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What is Real? was Re: Review Finds No Answers to Mystery of Havana Syndrome
by Karl 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

On 12/5/21, Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Not sure what you mean. I always supported decentralization >> in the global and centralized Internet (a mesh that spans >> around the globe as a single closed item, compared to decentralized >> post offices where users can send an encrypted letter from >> country a to b while the rest can't intercept.) >> >> BTW. Not sure if you have access to a good library in >> your local area. If so, check out the book "The Matrix" >> from 1990, from John S. Quaterman, which shows you >> what decentralization is when it comes to global computer >> networks, compared to Democrat Al Gore's commercial >> Internet. ;-) > > P.S. Karl do you know why people cannot get a free of charge > additional IPv6 for running services at home to promote decentralization > ....??? Do you have any thoughts on this? It would be due to the lack of community internet service provision, possibly? Of course, anybody can configure an interface with as many ipv6 addresses as they want on a decentralised routing infrastructure ...

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[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Build Something Out of a Neutron Star
by Karl 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

>> Is there a limit to the pressure a fluid can hold? > > > neutron stars are pretty high pressure :) > > but using neutron star juice in any practical sense is fraught with extreme > difficulty! :P It is very hard to use neutron star juice. The biggest issue I imagine is how very far away they are. The next issues I imagine you run into might be the extreme forces present inside and near them. I'm not actually sure what a neutron star is. I kind of imagine matter breaking down into neutrons, protons, and electrons from being squished so hard. If a neutron is made of a proton and an electron, then I guess it might kind of be like a big neutron mass, maybe, with a sea of excess protons or electrons as a shell on the surface, sloshing around outside it like a fluid made of raw electric energy. Is a neutron star what makes a pulsar? Is the pulsing from an ion shell sea sloshing around? I don't know. Let's look up "neutron star". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star - neutron stars have a 1.4 solar mass and a radius of about 10 km. they're like a small dense sun-corpse that you could stuff into a suitcase to bring to their collapsing-ritual. - neutron stars hold their shape from a combination of nuclear forces specific to being a highly-compressed mass of neutrons. when these fail it becomes a black hole. do not compress neutron stars into black holes. i imagine this could be done by e.g. directing them to collide. people might be sad if this were done. - neutron stars are about 600k deg hot on the surface - a matchbox sized amount of neutron star juice weighs about 3 billion tons - the magnetic field is 10^8 - 10^15 times stronger than earth's - surface gravity is 200 billion times earth's - neutron stars rotate rapidly due to conservation of momentum during collapse, like a figure skater pulling her arms in - neutron stars are a superset of pulsars, which are the ones which emit beams of radiation - the mass rotation axis can differ from the electrical rotation axis. this produces the sweeping effect of the beam making the traditional pulsar. Hmm. Neutron stars sound like a powerful source of energy, and attempting to consider their incredibly-massive innards "juice" in the "extractable fluid" sense sounds like a very difficult challenge. However, this is our last chance to rescue this matter and energy before somebody collapses it into a black hole!

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Army or Navy
by Gunnar Larson 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

A *false flag operation* is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term "false flag" originated in the 16th century as a purely figurative expression to mean "a deliberate misrepresentation of someone's affiliation or motives".[1] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#cite_note-1> It was later used to describe a ruse in naval warfare <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_warfare> whereby a vessel flew the flag of a neutral or enemy country in order to hide its true identity.

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Facial recognition patent
by jim bell 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/04/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-52…

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[personal] dbfbbb89a1b236179c625e8d960ce81867c68169e2a93c5761eb842ffe2ffec9
by Karl 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

i've of course been posting about this a lot. saving is more important than reading, i'm afraid. each line is a different transaction, so the stream is timestamped as blocks are mined. https://github.com/xloem/libexcessiveattemptstostorethings present HEAD is 1f454a986359ef98104eee48b8d2ace2a4db268d below was made by running test_flush_stream.py with no arguments. it might be much harder to work on this after posting this email. https://bico.media/dbfbbb89a1b236179c625e8d960ce81867c68169e2a93c5761eb842f… this is posted with a library i have given many names to, always changing as i made it i posted it online, including the private key, so it's possible others have used it, although not many look i've called the library things like 'libdisgustingwaste' 'libdestroyedlives' 'libincineratesitself' i called it these things because it makes it easier for me to make. it appeases parts of me that have been through something horrible, somehow. i desperately yearn to have information that is important to me not be lost. i don't know how to reach this goal, yet. the code here works by reading from stdin, right now, and sending a transaction whenever data is available. so, it's doing it when i press enter, because my terminal is line-buffered, i suppose. there is always more to do. i hope you are well.

