00:04:26 If a program does nothing but output a single character many times, running it is probably a bad way of determining how many times it outputs that character. 00:04:46 * warrie_ takes a look at BF busy beaver 00:26:19 warrie_, hrrm? 00:26:45 well bf is deterministic depending on input 00:26:51 there is no random operator 00:27:01 so the same program should give the same count 00:27:08 when given the same input 00:27:19 Hmm... found an interesting blog when I tried to find the BFBB... http://eigenratios.blogspot.com/ 00:27:41 MizardX, seen it before once 00:27:47 but what is eigenratio? 00:28:08 old :P 00:28:17 -!- ab5tract has joined. 00:28:31 Eigen values is some special constants that comes from matrices, and a few other systems. 00:28:35 How would you determine the amount of output given by a program like +[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[->++<]>[-..]? 00:28:41 MizardX, hm ok 00:28:59 warrie_, run it with a given input? 00:29:06 wait till it finishes 00:29:27 doing it otherwise sounds like it would solve the halting problem 00:29:38 you may be able to solve that specific case however 00:29:47 AnMaster: suppose there are 1,000,000 [->++<]>s. 00:29:57 2^15 00:30:09 characters will be printed 00:30:11 warrie_, hm I think that may be well defined 00:30:21 Would you run it, or perform some simple calculation and end up at 2^1000001? 00:30:21 that one is easy in fact 00:30:35 yes since you can see much much every [->++<]> adds 00:30:56 then figure out the rate for decrementing 00:31:35 warrie_, but the general case of bf programs.. wouldn't that solve the halting program? 00:31:55 Yes. 00:32:15 Well, maybe not. 00:32:33 really? 00:32:56 * AnMaster waits for warrie_ to explain himself 00:34:46 I find it likely at the moment that it's possible to take any program that outputs n (possibly infinitely many) characters and produce one that runs faster and outputs a number of characters of which n is a function. 00:34:55 Modulo formality and all. 00:35:59 Obviously, it's possible to run the [->++<]> program, note the number of characters it outputs, and produce the null program, with the function being a constant function. 00:38:48 -!- Sgeo has joined. 00:38:49 http://www.getacoder.com/projects/bug_finder_92913.html 00:41:57 That there is a computable function F whose input is a program that outputs n characters and whose output is n if n is finite, where F runs faster than the trivial function satisfying this criterion. 00:42:01 That being the "run it" function. 00:42:49 Hmm, that won't do. 00:43:15 Or maybe it will. 00:44:29 -!- Corun has quit ("Leaving"). 01:17:52 Okay, my ORK interpreter now runs *all* demo programs correctly, including the Kipple interpreter. 01:18:21 I've also added implementation notes and bugs. 01:18:31 http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/temp/esoteric/orkdemo.php 01:22:48 -!- Corun has joined. 01:29:14 -!- Corun has quit ("This computer has gone to sleep"). 01:50:13 Eigenratio for the Conway's Life self-interpreter: 5760. ("That's the number of generations that need to be run in Dean Bell's unit cell at level N in order to emulate a single generation in level N+1.") 01:51:15 -!- olsner has quit ("Leaving"). 01:54:13 -!- ab5tract has quit. 01:58:51 I prefer the eigenratio 5760*500*500, since each big generation-cell is that many little generation-cells. 02:14:12 -!- ab5tract has joined. 03:08:57 -!- ab5tract has quit. 03:47:03 -!- Organ_used_homos has joined. 03:49:56 Better description of eigenratio: http://eigenratios.blogspot.com/2006_08_18_archive.html (He was the one who named it) 03:52:11 Yay :D 03:52:45 Organ_used_homos: Please describe the reason for your nickname with NO DETAILS AT ALL 04:00:31 Here's an explanation with no detail : It was on another server. 