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a111: Logged on 2019-01-30 19:40 mircea_popescu: the traditional period greeting among boys, etched as it finds itself in my memory, went "ma, tu poti asa ?" ie, "hey, can you do this ?". girls tended to challenge each other rather to knowledge of particular conventions, "you read so and so book ?! SO DID I!!!"
mircea_popescu: diana_coman entirely possibru! though the ~average~ girl is still no match for the lower placed boys. so i wouldn't call it "can't" properly speaking.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman "retarded" is a term for ~broad~ failure. narrow failure, ie one that can be described on a single node, doesn't seem to meet it.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 16:45 mircea_popescu: in other notes to the self, I was recently looking desperately for that discussion of the static/dynamic infantile error, but gave up in frustration. neverhteless, here it is : http://trilema.com/2016/why-is-that/#selection-221.55-225.273
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:21 mircea_popescu: "the notion that airplanes could reproduce through laying eggs is merely a naive extension, in the vein of 'object A has properties a and b ; object B shares property a and therefore it is reasonable ~~~on a first approximation~~~ to expect it exhibit proerty b'. nevertheless, artifacts differ from nature in that one fundamental aspect, that they're inefficient, and therefore to achieve same ends end up heavy, and in the case
mircea_popescu: diana_coman note that the class of childish notion's wider than the class of amateur tropes.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: xDedic, fxd
a111: Logged on 2014-02-10 01:34 mircea_popescu: people can want in one hand and piss in the other, see which fills first.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman about five years. childish notions are both narrow and misapplied. amateur notions are merely misapplied, but remarkably extensive.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where was the orig hut then ?
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, what's the difference between this "amateur" and "childish"?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (and conversely, all the "but i would treat her right and have great sense of humor" non-"asshole" lament, very much this "whay amateur fails!") << Also why amateur doesn't have girl dancing in kitchen with knife and garlic while sitting at terminal
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo particularly visible in teh female herd, which is why exposure (as per http://trilema.com/2018/le-salaire-de-lidiotie/#footnote_1_78125 discussion) is such a cure-all of femissues.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's 'amateur' sounds moar like sleepwalker than ordinary sleeper tho
asciilifeform: unless i misread thrd, mircea_popescu's implication is that 'amateur' is a type of mental defective
asciilifeform: imho 'ameteur' vs 'pro' is muchly misleading termnology; 'serious' vs dilettante is as i understand exactly what mircea_popescu was discussing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dug for, but failed to find in O(1), Framedragger's 'model airplanes' thrd
a111: Logged on 2019-01-30 18:35 mircea_popescu: consider though -- am i an AMATEUR writer ? and who's a professional, everyone on the nytimes list ? really ?
Mocky: mircea_popescu you're equivocating between being an amateur conceptually and being an amateur at X
asciilifeform: i'm beginning to suspect that mircea_popescu is the last living troo subscriber of s. freud
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e. lasker, for instance, was pro chessist, but amateur go
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought 'amateur' is simply what's left when you subtract folx who bake for money.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, http://btcbase.org/patches/ffa_ch16_miller_rabin.kv << ty phf !
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 16:05 mircea_popescu: it's a pretty sweet item, except for one point : its twin engines together less power than bartholomew.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's current ride quite likely has moarhorse than 'king tiger' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do wonder if the bmw monster's 300 horse, would actually make any useful diff in mud road, vs. the classic zundapp's 10
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: heh, what was it, 2000 rounds/min ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i picture zundapp as invariably with that mg.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform's mechanic (argentine emigre, incidentally) bought 1 coupla yrs ago. the bugger's huge.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we have these here, and they even openly advertise, e.g. 'we'll cement new bathtub into yer old one! 3x cheaper!' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for bonus lulz, there is also the 'duct tape' hypothesis. iirc in zimmerman's orig. 'pgp', ~straight fermat~ ( carmichaelizable! ) was used as the sole litmus.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is consistent with the overall picture.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: '0.61 seconds per iteration of M-R' is also lulzy , in context of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-24#1889742 ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i recently reread your series re primes, and found http://ossasepia.com/2018/01/04/eucrypt-chapter-4-random-prime-number-generator/#selection-111.241-117.155 interesting -- koch fermats 1st, but this dun actually save any cpu under any circumstances. pretty lulzy.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu was the orig 'lead by example' in subj, ran (part of?) his reactor by hand
a111: Logged on 2019-01-30 12:55 diana_coman: so to put this straight: are you saying that the model you describe (proxies directly wired to the order processing backed) would be a liability for CoinBr or what?