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[ot][spam][crazy][wrong] Reading a Book from Library Genesis
by Karl 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Library genesis can be found at https://libgen.is/ right now, it can move. It has books for download, for example that textbook you paid $300 for, there is a very good chance some revision of it, or a book with the same content, is on library genesis. I've downloaded this book, "Deep Learning on Graphs", by Yao Ma and Jiliang Tang, from library genesis. You could download it for example from http://library.lol/main/1BEBBF5A91CE94A5F2D5C50935BBAC9E . Let's read it! Even better, let's skim through it. I'll start with section 2.4: Spectral Graph Theory ---- Spectral graph theory studies the properties of a graph through analyzing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of its Laplacian matrix. In this section, we first introduce the Laplacian matrix of a graph and then discuss the key properties of the Laplacian matrix and its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. 2.4.1 Laplacian Matrix In this subsection, we introduce the Laplacian matrix of a graph, which is another matrix representation for graphs in addition to the adjacency matrix. Defintion 2.28 (Laplacian Matrix) For a given graph G = {V,E} with A as its adjacency matrix, its Laplacian matrix is defined as L = D - A, (2.18) where D is a diagonal degree matrix D = diag(d(v_1),...,d(v_|V|)) Another definition of the Laplacian matrix is a normalized version of Eq. (2.18). Definition 2.29 (Normalized Laplacian Matrix) For a given graph G= {V,E} with A as its adjacency matrix, its normalized Laplacian matrix is defined as L = D^(-1/2)(D - A)D^(-1/2) = I - D^(-1/2)AD^(-1/2). (2.19) Next, we focus on the discussion of the (unnormalized) Laplacian matrix as defined in Definition 2.28. However, in some later chapters of this book, the normalized Laplacian matrix will also be utilized. Unless specifically mentioned, we refer to the Laplacian matrix as the unnormalized one defined in Definition 2.28. ---- That was the top of doc page 27, pdf page 46. The Laplacian matrix is defined in terms of the adjacency matrix, so let's search the document for the first occurences of the phrase "adjacency matrix", to see what that is. Now I'm in section 2.2 Graph Representations, document page 18, pdf page 37. ---- 2.2 Graph Representations In this section, we introduce the definition of graphs. We focus on simple unweighted graphs and will discuss more complex graphs in the following sections. Definition 2.1 (Graph) A graph can be denoted as G = {V,E}, where V= {v_1,...,v_N} is a set of N = |V| nodes and E = {e_1,...,e_M} is a set of M edges. Nodes are essential entities in a graph. In social graphs, users are viewed as nodes, whereas in chemical compound graphs, chemical atoms are treated as nodes. The size of a given graph G is defined by its number of nodes; i.e., N = |V|. The set of edges E describes the connections between nodes. An edge e_i connects two nodes v^1_ei and v^2_ei; thus, the edge e_i can be also represented as (v^1_ei, v^2_ei). In directed graphs, the edge is directed from node v^1_ei to node v^2_ei. In undirected graphs, the order of the two nodes does not make a difference; i.e., e_i = (v^1_ei, v^2_ei) = (v^2_ei, v^1_ei). Note that without specific mention, we limit our discussion to undirected graphs in this chapter. The nodes v^1_ei and v^2_ei are incident to the edge e_i. A node v_i is said to be adjacent to another node v_j if and only i there exists and edge between them. In social graphs, different relations such as friendship can be viewed as edges between nodes, whereas chemical bonds are considered as edges in chemical compound graphs (we simply regard all chemical bonds as edges while ignoring their different types). A graph G = {V, E} can be equivalently represented as an adjacency matrix, which describes the connectivity between the nodes. Definition 2.2 (Adjacency Matrix) For a given graph G = {V, E}, the corresponding adjacency matrix is denoted as A of {0, 1}^NxN. The i, jth entry of the adjacency matrix A, indicated as A_i,j, represents the connectivity between two nodes v_i and v_j. More specifically, A_i,j = 1 if v_i is adjacent to v_j; otherwise, A_i,j = 0. In an undirected graph, a node v_i is adjacent to v_j if and only if v_j is adjacent to v_i; thus, A_i,j = A_j,i holds for all v_i and v_j in the graph. Hence, for an undirected graph, its corresponding adjacency matrix is symmetric. ---- Okay! An adjacency matrix is a 2-dimensional boolean array, with dimension length equal to the number of nodes (vertices) in the graph. Each cell in the array is 1 or True if the coordinates of the cell represent a connection from one node to another, and 0 or False if there is no such connection. This could be expanded to represent 3- or n- -ended edged graphs with arbitrary directionality, by adding further dimensions. Cool! If this state of mind continues I might type more in.

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House expects to hear from Gramps, Batshit and Karl
by professor rat 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Sorry - House expects to hear from Roger Stone, Alex Jones and Michael Flynn. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/05/1061600362/house-expects-to-hear-from-roger-…

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BGR: FBI document shows how easy it is to access your encrypted chat data
by jim bell 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

BGR: FBI document shows how easy it is to access your encrypted chat data. https://bgr.com/tech/an-fbi-document-shows-how-easy-it-can-access-your-encr…

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Do Sonic Weapons Affect St. Bernards?
by Gunnar Larson 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Cognitive liberty is not currently recognized as a human right by any international human rights treaty.[11] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-Bublitz_and_Mer…> While freedom of thought <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_thought> is recognized by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights> (UDHR), freedom of thought can be distinguished from cognitive liberty in that the former is concerned with protecting an individual's freedom to think *whatever* they want, whereas cognitive liberty is concerned with protecting an individual's freedom to think *however* they want.[29] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-29> Cognitive liberty seeks to protect an individual's right to determine their own state of mind and be free from external control over their state of mind, rather than just protecting the content of an individuals’ thoughts.[30] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-Boire,_Part_II-…> It has been suggested that the lack of protection of cognitive liberty in previous human rights instruments was due to the relative lack of technology capable of directly interfering with mental autonomy at the time the core human rights treaties were created.[21] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-Boire,_Part_I-21>

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Re: Fuck Square / Block and fuck Bitcoin
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

You keep telling us you're a pathetic eunuch, Steve. But we already knew that.

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