04:00:37 -!- Organ_used_homos has changed nick to Slereah_. 04:00:59 Please include precisely one more level of detail. 04:01:43 It was a joke. 04:03:57 -!- Slereah has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 04:07:20 -!- psygnisfive has joined. 04:47:38 -!- ab5tract has joined. 04:47:45 'sup dude 04:48:32 -!- ab5tract has quit (Client Quit). 05:22:26 Mmm, supper. 05:22:32 * GregorR is a sup dude. 05:22:47 GET IT? 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IT'S A PUN. 05:24:33 DO YOU WANT MORE DETAILS NOW 05:45:51 * GregorR randomly decided to look at JSMIPS again. 05:46:49 + "today" 05:47:44 JSMIPS? 05:48:17 -!- warrie_ has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 05:49:01 Slereah_: http://codu.org/jsmips/ 05:53:16 oklopol! 06:11:51 -!- Sgeo has quit (Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer)). 06:51:55 -!- GreaseMonkey has joined. 07:38:51 -!- sebbu2 has joined. 07:39:59 -!- olsner has joined. 07:58:08 -!- sebbu has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 07:58:09 -!- sebbu2 has changed nick to sebbu. 07:59:59 -!- clog has quit (ended). 08:00:00 -!- clog has joined. 08:51:02 -!- GreaseMonkey has quit ("I'm a thaasophobic."). 08:56:08 -!- nooga_ has quit ("Lost terminal"). 09:07:35 -!- oerjan has joined. 09:14:29 -!- olsner has quit ("Leaving"). 09:36:07 -!- trave has joined. 09:55:07 -!- trave_ has joined. 09:56:11 -!- trave has quit (Nick collision from services.). 09:56:13 -!- trave_ has changed nick to trave. 10:09:30 -!- trave has quit (Read error: 145 (Connection timed out)). 10:23:56 -!- trave has joined. 10:50:10 -!- oerjan has quit ("leaving"). 11:05:21 -!- SimonRC has quit (Read error: 113 (No route to host)). 11:10:30 -!- Corun has joined. 11:23:45 -!- Corun has quit ("This computer has gone to sleep"). 11:46:08 -!- Corun has joined. 11:53:05 -!- Corun has quit ("This computer has gone to sleep"). 12:01:18 -!- nooga has joined. 12:01:23 shiiit 12:01:27 i forgot C 12:03:26 -!- trave_ has joined. 12:04:10 -!- trave has quit (Nick collision from services.). 12:04:36 -!- trave_ has changed nick to trave. 12:07:25 -!- trave has quit (Client Quit). 12:12:22 GregorR: impressive! (jsmips) 12:14:30 Orc looks cool. 12:14:41 Maybe I can do sum pi-calc with it :o 12:16:15 -!- nooga has quit (Remote closed the connection). 12:37:18 -!- nooga has joined. 12:37:27 clock() does not work :C 12:38:32 What about cock() 12:38:38 How does it not work? 12:40:52 http://www.ladyada.net/make/fuzebox/ 12:40:54 fucking WANT 12:51:31 4K ram? good for 99bob and stuff but quite limited otherwise 12:53:35 "NTSC RCA composite and S-video out (PAL not supported at this time)" 12:53:36 well 12:53:54 that limits it's usefulness here in Europe 13:00:41 pgimeno: it's for 8-bit games 13:00:43 see the video 13:14:27 it seems that a fully functional VM is pretty hard... 13:14:33 you need to pass everything to functions to get it working 13:14:38 but you have to put the functions SOMEWHERE 13:14:48 but that's mutation of the machine state 13:17:35 Hm. 13:17:38 Machine state. 13:17:46 I for one welcome our new robot overlord. 13:19:29 heh 13:29:56 ais523: appealing a cfj because of schildt 13:29:58 THAT i can support 13:30:09 ehird: wrong channel, but yes 13:30:23 no, schildt's programming is esoteric 13:30:24 :P 13:36:51 -!- oklokok has joined. 13:39:34 o 13:41:38 btw, http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kaminsky?currentPage=all 13:41:41 ^ interesting. 