Please post humanitites related interesting articles, things you are learning at school, or other humanities discussion here!

Cracking a math problem? Practicing Latin? Splitting an atom? This room is a side spot you can pop into to go back and forth on your homework problems.

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I know there's a lot of smart people here so I'm sure we can help each other out!

In a past life I was a college math instructor and I still love the stuff so if there's anything in that area I can help with send me a ping!

Thanks!

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Heh, /sci/ memes welcome

The other day, on The Daily Shoah, Mike Enoch was talking about "Schelling Points" which he said are really relevant for dissident political movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)

Basically a Schelling point is how people with similar goals meet when communication between them is blocked.

Mike was using this idea to talk about how people in the AltRight meet each other, say at local GOP meetings or what have you.

@Rick That's tough, it may not take it. Have you tried Wolfram Alpha? https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Great! Yeah it's a nifty tool, my first go to for almost any equation. Sometimes it gives you cool extra info too like graphs

Anyone here ever use Prolog? I got really into it a while ago

One thing I've wondered is that if the AltRight ever needed to avoid using English or other language with a lot of POZzed speakers to avoid interruption, what language would we write things in? I was thinking maybe Latin 😁

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@Deleted User also I forgot to mention: the best thing you can do to help the academic channels is to post things you're interested in!

Relevant the_Donald post I made is gaining traction https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7hirbg/woman_sacrifices_security_of_entire_country_to

@Deleted User It's from "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Timothy Bishop. I was just glancing through it while waiting through the train. For my job (datascientist) I like to have at least a high level acquaintance with these things in case they come up.

@this_that5553 I do some basic sys admin as part of my job.

@celticflame A popular way to make websites is WordPress, which gives a control panel for non techies to build the site. Once you have a wordpress site set up, then you add many ecommerce plugins that are there so you can have a little shop on your site. There are definitely guys here with WordPress skills (it's one of the most commonly requested skills on the job market). I don't know everyone who does in particular, but for example I know @Procella Eques has WordPress experience

@Zyzz I use `youtube-dl` to download videos and music from youtube

@celticflame you're welcome!

@this_that5553 Looks interesting!

@this_that5553 I don't think the voting is a great way to control content, though I get why they set it up that way

I'm sure Israeli hackers would just botnet downvote our videos and report them as nsfw

@Zyzz nope but here are some easy-to-follow instructions to install and use youtube-dl:
1. open Terminal
2. copy-paste this and hit enter:
`/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"`
3. When that finishes run `brew install youtube-dl`

That's all you need to install `youtube-dl`.

Then to download a video at a url <http://www.youtube.com/whatever> just open terminal and run `youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/whatever`

@greg_p - TX yep, it's afaik the most popular program for this type of thing. as @nils said

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@greg_p - TX what plug-in do you reccomend?

@Zyzz ^^

I'm thinking of suing ABC for damages

Yeah dude it has a lot of options, like `youtube-dl -x url` will just extract the audio

@John O - yeah me too I like it a lot

@this_that5553 I like to use Bitcoin to buy stuff because a lot of merchants give discounts for using it

From what I understand though it is used a lot more in third world countries that don't really have a credit card infrastructure

Third world countries also don't have much of a landline phone infrastructure, so those places were very quick to adopt cell phone towers and basically "skipped" ever setting up landlines

@Deleted User I think that would be great. I remember someone here was asking about that the other day though I can't find the convo now.

5 is the new 14

There's a gym I go to an IE guy with sometimes

yeah it's a special lifting gym

all barbells etc

what, like dumbells?

they are there but I stick with barbell

basically doing a starting strength thing

@Deleted User I think what you call free weights I call barbells

ah ok cool, yeah that's what I'm talking about

yeah it's great I'm like the only novice there. everyone else is either a competitive weight lifter or pro trainer

haha

@Fox I happened to be learning squat that day, that was a few months ago

that's so nice

god I love squats

I wish I was at the gym right now

yeah actually this gym is 24 hours

@Fox yeah a lot newer than anyone else at that gym and probably a lot of the guys in IE

actually I got into lifting because I was reading through the (old) IE fitness server

saw a lot of people recommend Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

bought it, read through it, then went to this gym

yeah I am very fortunate that I am a novice, I love being able to linearly progress

adding 5kg to my squat each time

5lbs to my bench press

Yeah I'm not actually doing the true starting strength. The guy who runs the gym has his own variation of it

so I'm alternating 3x8 and 4x6

it's just a six week program for beginners

almost at the end of it

Yeah it's a great place

@Fox Thanks! If you're ever in NY and want to go send me a DM. Open invite for all IE guys 🙂

