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mircea_popescu: whole "gavin got consensus" "trump don't got
a chance" bla bla all over again.
BingoBoingo: Qntra'ing in
a few hours after sleeping. There's still enough votes left for Diebold to happen.
mircea_popescu: it's just about all over, there's maybe
a coupla million left to vote.
mircea_popescu: prolly govt collapse, elections,
a few years w/o govt belgium style, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: not like he'd have existed if there wasn't
a usg.pd around. or
a usg in the first place.
BingoBoingo can't wait for when Britain has no one mobile enough to hand over its rag on
a stick!
phf: but it was
a very odd setting, i was hungover like crazy, stumbling around with other throngs of tourists
phf: they had
a bunch of appel books there, mead's introduction to vlsi,
a bunch of old common lisp books, 80s expert system books, etc.
phf: in any case it wasn't portland, i picked it up at
a random bookstore in french quarter new orleans. between
a tourist bar and
a place that sold "vintage stuff" they had
a bookstore with an amazing collection of random books
phf: i was in portland proper an evening, after
a hippie retreat, got it in my head that
a meeting with
a tmsr member needs proper exposition, etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-24 02:50 mircea_popescu: honestly if i wanted to make
a "human brain model" it'd be something like this, 10k chips sitting around 10 GB worth of ram and talking into it dirtily.
phf: actually, i'm ok waiting, i think i'm going to build one of those computers on
a board in the next few months just to get an idea of what connects where
BingoBoingo: In other news corn is looking good, some field are showing visible soybeans. Been
a while since honest rain befell this region.
mircea_popescu: 3.5k transistors is actually not
a bad model for
a neuron, as bugpowder may perhaps attest.
mircea_popescu: honestly if i wanted to make
a "human brain model" it'd be something like this, 10k chips sitting around 10 GB worth of ram and talking into it dirtily.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: especially as you could make
a really large pile of ram
mircea_popescu: large pile of sram with
a bunch of 6502s around it would make
a pretty interesting parallel thing
phf: sort of like if you were to show
a picture of
a girl at
a gulag discussion will be about how she looks like she eats, swiftly moving into what she might've eaten that morning
BingoBoingo: Although the Chicoms now make
a lot of the small petrol motors too
BingoBoingo: Likely will happen when China decides copper is
a strategic good
a111: Logged on 2016-06-24 02:05 phf: i'm sure you've seen cl-6502, and i think there's
a compiler from the same guy (or perhaps cl-6502 has
a compiler too i don't quite remember)
BingoBoingo: If anyone wants
a hole hawg now's the time while TTI is still selling them
mircea_popescu: and from the other perspective, you can have this ensemble in
a baloon and solar powered. etc.
phf: i'm sure you've seen cl-6502, and i think there's
a compiler from the same guy (or perhaps cl-6502 has
a compiler too i don't quite remember)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'd expect they cut corners, what's the budget for "smartening"
a juicer, 15 bux ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-24 01:30 asciilifeform: 'Two months later, on October 1st, as an adjunct to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Robert Strange McNamara started inducting into the military men who previously would not have qualified in
a million years. He called it Project 100,000 ...'
mircea_popescu: well i have nfi. all my memories are clearly from
a different era wtf 20mhz
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you do 4 mults which are iirc 32 cycles each + 3 shifts and 4 additions, for
a grand total of ~200
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually long multiply as squares and sums is not half of
a bad idea, because binary processor.
mircea_popescu: there's an immense pile of these, they all sound the same, it's
a whole subculture.
mircea_popescu: this is actually romanian. gypsy wanna-be sampled
a video of orchestra, put his track on top
mircea_popescu: people in my (and i guess also your) part of the world did
a lot of traveling around europe while staying home
mircea_popescu: i've but
a vague memory, i keep about as close tabs on this shitshow as i do on github.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger afair it had
a deal back in 2010ish ? with twitter too ; then twitter backed out, was
a bit of
a scandal, then i gues fb backed out quietly.
mircea_popescu: they got
a problem don't they ? missing out on most of the shannonized / markov chained "content" production these days
Framedragger: no see they'll renegotiate
a better ttip deal, all by themselves
mircea_popescu: but i mean, the predictions throughout are
a complete joke. newcastle predicted 66/33 actual 50/49
mircea_popescu: aha, but enemy hasn't, for
a while, then we started talking about it and welll...
thestringpuller: phf: i'll have to write lisp to import it into
a new sql db
trinque: intention being to replace the sql db with
a CLOS one when I bother
trinque: I should hit this thing with
a bot and run his bandwidth bill up
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 17:36 asciilifeform: the peter todd turd is
a true classic of its genre: 'we gotta commit an atrocity. but we first will get CONSENSOOOS!!1111 so then it won't be an atrocity, fuckyou. and btw we control the vertical and the horizontal and all the votez, so fuckyou.x2'
mircea_popescu: clinical pcp is
a lot more boring, in general, but not universally.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 16:32 trinque: G4S has previously been accused of improperly vetting its employees. In 2009, Danny Fitzsimons,
a former British paratrooper and employee of
a G4S subsidiary, killed two colleagues in Iraq, claiming to be “the antichrist” and saying he “must satisfy” his “bloodlust.” << wouldn't blow my mind that $lizardhitler has
a drug that induces this
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 16:19 asciilifeform: random fire dun hit much in
a 3d world.
mircea_popescu: i'm in the enviable position of not really needing
a cv for anything.
mircea_popescu: which they intend to CHANGE anyway, so it's
a bit iffy to bake for the idiots.