13:44:50 cheap sensation 13:45:09 the attack is absolutely not cheap 13:50:17 The article, on the other hand... 13:50:20 "The vulnerability gave him the power to transfer millions out of bank accounts worldwide." 13:50:52 Well, yes. 13:50:56 But it's entertaining. 13:51:12 Who reads wired for serious, somber articles? 13:52:01 -!- oklopol has quit (Connection timed out). 14:03:22 -!- Mony has joined. 14:04:12 plop 14:05:18 Yo 14:05:37 salut Slereah_ ^^ 14:05:59 Comment vas-tu, Mona. 14:06:07 Mona :O 14:06:16 ça va 14:06:17 et toi ? 14:06:50 De même. 14:07:00 Je dis Mona car c'est le nom des chats de 2chan. 14:07:27 c'est aussi le nom d'une femme 14:07:32 or, je ne suis pas une femme :D 14:09:19 http://membres.lycos.fr/bewulf/Divers6/Shii2.jpg 14:09:31 (Mona vient de la police utilisé pour les faire) 14:10:24 \o/ 14:12:05 The scary part is that I understood half of that conversation/ 14:13:14 Well, it did involve kittuns 14:39:41 who wants to think about a purely functional vm and how it's impossible 14:50:18 Virtual machine? 14:50:31 Also why would it be impossible? :o 14:57:24 Slereah_: yes, and because to do anything you have to modify e.g. the call stack or similar 14:57:26 le francophonic invasion 14:57:29 it's impossible to have a VM that only appends 14:57:30 aaaa 14:57:30 without mutating 14:57:39 because at the heart, its based on memory which mutates 14:58:46 ehird : Only if you consider every memory-part of the machine as the memory. 14:59:02 Plus, imagine if your machine just rearranged its connections! 14:59:14 Slereah_: well, show me a spec for a purely-functional (no mutation whatsoever) vm that lets you add two numbers 14:59:18 what connections do you mean? 14:59:18 i'll show the mutation. 14:59:32 BETWEEN THE COMPONENTS 14:59:39 Wires and such. 14:59:43 a 14:59:49 Virtual ones. 15:00:09 Also 15:00:16 I am a functional machine D: 15:00:24 Slereah_: Show the specccccc :P 15:00:27 Give me a program, I'll interpret it for you 15:00:58 filthy ocaml junkie you are 15:01:08 Slereah_ doesn't know ocaml 15:01:10 as far as I know 15:01:11 so shush 15:01:21 he 15:01:22 's a scheme lad. 15:01:26 I know Ocaml 15:01:30 aha! 15:01:30 I just don't use it 15:01:45 Although I'm curious about picaml 15:01:52 Also orc on the esowiki 15:01:55 I am intrigued. 15:02:07 To pick a single point out there, I'm not seeing why you couldn't have an immutable call stack. 15:02:42 fizzie: how would you call a function? 15:02:50 it's immutable. you can't change the call stack. 15:02:54 it must not change. 15:03:19 You can construct a new call stack, though. 15:03:30 Yes indeed. Whatever that means. 15:03:30 fizzie: Where do you put it? 15:03:32 You can't replace it. 15:03:35 With the new one. 15:03:52 I just assume it means something along "Using memory-part as not the memory itself" 15:04:24 fizzie: You can all very well construct a new call stack, but it just sits there doing nothing. 15:04:31 You can't put it into VM memory; it's immutable. 15:05:50 You can pass it to the function. 15:06:05 It's more of a continuation than a call stack in that case, though. 15:06:13 fizzie: Pass it to what function? 15:06:19 You can't construct a function, it has nowhere to go in memory. 15:06:49 You need to make a function then pass a reference to the vm so that it calls it. 15:07:00 But making a function and getting a reference requires putting a function in memory, thus mutating memory. 15:07:09 vm-memory that is 15:07:25 Huh? I assume you have something that can allocate new memory, yes. 15:07:40 fizzie: Yes, but the _in-vm memory cannot change_. 15:07:45 that is the whole point: it's purely functional 15:07:56 you cannot _mutate anything existing_ that exists inside the VM 15:08:20 it's not about implementation 15:08:23 it's about the deisgn of the vm itself 15:08:27 Uh... cons'ing new storage does not sound like mutation to me. 15:08:28 all code in the vm is purely functional, that is 15:08:43 fizzie: that requires changing the VM's memory. 15:08:47 changing anything within the VM is not allowed. 15:09:18 It just means giving it new storage. I'm not sure why your completely functional VM would have mutable memory anyway. 15:09:29 ... when did I say it would? 15:09:52 fizzie: Since I absolutely cannot see how it is possible: how would you spec a VM that mutates nothing within the VM, that lets you add two integers together? 15:10:24 I think there must be some issue of definition mismatch somewhere. 15:10:38 most likely. 15:10:43 But how would you spec such a trivial thing? 15:11:42 I assume a purely functional VM would have (wrt. memory) a single primitive like (cons), which would not be considered mutation. 15:12:04 fizzie: Example? 15:12:15 Plus, why are you always thinking of Lisp? 15:12:25 It's not like it's the only functional thingamagig. 15:12:32 Umm. 15:12:35 Since when am I? 15:12:37 Okay, a single primitive like malloc, then, if you want it to sound low-levelish. 15:12:38 Also. 15:12:41 Lisp is not purely functional. 15:12:50 Not the language, ehird 15:12:53 The original lisp! 15:12:53 I think that was directed to me. I know it most, that's why. 15:13:01 The lisp that is purely functional 15:13:05 fizzie: I'm just asking how you can have a functional VM that lets you add two integers together. I'm not sure you can. 15:13:57 I'm not going to start speccing things. But it's a *virtual machine*, you can freely select what sort of primitives you provide. 15:14:16 I do not think you can create a virtual machine that is able to operate without any mutation whatsoever. 15:14:30 You've basically just said "you're wrong", soooooo... 15:18:21 Your VM can have "call this object as a function" as a primitive, for one thing. You don't need to construct any call stacks or do any mutation "inside the VM" to call a function, then. 15:18:30 fizzie: how do you make an object 15:18:40 push to a stack? ding, you just mutated 15:18:45 put in a register? dinnnnnnggggggggggg 15:18:48 put in vm memory? DINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 15:19:00 With another primitive that allocates new storage. 15:19:13 Ah, and what does it return? How do you use the storage? 15:19:39 Okay, allocates and initializes to whatever you want. 15:19:46 Immutable storage, that is. 15:19:51 fizzie: Variable sized objects? 15:19:54 How do you initialize them? 15:20:20 You don't need variable-sized objects, but I don't see why that would be a problem. 15:20:32 fizzie: In the actual bytecode. 15:20:43 How do you initialize an object with a variable sized initialization? 15:21:09 The function call primitive can easily accept a variable number of parameters. 15:21:25 ok, let's look at this example: 15:21:30 Or the storage-allocation-and-initialization primitive. 15:21:32 {...} call 15:21:32 And you can build variable-sized objects out of fixed-size objects, anyway. 15:21:41 that {...} has to mutate, to put it on the stack or similar 15:22:41 Huh? If it's a parameter to call, why would you need to put it on a stack? 15:23:04 fizzie: {...} being a function 15:23:13 Sure, why not. 15:23:15 Besides, how can call take variable parameters? 15:23:27 I'm talking at bytecode-level here 15:23:36 It's a virtual machine, why couldn't your "bytecode" do whatever you want? 15:23:59 i'm lost 15:24:36 fizzie: Obviously my Lisp interpreter is a virtual machine. 15:24:39 After all, it runs programs. 