Thanks man

What bizarre criticism. It's like those 4chan memes where supermodels have "pointy elbows 2/10"

Yeah as Patrick mentioned their biggest worry was something falling into the highway

"Backlash" it's just bizarre having an opinion unleashes "backlash"

Same

@Zyzz Thanks, yes this is stuff that has been in the back of my mind. I'm just slowly selling my btc piece by piece

I was in around june july time, so my selling off 33% of my btc I've gotten my money back

@Deleted User I used lending tree as a borrower, it was fine on my end.

@Zyzz Thanks I think there's definitely a lot to that Greater Fool Theory. I've thought for a long time about how one might price bitcoin, and here is my swing at it: Bitcoin's main use is as a transaction network. If you want to transfer money to someone you could use one of several networks, like bank networks etc, or you can use Bitcoin. If you want to transfer money and decide to use the Bitcoin network, you first buy bitcoin and then send it to someone who sells the bitcoin. Now on your end you are trying to pay the amount owed plus a transaction fee, on the other end someone wants to get the amount owed. To simplify let's say the transaction is instantaneous (otherwise let's add a bitcoin volatility premium to the amount of bitcoin you want to send). So as someone looking to use the Bitcoin network as a service, you don't really care what the price of bitcoin is, you are trying to settle something in dollars and you are merely using bitcoin as a medium. I made the simplifying assumptions the transaction is instantaneous and let's say both buyer of bitcoin and seller of bitcoin can and do immediately exchange the dollar for bitcoin and then bitcoin for dollars.

So then to the people using bitcoin as a transaction network it doesn't really matter to them what the price of bitcoin is under these conditions, since it's only a medium for them to get dollars from one place to another.

But there are other people on the sides of that bitcoin for cash exchange, the guy selling the transferer the bitcoin, and the guy buying back the bitcoin from the transferee. Let's simplify the assumption that it is some how the same person.

So this guy holds bitcoin until people want to use his bitcoin for their transaction

You have to pay him to not hold cash

and he makes his money on the difference between what you pay for X bitcoin and what he pays out for X bitcoin to the other person

So the guy who holds bitcoin makes money by selling bitcoin high to the transferer and buying it low to the transferee. And the thing that stops him from just screwing over the transferee by not buying back the bitcoin is that there are other people who want to get in and provide this same transfering money service using bitcoin

So in the end owning bitcoin winds up sounding like owning a substrait of the infrastructure of a payment network.

So even though it's not perfect I think of bitcoins as like shares of american express or something

@Zyzz I totally agree with you that it is mostly buying and selling, I've just been trying to create a "fundamental analysis" of bitcoin to see how to think of it having an intrinsic value.

Bitcoin is created as a reward for "miners" who provide all the computing power to keep the Bitcoin network going.

That reward is also decreasing until it will eventually taper off to nothing

@Zyzz So every node in the bitcoin network (including your own computer if you want) there is a record of ever bitcoin transaction, this is used to build a ledger that shows how much bitcoin each person holds. Persons on the ledger are represented by your wallet, which is a long code that people use to send you money.
Given this, if I want to send money from my wallet to your wallet, the network needs to do a lot of computational work to check the ledger to confirm that I have enough bitcoin on my row of the ledger such that I am allowed to take some of that and put it on your part of the ledger. The computational work of verifying that on this giant decentralized ledger is the computational work needed to run bitcoin

@Logan That was such awesome news and showed a great face for the movement, thanks to you guys for doing that

@whiskeytangofoxtrot how is it now?

@whiskeytangofoxtrot nope you weren't kicked I just deleted the channel (it had just been for testing purposes)

haha I remember buying like a bazillion doge coin when it was first popular

I think it was 20 bucks

@this_that5553 is FileCoin going to be an ICO?

By the way reminds me of Storaj

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