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mod6: yeah, your hand got away from you and knocked over
a glass, which promptly went into Mr. P.'s lap.
davout: mircea_popescu: i didn't "pour
a bottle on your head", i accidentally'd
a wine ~glass~, at least that's what i remember!
mod6: yeah, same. maybe he'll be back when he has
a bit more time.
mod6: Or at least, iirc we talked about it for
a bit.
mod6: Got to talk with chetty
a good long while this evening too.
danielpbarron: indiancandy, eulora is
a program you can run on windows and effectively use as
a bitcoin wallet, without having to mess around with the block chain directly
mircea_popescu: davout knows, he poured
a wine bottle on my head there for some reason.
jurov: i would if you were
a boy model :)
danielpbarron: you should get into Eulora. that's
a great easy way to hold btc
mircea_popescu: there's
a bunch of camho sites that will pay you in bitcoin too i think
indiancandy: so im thinkin of buyin
a few hundred pounds
mircea_popescu: (
a properly functioning woman is only distinct from
a fighter-bomber in that she eats better smelling fuel. everything else -- same, fired from own hangar or boat, virtually undetectable en route, leaves behind trail of devastation etc.)
a111: Logged on 2017-01-11 19:10 asciilifeform: incidentally if this were me, i'd make
a voyage-only wot key, rate it +1, then at the end, when getting back to home, sign statement 'my voyage key was uneventfully used N times and then incinerated' or 'pygmies stole my voyage key K and signed audacious forgeries F1, F2...' depending on how it went.
davout: asciilifeform phf thanks! i'll look into it, gonna start with clhs until i get back to
a country where amazon delivers
phf: typically people recommend
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and it's
a sort of "rails for beginners" kind of book, but i think best cl option is
http://www.norvig.com/paip.html. norvig's paradigms of artificial intelligence programming. it's not so much about "ai", but about some very useful symbolic algorithms, written in ~very elegant~ lisp code
phf: 2 hours of battery is
a bit sad, but i'm not planning on "working from
a coffee shop" either
phf: yeah, i'm just building
a typing laptop. probably going to take it to india with me instead of main machine. can't really afford getting it stolen, and don't want to bother with proper compartmentalization
phf: "The system works by periodically reporting back to
a central authority. In the event of theft, the central authority can instruct the resident agent to wipe all information as
a security measure, or to track the whereabouts of the system, to help recover the stolen items via subsequent law enforcement activities"
phf: ooh
a patched on.. i take it you hand patched it, rather than compile from some leaked source?
phf: excellent, thank you very much. that just saved me
a day's worth of upfront poking
phf: asciilifeform: do you happen to have
a pruned config for linux kernel on x60?
mircea_popescu: i'm also vaguely curious which 2nd rate herp is going to, in
a decade or two, "innovatively" write down "his" ideas about the new novel and the future of authorship.
mircea_popescu: the "authorship" bullshit / englithment fiction really went as far as it could go. in fact,
a lot further than it should have ever went.
mircea_popescu: in any case should be interesting once the v model takes hold for novel-writing, and no novel is anything but what it was meant to be :
a tree.
mircea_popescu: which means you'll end up with
a complicated pile of cutters servicing one photoghrapher.
mircea_popescu: ah like
a polisher. mebbe. it will necessarily move some of the unerlying though.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's good physics why you can't have
a reliable microtome.
Framedragger: (iirc i had suggested elena (2011) but iirc it's of
a similar colour palette hmh)
Framedragger: "singles are given 45 days to find
a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into animals."
mircea_popescu: very nice two-year-apart binome of
a) girl wanna-be woman in the ustardian vein ; b) girl recounting (retardedly) the failure of the attempt.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski in the end, i wrote
a continuation to hanbot 's thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-11 14:15 mircea_popescu: the reason playing loose works in poker is the same reason you can keep
a camp dormful of teenage girls awake until 6am by hiding
a tape with giggles on it that plays every 5 to 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: sooo, i feel like translating ; anyone has
a trilema piece they've been wanting in english ?
mircea_popescu: the reason playing loose works in poker is the same reason you can keep
a camp dormful of teenage girls awake until 6am by hiding
a tape with giggles on it that plays every 5 to 10 minutes
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski ftr, poker needs no such thing as "ai". poker is
a deterministic game if you wish, can program machine to play extremely tight, will beat most humans.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 02:39 phf: i once read grothendieck's récoltes et semailles, which is
a kind of an autobiography
pete_dushenski: 'deepstack' be his name, poker be his game. smashed
a couple dozen pros over 44k hands. some recognisable pro names even.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: musta been one of those new-fangled volvos/ford/hondas/mercs that stops for you. lucky you.
a family friend's grandson wasn't so lucky when he was backed over and killed by... his own grandfather. couple years ago now.
ben_vulpes: i had nfi what joy could be had watching people play with
a toy you made out of two tin cans and
a string
mircea_popescu: but the solution of course would be, i'll register
a key for it and have it speak the !!v string.
mircea_popescu: phf my reasoning was, that he was having
a meaningless dispute with ben_vulpes ; possibly understood it to be meaningless ; and possibly therefore attempted to go upnode. that the selection of upnode wasn't judicious can't be held against him specifically because no standing.
phf: aying. first of all, you don't use setup question technique unless you have standing, it's at least partially rhetorical. second of all, when you do, you don't drag it out. i dismissed him at that point as
a tedious bore, which he turned out to be
phf: well, he opened with
a "scale issue", but when started getting concrete answers from ben_vulpes "backtracked" but doing one of those setup questions, "do you believe in freedom?" sort of thing. ben_vulpes refused to eat the bait. that's where you either switch tactic or close the setup "well, if you believe in freedom then you obviously believe in bombing them sons of bitches". but instead of closing he started nitpicking whatever ben_vulpes was s