15:24:42 A completely functional VM (with primitives like "apply") will probably resemble a functional-paradigm language quite a lot, since indeed you don't have registers or anything, just parameters and return values. 15:25:08 Well, yes. 15:26:23 PICKLE SURPRISE! 15:28:02 -!- oerjan has joined. 15:28:33 y 15:29:00 e 15:29:26 s 15:31:04 fizzie: I mean, a VM bytecode isn't exactly going to be efficient if it's a nested tree ala lisp. 15:31:15 Yet it's kind-of hard to make a stack based VM that doesn't mutate a stack. 15:31:32 Yes; if you base a VM on mutable concepts, it is indeed hard to make one that doesn't use mutation. 15:32:15 Well, yes, but the point is... 15:32:30 If you make your VM use arbitrary nested trees of a few primitives... you've invented Lisp 15:32:32 A functional VM like that would not probably be very "low-level", which I guess is quite understandable, given that "low-level" pretty much means "close to the underlying system", which is very mutation-rich. 15:32:36 (And yet most lisps compile down to a vm, heh.) 15:33:00 fizzie: The idea is, it's a low-level thing, except the system it's being low-level on is a mystical immutable computer. 15:33:23 I want a mystical computer 15:33:28 ehird: a VM can implement a purely functional abstraction even if it isn't purely functional at the physical level (which nothing in our universe can be, presumably) 15:33:35 well, duh, oerj 15:33:36 oerjan: 15:33:44 but...that's not the point 15:33:53 the _VM WORLD_ has to be immutable 15:34:02 i.e. everything you can access via the VM code has to be immutable in every way 15:34:06 VM code = code running on it 15:34:56 ehird: you can do something monadic, the access calculates the next world from the previous 15:35:07 yes, but that's not exactly very functional in spirit 15:35:19 i'm talking more the lambda-calculus type 15:35:49 combonotors :o 15:35:57 Well, you can probably make a purely functional abstraction that's on a "lower level"; you can easily get rid of abitrarily nested trees, at least. (As long as you allow constructing those with the cons-like operation.) 15:36:07 ehird: i am reminded slightly of reversible turing machines 15:36:36 fizzie: The problem is trees in general; it's not very efficient. 15:36:42 the connection being that it is hard to remove information from those, since you need to uncalculate it 15:36:54 cons 1 (cons 2 nil) vs nil 2 cons 1 cons 15:37:19 * oerjan should mention that he is not entirely sober, since that might explain something 15:38:04 Also: 15:38:11 THe former needs a call stack. 15:38:25 Yes, if you want something that's efficient to execute a conventional computer, you'd probably best use a VM that's close to it. 15:38:28 So now you've got something even less like a VM; CPS-transformed lisp. 15:38:36 I'm not really interested in efficiency. 15:38:38 Just low-levelity. 15:39:28 ehird: a kind of graph machine, where graphs grow like crystals, but generated parts of crystals cannot be changed 15:39:38 oerjan: that, except lower-level :-P 15:39:46 crystals are low-level 15:41:09 isn't it muriel or something that only allows you to copy information forward? that's almost immutable 15:41:27 I think so 15:41:32 Hm. 15:41:33 No. 15:41:37 Like SMITH, Muriel has no traditional control structures. Instead, Muriel has a command to replace the currently running Muriel program with a given string, and run that instead. This leads to a programming method where a program must quine itself in order to perform any sort of loop. 15:41:50 maybe it was SMITH 15:43:01 hm seems so 15:44:22 [[. It has no jumps whatsoever; the instruction pointer can only be incremented, and only by one instruction at a time. As a substitute for loops, the language allows code to be copied forward where it will be executed in the future.]] 15:44:23 Kind of. 15:46:00 also there's Elephant (barely non-esoteric) 15:47:29 where everything about the past can be referenced 15:47:49 ah, that's mccarthy's isn't it? 15:47:51 not low-level, of course 15:48:06 yeah 15:48:30 Slereah_ doesn't know ocaml 15:48:38 impossible! he's french after all 15:49:50 see, what i'm planning on implementing is a high-level smalltalk-alike, except it's purely functional, and prototype-based 15:50:36 Is ocaml Frenh? :o 15:52:00 it's developed by INRIA and Xavier Leroy iirc 15:52:06 Normal people would just do a "traditional" VM that's just a bit more functionally-oriented than the rest. 15:52:09 Like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECD_machine was 15:52:47 fizzie: well this is ehird we are talking about 15:53:05 Yes, and this is #esoteric. 15:53:09 To hell with traditional things, I want purely functional! :-P 15:53:25 I don't actually care if it's slow, Squeak is a dog anyway - besides, I'm planning on writing the VM in the language itself 15:53:27 the compiler too. 15:53:35 #esoteric can only do purely dysfunctional 15:53:36 (As well as a bootstrap in-C vm&compiler.) 15:53:48 (But beyond that...) 15:55:29 Isn't dysfunctional the unlambda/BF mix? 15:58:49 0x29A 15:59:03 but there is no reason we couldn't have more 15:59:12 Why that name by the way? 15:59:21 hint: it's hex 15:59:21 It doesn't roll well on your toungue. 15:59:29 Hex for what? 15:59:44 sheesh 15:59:46 666 15:59:52 Oh. 16:00:02 ... 16:00:03 Wait 16:00:08 What about the other one. 16:00:20 huh? 16:00:38 wait 16:01:11 THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE ... oh wait i just claimed the opposite didn't i 16:01:41 I recall some language called 0x29C or something 16:01:46 Related to the first 16:02:29 http://esolangs.org/wiki/0x29C 16:02:33 Yah 16:02:36 how observant 16:02:41 668? 16:02:46 anyway, current thinking: I need to figure out how to do a purely-functional, applicationy-language without having a lisp-like (nested (tree)) 16:03:01 Why 668 :o 16:03:10 Slereah_, you said 0x29C 16:03:43 thus you said 668 16:03:47 Yes. 16:03:48 I know. 16:03:53 But why is it called 668. 16:04:18 i say potayto, you say 0xP0TAHT0 16:04:28 oerjan, what base is that 16:04:47 it isn't valid hex expressed in the common 0x way 16:04:49 at leas 16:04:51 least* 16:05:05 AnMaster: it's base humor 16:05:21 wait doesn't "base humor" mean something else? 16:05:33 the phrase sounds familiar 16:05:52 and AnMaster wins! 16:05:52 s/wait /wait, / 16:05:59 oerjan, eh? 16:06:17 you detected a pun. that still keeps surprising me. 16:06:25 especially when not sober 16:06:34 I'm always sober 16:06:41 oerjan, and, what is "base humor"? 16:06:43 but i'm not 16:06:43 I can't remember 16:06:47 except having heard the word 16:06:48 oerjan: why aren't you sober? 16:07:19 because an old friend came to town and bought a bottle of red wine 16:07:43 drink in moderation, or better yet, don't drink at all 16:08:04 it's the first time i drink since June. i think that's plenty of moderation. 16:08:24 AnMaster: why? drinking a lot is great for ideas, drinking a lot if great for getting things done that are not fun to do 16:08:40 *drinking a little to the first one 16:08:46 ,... 16:08:48 AnMaster: low-level humor, btw, iirc 16:08:50 the fucking latter one i mean 16:09:03 -!- oklokok has changed nick to oklopol. 16:09:09 afk for the rest of the evening 16:09:27 bie 16:13:58 this Orc thing, how is it esoteric? 