic is worth living.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-24 01:51 phf: (fwiw last time i checked in with clasp, it was also dog slow, probably
a combination of insane technology tower and lack of optimization strategy, that all goes back to original point "writing lisp is hard")
a111: Logged on 2017-01-24 01:16 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-23#1606170 << no, and i think it's
a combination of "scaring" and complexity. takes
a lot of effort to build one from scratch. clim's beach actually tried building one, SICL
https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL which is closest to "compartmenalized", but i'm not sure where it is. probably heavy WIP stage. (and reading the ilc slides it seems like it's beach/mcclim style overengineered)
adlai:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-24#1606296 << SICL's status makes
a lot more sense in-context: "It is intentionally divided into many implementation-independent modules that are written in
a totally or near-totally portable way, so as to allow other implementations to incorporate these modules from SICL, rather than having to maintain their own, perhaps implementation-specific versions"
☝︎ phf: (fwiw last time i checked in with clasp, it was also dog slow, probably
a combination of insane technology tower and lack of optimization strategy, that all goes back to original point "writing lisp is hard")
☟︎ phf: well, you can probably write an evaluator for lisp core (and host something like sicl on top), but the result is going to be dog slow, at which point you'll have to work out an optimization strategy that's not going to leave scaring. that's
a long and careful project, an anathema in open source
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-23#1606170 << no, and i think it's
a combination of "scaring" and complexity. takes
a lot of effort to build one from scratch. clim's beach actually tried building one, SICL
https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL which is closest to "compartmenalized", but i'm not sure where it is. probably heavy WIP stage. (and reading the ilc slides it seems like it's beach/mcclim style overengineered)
☝︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: by my read it's
a small side thing they provide to get as much ops cognition to happen through their tooling as possible
ben_vulpes: i made people read corinthians at standup for
a while
danielpbarron: shinohai, it didn't. you need
a colon between chapter and verse(s)
danielpbarron: if you could find
a NKJV to put in there, it would keep most things on
a single line, but KJV is always 1 verse 1 line
danielpbarron: used to be
a very nice qntra-esque interface but "upgraded" to web2.0
a few years ago.
mats: its mind numbing, i did actually play chess on paper as
a mental exercise for some weeks
mats: asciilifeform:
a coupla hours per day were dedicated just to standing around waiting for shit to happen, ie, waiting for the cattle trucks to appear so they could shuttle recruits to the training sites
mats: my time in OSUT was
a breeze and mostly an exercise in schadenfreude, its
a cake walk unless you're mentally unstable or
a fatbody
mircea_popescu: no fucking way. IF it has 20k users it's
a wonder. and those 20k users are indians doing vaguely anal sexthings to each other.
danielpbarron: got
a lot more unrates but maybe i'll keep those out of the chan as it's mostly just cleaning out names that i haven't seen in years
mircea_popescu: anyway, i thought aa people were very gingerly careful to not say they're
a religion.
mircea_popescu: well ? chicks loyal to her son's father which didn't do much for her yet nevertheless bb shouldn't be allowed to like the club that fixed
a problem for him ?
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: i'm
a bit surprised
a segwit stoolie ranks as positive in your book
deedbot: danielpbarron updated rating of diana_coman from 3 to 4 << Anyway
a shrewd negotiator anyway
deedbot: danielpbarron updated rating of BingoBoingo from 3 to 2 << Obnoxiously dedicated to republican memes and
a promoter of false religions
trinque: the same happened to me; they then reverted me to
a quite old version of them.
phf: namecheap just lost my domain records. i would not have known about it, if fastmail didn't send me
a notification, that mx records have changed..
mircea_popescu: place aspires to be an empire, best it can produce is
a tacticool newb.
mircea_popescu:
a nigger called theresa may misusing ancient and dysfunctional "nuclear weapons" is not substantially different from
a nigger called antron singleton going from diner table to diner urinal with an antitank rocket launcher in each hand
BingoBoingo: There's
a reason why it's the classic explanation
mircea_popescu: (the lulz here, for noobs, is that in classical medicine mental derangement was deemed
a major driver of being fat)
phf: apropos,
http://btcbase.org/log/?nick=phf will highlight all the messages from and to nick (it's half baked, like it doesn't get preserved when you switch pages, but i have the logs bookmarked that way, so that i can see if i got mentioned at
a glance)
BingoBoingo: "He put down his brandy in
a plastic cup and looked at me."
BingoBoingo: “It’ll be turmoil for four years. He’s like
a firecracker in
a keg of dynamite.”
mircea_popescu: so talk to the spammers, buy
a server farm setup with
a few dozen ips and use it for your purpose purpose. as you won't get blacklisted nobody will give
a shit. bout $50/ip/month is where the market is now, can readily bill your employer triple and if he won't pay ditch him on the spot.
Framedragger: (project is to build
a 'roboadvisor' for real estate. use past real estate purchase price data to build time series, also use near-realtime rental data, combine all into
a training set for
a model which predicts what's worth to invest in. (not my project idea but i'll be doing some dev work for it.) will need to scrape things which don't particularly like to be scraped. need addresses. "make real estate more transparent")
Framedragger: hey mircea_popescu, you still got
a bunch of ipv4 addresses available? are they under
a single /16? i may be interested in purchasing/leasing them from you for
a non-tmsr related project
Framedragger: "Quora walked in to an investor meeting, stated these facts as plainly as I have, and walked out with
a check for eighty million dollars. That's the power of investor storytime. "
Framedragger: "on in new funding at
a $900 million valuation. Their stated reason for taking the money was to postpone having to think about revenue. "
Framedragger: quora is ~cancer in my books, and i have higher tolerance level than say alf. so that tells ya something :D but seriously, quora is
a ridiculous site run by
a ridiculous "company". to quote maciej / idlewords, "Quora's declared competitor is Wikipedia,
a free site that not only doesn't make revenue, but loses so much money they have to ask for donations just to be broke. Recently, Quora raised $80 million in new funding at
a $900 milli
mircea_popescu: quora page has been loading for > 20 seconds now, doing half
a dozen post requests in tyhe process. what the fuck hayseeds must one have for brains to do
a POST on page load holy shit, just build your pages correctly, there's absolutely no reason any webpage has to post without user interaction.
mircea_popescu: dude these "responsive" web 2.0 ajax site are
a sad display.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck they manage to go through that lengthy opus on "constitutional violations" without for
a second stopping to point out that the ONLY reason this is possible is because THEY forced an idiot into the office because he happened to be mulatto is anyone's guess. seriously, nobody over at rolling stone notices this ? eight years of bahamas pissing on the constitution is what allows everyone else now to do the same ?
Framedragger: re. vc blog, he's using
a let's encrypt cert, and archive.is doesn't seem to like that cert also. :/