jurov: diana_coman: mpex does have website that accepts orders in real time
asciilifeform: ( iirc somebody asked diana_coman same q once )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's episode with the space heater was distinctly reminiscent of late-su
mircea_popescu: https://www.elles-se-mettent-nues-pour-nous.fr/photos/actrice/m_darc_bonus.jpg << mireille d'arc, for the innocent.
asciilifeform: the ru d00d's www is interesting, he makes living in buenosaires by giving ru folx guided tours. and his descriptions of the place moar or less concur with mircea_popescu's : 'unprofessionalism in all possible venues: quality of service in restaurant; lawyers who have nfi about law; clerks who cannot count; cabbies that ask you to show'em the way; barbers who cannot shave... you will wonder why argentines in the airport coming back f
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al : anybody have a handy piece of bash to count ~nonempty~ lines in a dir ?
asciilifeform: guten tag , mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 07:34 mircea_popescu: the problem is, cartels not particularly impressed with usg these days. all was needed to keep assad in power was russia, but a colombia-venezuela-mexico wondertriangle is a lot easier defended.
asciilifeform: diana_coman, mircea_popescu , et al ^
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:09 mircea_popescu: but tbh, the "stochastic convergence test" seems to me worth A LOT more than any bs "ent" ultimately meaningless "squares of pi" bs.
asciilifeform: for instance, 1 'obvious' approach, 2 geigers equidistant from a capsule of radwaste -- also aint it -- you can never actually make the distances equal. ( it's mircea_popescu's 'clocks' thrd all over again, the 'frictionless horse' is not available )
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu unearthed even something from 19th c resembling a proof
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc we had old thrd, re how cryptography never actually reached escape velocity 'out of alchemy' stage of development
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-08#1537407 << see also re 'komyoonity'. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'distinction' ? near as i can tell, it's the 'narrative fiction' where 'you can assume that rng works'. recall the earlier entomo-gem where 'why not use fermat litmus, piano will fall on you before you see carmichael num' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for extra lulz: they drift like hell if denied gsm ( tested with own hands )
a111: Logged on 2019-01-26 04:57 mircea_popescu: and i'm cordially invited to sponsor his delusion. and if i opt not to, he will... RETRY.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't resist to bite : what's 'non-narrative' fiction ?
asciilifeform: diana_coman: coupla of the authors of linked item are at uni of london. think you can get at'em ?
asciilifeform: ^ mircea_popescu , diana_coman , possibly other aficionados ^
phf: unfortunately i failed to make careful note of various vpatch appearances. there's been some by people other than asciilifeform and diana_coman where the author didn't explicitly request a btcbase upload. so if anyone's explicitly missing a vpatch that they want to be up on btcbase, please leave note with me, privmsg also works
asciilifeform: ^ corrected in re diana_coman thread; and no longer relies on the squaring limit conjecture mentioned earlier.
asciilifeform: lol ben_vulpes ex ?!
