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[Best non-ironic usage of bullet-time class of edits.] PEx: s/entropy/surprisal/? (Just a nod to Memorious, for the now) REx: to keep, barely, out of my Consc

[Best non-ironic usage of bullet-time class of edits.] PEx: s/entropy/surprisal/? (Just a nod to Memorious, for the now) REx: to keep, barely, out of my Conscious, using lagniappes. L (for the plainsmen): https://youtu.be/FspytbymxpI https://youtu.be/FspytbymxpI EDIT: the ironic (Kutznets哈哈）thing about Mongols, they overwhelmed the other barbarians with advanced tech (gunpowder, siege engines, biowarfare) but now we admire their neolithic technik.

082349872349872 2y ago
Pedantry: spear-throwers (atlatls) were neolithic; composite bows are more bronze age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_bow#Origins_and_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_bow#Origins_and_use
- vinnyvichy 2y ago
  By golly I did it again! Ok. That prompted me to look for spectral evidence :) >specimens of compound bows with bone backing in Serovo graves https://www.jstor.org/stable/276490 https://www.jstor.org/stable/276490 Might be pushing the definition?
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Sorry, I only have access to the preview. I find it plausible, though, that compound bows might've been invented in the neolithic (assuming one already has the adhesive technology to haft spear points), but never became popular until the bronze-age development of horseback riding because until then having a smaller bow (that was both heavier and took over 5x as long to make) was little advantage for a lot of disadvantage.
    - vinnyvichy 2y ago
      https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/276490 https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/276490 P7
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        Aha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_Archaeology_Project#Research_objectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_Archaeology_Project#Res... Serovo is just before 5000 YBP (3000 BC), and locally late neolithic, but that's because Siberia has no chalcolithic, so neolithic gets directly succeeded by the bronze age. Given the uncertainty of dating back then (some people believe riding had already been invented, others that it would not be for some time after), I'm happy to consider those as possible or even likely compound bows. Sorry for leading us in circles with the pedantry!
        vinnyvichy 2y ago
        No prob, that led to my exploration of whether horses might have been used in the area around that time. Maybe you want to be a bit more killer to improve communication? As for the chipping stuff, I'm quite certain (despite your PhD????) gaussian noise has been assumed somewhere, so right now I'm searching around for serious attempts (not just proposals) to try to use, say, squeezing, to get below the shannon(-hartley?) limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_coherent_state#Applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_coherent_state#Applic... I had the choice of starting with Geroch or Bamberg+Sternberg and I went with the cleaner notation and crappier words, might not have been prudent. Okay maybe you weren't as familiar with french academic activism as fencing (although maybe you might still ask your local experts about recent rule changes with respect to say Korean dominance in sabre -- curious about what is it that the Koreans know that is so unteachable, plus, people getting upset might be a good sign) Point was, if Murderous Saint Ted was raised a physicist, he might have found socially acceptable ways to get his messaging out ( I don't know, preaching to pliant students?) buuuuut I would think that's still suboptimal.
        082349872349872 2y ago
        Botai culture was before, but whether it was close enough to be in the area and whether they rode as well as ate their equines are both open q's. Interesting, I had been talking about chipping not in the quantum regime, but in the classical[0] and metaphorical[1] regimes. Sorry, I had thought I had the referent to be J-Y G, as I'm currently in the middle of The Blind Spot[2] and enjoying how he'll discuss something foundational in mathematical logic one moment and the next he'll make a social or political observation. (as does Körner, but Girard is more gallic and more so) 泰德干公 (am I doing this right?) might've done better as a physicist, but (unlike, say, Pol Pot) thankfully he combined revolutionary[3] fervour with a human-organisational capability unlikely to have been up to running a church bake sale[4]. Finally, I really enjoyed 187: > in making such appeal care should be taken to avoid misrepresenting the truth or doing anything else that would destroy the intellectual respectability of the ideology. I mean, nothing says intellectual respectability like claiming "I needed to do a few small bad things (like killing people) in order to publish my manifesto in which I worry about big good things (like upholding copyright)"[5] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum#:~:text=Moreover%2C%20for%20a,exists%20at%20all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum#:~:text=Moreov.... [1] in which Algolia, rather than high dot products, allow us to reconstitute a more-or-less linear convo [2] I'm not very convinced by the circularity argument, because if I wish to ground out boolean logic, I'm happy to either present either a truth table, or if I must, just define `∧` to be the symmetric, idempotent binary operator that tends to falsity, and so on... However, I am intrigued by his program to escape to the geometric (or at least topologic) from the algebraic, in an attempt to make the equivalent classes of proofs more explicitly syntactic and less implicitly semantic. [3] TIL that "revisionist" may not (etymologically) have meant that someone had gone off-commie-message, but that they had gone off-revolutionary-message, in that they believed it might be possible, by making a series of incremental revisions, to accomplish the stated goals of The Revolution without bothering with all the unpleasantness that tends to accompany actual revolutions. In this sense I suppose I am both an earnest Bumble-Puppy[6] advocate and a card-carrying capital-R Revisionist. [4] even on personal, not organisational, axes there are lacunae in dealing with volunteers; eg (exactly like certain segments of HN) Ted/"FC" advocates large family sizes for others, despite failing to adequately demonstrate any personal reproductive success. [5] see his note to note 16. [6] He was at least consistent in choosing to emulate "When Adam delved, and Eve(cf [4]) span" (although aren't postal services post-technological?), but I know quite a few people who have both pre-technological and "surrogate" interests, and while all of us enjoy visiting the pre-technological, we've all opted for living in the "surrogate" world.
vinnyvichy 2y ago
Fratricidal hardware
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  for those with I M P E / R I A L finger tats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk

082349872349872 2y ago

Pedantry: spear-throwers (atlatls) were neolithic; composite bows are more bronze age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_bow#Origins_and_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_bow#Origins_and_use

vinnyvichy 2y ago
By golly I did it again! Ok. That prompted me to look for spectral evidence :) >specimens of compound bows with bone backing in Serovo graves https://www.jstor.org/stable/276490 https://www.jstor.org/stable/276490 Might be pushing the definition?
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Sorry, I only have access to the preview. I find it plausible, though, that compound bows might've been invented in the neolithic (assuming one already has the adhesive technology to haft spear points), but never became popular until the bronze-age development of horseback riding because until then having a smaller bow (that was both heavier and took over 5x as long to make) was little advantage for a lot of disadvantage.
  - vinnyvichy 2y ago
    https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/276490 https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/276490 P7
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      Aha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_Archaeology_Project#Research_objectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_Archaeology_Project#Res... Serovo is just before 5000 YBP (3000 BC), and locally late neolithic, but that's because Siberia has no chalcolithic, so neolithic gets directly succeeded by the bronze age. Given the uncertainty of dating back then (some people believe riding had already been invented, others that it would not be for some time after), I'm happy to consider those as possible or even likely compound bows. Sorry for leading us in circles with the pedantry!
      - vinnyvichy 2y ago
        No prob, that led to my exploration of whether horses might have been used in the area around that time. Maybe you want to be a bit more killer to improve communication? As for the chipping stuff, I'm quite certain (despite your PhD????) gaussian noise has been assumed somewhere, so right now I'm searching around for serious attempts (not just proposals) to try to use, say, squeezing, to get below the shannon(-hartley?) limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_coherent_state#Applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_coherent_state#Applic... I had the choice of starting with Geroch or Bamberg+Sternberg and I went with the cleaner notation and crappier words, might not have been prudent. Okay maybe you weren't as familiar with french academic activism as fencing (although maybe you might still ask your local experts about recent rule changes with respect to say Korean dominance in sabre -- curious about what is it that the Koreans know that is so unteachable, plus, people getting upset might be a good sign) Point was, if Murderous Saint Ted was raised a physicist, he might have found socially acceptable ways to get his messaging out ( I don't know, preaching to pliant students?) buuuuut I would think that's still suboptimal.
        082349872349872 2y ago
        Botai culture was before, but whether it was close enough to be in the area and whether they rode as well as ate their equines are both open q's. Interesting, I had been talking about chipping not in the quantum regime, but in the classical[0] and metaphorical[1] regimes. Sorry, I had thought I had the referent to be J-Y G, as I'm currently in the middle of The Blind Spot[2] and enjoying how he'll discuss something foundational in mathematical logic one moment and the next he'll make a social or political observation. (as does Körner, but Girard is more gallic and more so) 泰德干公 (am I doing this right?) might've done better as a physicist, but (unlike, say, Pol Pot) thankfully he combined revolutionary[3] fervour with a human-organisational capability unlikely to have been up to running a church bake sale[4]. Finally, I really enjoyed 187: > in making such appeal care should be taken to avoid misrepresenting the truth or doing anything else that would destroy the intellectual respectability of the ideology. I mean, nothing says intellectual respectability like claiming "I needed to do a few small bad things (like killing people) in order to publish my manifesto in which I worry about big good things (like upholding copyright)"[5] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum#:~:text=Moreover%2C%20for%20a,exists%20at%20all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum#:~:text=Moreov.... [1] in which Algolia, rather than high dot products, allow us to reconstitute a more-or-less linear convo [2] I'm not very convinced by the circularity argument, because if I wish to ground out boolean logic, I'm happy to either present either a truth table, or if I must, just define `∧` to be the symmetric, idempotent binary operator that tends to falsity, and so on... However, I am intrigued by his program to escape to the geometric (or at least topologic) from the algebraic, in an attempt to make the equivalent classes of proofs more explicitly syntactic and less implicitly semantic. [3] TIL that "revisionist" may not (etymologically) have meant that someone had gone off-commie-message, but that they had gone off-revolutionary-message, in that they believed it might be possible, by making a series of incremental revisions, to accomplish the stated goals of The Revolution without bothering with all the unpleasantness that tends to accompany actual revolutions. In this sense I suppose I am both an earnest Bumble-Puppy[6] advocate and a card-carrying capital-R Revisionist. [4] even on personal, not organisational, axes there are lacunae in dealing with volunteers; eg (exactly like certain segments of HN) Ted/"FC" advocates large family sizes for others, despite failing to adequately demonstrate any personal reproductive success. [5] see his note to note 16. [6] He was at least consistent in choosing to emulate "When Adam delved, and Eve(cf [4]) span" (although aren't postal services post-technological?), but I know quite a few people who have both pre-technological and "surrogate" interests, and while all of us enjoy visiting the pre-technological, we've all opted for living in the "surrogate" world.

vinnyvichy 2y ago

Fratricidal hardware

082349872349872 2y ago
for those with I M P E / R I A L finger tats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk