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mp_en_viaje: a) who's doing the mega-logger ? i suppose i should quietly merge it into
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-01#1910378 ; give him a taste of "
0,
1,
infinity" especially as it works when everyone's sitting on ass "what's your opinion on this thing i read about on wikipedia", ie "every one turns into an
infinity", huh.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: so they did what they do, "band together and preternd on a
1.
1 >
0 even if
1 != the
infinity it should be"
mircea_popescu: there's in fact two separate problems. one of them is that large walls of robot generated text are hostile to human habitation. the OTHER however, is that the news value of the first factor of a modulus exceeds the news value of all subsequent factors summed by degrees of magnitude, because of the
0,
1 infinity rule.
a111: Logged on 2015-06-14 16:31 mircea_popescu: that's ok, the rule is
0 1 infinity.
mircea_popescu: similarity, specificity, standardisation.
0,
1,
infinity.
mircea_popescu off to ammend the rule,
0 ,
1, infitnity MINUS ONE,
infinity.
mircea_popescu: on the
0 1 infinity scale i readily see why
1 rather than
0, i just don't grok why
infinity rather than one.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly what happened : some engineer made
1/
0 shorthand for
infinity trying to fit their code into the insect
mircea_popescu: "You discover that one day, some idiot decided that since another idiot decided that
1/
0 should equal
infinity, they could just use that as a shorthand for "
Infinity" when simplifying their code. Then a non-idiot rightly decided that this was idiotic, which is what the original idiot should have decided, but since he didn't, the non-idiot decided to be a dick and make this a failing error in his new compiler. Then he d
mircea_popescu:
0,
1,
infinity rule. either nobody knows who he is, which clearly can't be the case,
benkay:
0 information leakage is a secret kept by
1 person. some information leakage happens when more than
1 person knows stuff. eventually, all information will leak.
infinity?