asciilifeform: guten morgen mircea_popescu , diana_coman
diana_coman: Mocky_, congrats; I guess.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, perhaps re clocks though I keep thinking that the cheap ones were as clocks as current smartphones are computers
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for thread-completeness - same jp folx (and others) also sell a temp-controlled 'oven' xtal, warrantied to 1 ppm. these draw lotsa current, comparatively, and cost 50x moar, so i did not use in FG ( where the accuracy of the oscillator is solely to put out the expected baud rate, and it dun do any good to make it substantially higher than the receiving machine's )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last comment has jpg link, sits in modqueue
mircea_popescu: diana_coman if you think about it, that's strictly impossible. they do indeed show delta time each tick, so it's dead reckoning. how the heck would they produce strictly random time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: done
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to reformulate -- in order for redundancy to do anyffin (whether yer dealing with clocks, or RNGs, or any other instrument) the error gotta be ~uncorrelated~ b/w the units
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you were looking for a 'k vs r -strategy' illustration, this is prolly the worst possible 1. i'dve used , e.g., 'columbus send 3 $maxint boats but vikings did same with 9000 dragonheads costing ~epsilon ea.' or sumthing like it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2019/the-three-watches/#comment-127588
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to reformulate: need proof that the working reg will never equal 1 or n - 1 ~after~ r - 1 shots.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-26 18:16 asciilifeform: speaking of 'where to stop', diana_coman i still dunhave a Troo proof that after r - 1 shots, the squaring loop really does always cycle; so unless i find one, i'ma have to put in a mux there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun fughet to link to prikoke, also, asciilifeform still wont cry, promise.
asciilifeform: speaking of 'where to stop', diana_coman i still dunhave a Troo proof that after r - 1 shots, the squaring loop really does always cycle; so unless i find one, i'ma have to put in a mux there. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't seem to dredge it up in O(1). feel free to cite the summary tho, if writing a piece to laff at asciilifeform , who is big boy and wont cry
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you might be thinking of old flamefest ( possibly with diana_coman & mircea_popescu ) where asciilifeform was asked 'why dontcha quit yer dayjob' and asciilifeform answered 'would consider it, if , like the 2 of you, had enuff coin to permanently leave slave market , with x% engineering margin' or sumthing of the kind
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mountain of gold brick sounds like a lethal overdose, lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-19#1615434 ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly there's >1 !111 got specific thrd in mind ?
asciilifeform: shinohai: see also http://lurkmore.to/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80 ( 'rectothermal cryptoanalyzer' ) .
asciilifeform: diana_coman et al : i'ma rewrite my proofism from beginning, to see if i committed any other atrocity.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: no hole.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: yours is correct.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform elementarily made rubbish on the chalkboard, redoing whole thing nao.
asciilifeform: guten morgen mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: diana_coman: r = 3 indeed. (n - 1)^r mod n == 11^3 mod 12 == 11 == n - 1.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-26 08:58 diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889973 -> didn't rummage as too late yest but woke up this morning with this: when a= n-1 step 2.2 aka y=a^r mod n becomes y= (n-1)^r mod n; using for instance binomial expansion you have (n-1)^r = n^r + rC1*n^(r-1)*(-1)+rC2*n^(r-2)*(-1)^2+....+rC(r-1)*n*(-1)^(r-1)+(-1)^r; since the whole thing was "mod n", of all those terms you are in fact left with only the last one, aka y = (-1)^r mod n ; r is odd so
asciilifeform: diana_coman: bin(12) == 1100 . then r = 2. then, (n - 1)^r mod n == 11^2 mod 12 == 1. 12 is pronounced composite.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: you can trivially see that it correctly judges e.g. 12 to be composite.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it does ~not~ 'always return prime'. only returns prime if (n - 1)^r mod n is 1 or n - 1.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it's a witness for some numbers. like erry other witness-for-some-numbers.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: correct. in implementations where a is forced to <= n - 2, n - 1 is excluded
asciilifeform: diana_coman: 'nothing to do' is because it's a legit witness! algo returns 'prime'. ( and in non-constanttime incarnations, this is the ideal, shortcut case in fact )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: this dun make sense to me;
a111: Logged on 2019-01-25 19:49 asciilifeform: diana_coman: plox to post if you turn it up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: luser on 1 of the big monopoly isps in usa; runs the stock router, which contains a nobu^H^H^Hfree-for-all openrelay
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's yer answr.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's prolly a pnojeist on an underground train, or sumthing equally sad
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~1G/diem is approx what asciilifeform's www shits out. so loox like yer hotlinker-ratpoison worx!
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> Jacob completed his secondary education in Moscow and thereafter studied at Tbilisi State Academy << i read "thereafter" as "therefore" and was very confused/amused for a minute
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: adivino que he's talking about the city hall taxi chargers