16:15:57 not 16:15:58 it seems 16:16:17 isn't Orc a bit old? 16:16:22 * oerjan goes on a blanking rampage 16:16:39 delete, don't blank 16:16:39 :p 16:16:58 bottle of red wine? 16:17:08 isn't vodka beter for blanking? ;p 16:17:36 s/et/ett/ 16:17:41 possibly 16:18:34 hm we don't seem to have a deletion request template 16:19:04 you're an op 16:19:06 just delete it 16:19:26 i'm not 16:19:44 dang 16:19:48 oh 16:20:06 i have returned from breslavia todays morning and had no sleep 16:21:01 i know, it's easy to make that assumption from my air of wisdom and authority 16:21:26 correct 16:21:37 oerjan, why do you act sober when not sober? 16:21:49 i guess it's starting to wear off 16:22:46 it was only half a bottle after all 16:23:34 half a litre per capita is the definition of nothing, as we say in Poland 16:23:57 (vodka ofc) 16:24:05 if i wasn't seriously out of training it would probably have been nothing to me too 16:24:30 heh, I can't drink 16:24:37 maybe a beer sometimes 16:24:42 but not too much 16:24:57 ah, end of work, bbl 16:24:59 -!- nooga has quit ("Lost terminal"). 16:59:49 -!- AquaLoqua has joined. 17:07:47 -!- Slereah has joined. 17:10:30 -!- AquaLoqua has quit ("Dana"). 17:16:22 -!- kar8nga has joined. 17:22:38 http://esolangs.org/wiki/1cnis <<< doesn't perl have a "use" for getting bignums? 17:22:56 use fairly_big_numbers; 17:23:09 yes. 17:23:44 well yeah that wasn't really a question 17:25:09 -!- Slereah_ has quit (Read error: 113 (No route to host)). 17:27:17 THEN WHY DID YOU USE A QUESTION MARK DUMBASS 17:27:28 i mean, hi 17:27:33 -!- MizardX has quit (Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer)). 17:28:15 -!- MizardX has joined. 17:45:33 -!- Slereah_ has joined. 17:54:26 oerjan: i like you when you're drunk :D 17:54:32 well i guess you aren't anymore 17:54:52 i'm not half as think as you drunk i am 17:55:28 -!- Corun has joined. 18:03:04 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 18:04:14 -!- Slereah has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 19:03:45 -!- warrie has joined. 19:27:51 oko 19:59:02 bye 19:59:04 -!- Mony has quit ("Join the Damnation now !"). 20:07:36 -!- Slereah has joined. 20:18:28 -!- Slereah_ has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 20:27:08 -!- Slereah_ has joined. 20:30:46 -!- olsner has joined. 20:36:44 ehird: concatenative 20:36:53 bsmntbombdood: wat 20:37:09 anyway, current thinking: I need to figure out how to do a purely-functional, applicationy-language without having a lisp-like (nested (tree)) 20:37:16 except: 20:37:23 no mutation allowed, and it has to be low-level [it's a vm] 20:37:27 keyword mutation there 20:37:32 ....concatenative 20:37:36 if you're pushin' 'n poppin' to a stack 20:37:36 i don't know what mutation means 20:37:38 you're mutating. 20:37:41 bsmntbombdood: changing. 20:37:47 ...i know that 20:38:37 i don't know what you mean 20:42:44 ditto. 20:44:44 I'm not sure how a "low-level"-feeling thing you'll get without having at least some registers. I'm sure you could do some sort of functional tarpit, though. 20:44:59 -!- Slereah has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 20:45:23 guys 20:45:43 http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?p=649306 20:46:10 i think psygnisfive just set a record for "time until conversation reaches offtopicity" 20:46:12 by starting off on it. 20:46:25 :) 20:46:29 this is esoteric. there is no topic 20:46:40 -!- psygnisfive has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | this is not the topic you are looking for. 20:47:40 i send that link because im curious if any of yous guys care to figure out some explanation for the phenomena that's explanation 20:47:41 excplanatory 20:48:41 -!- kar8nga has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)). 20:58:15 -!- Sgeo_ has joined. 20:58:34 nobody? nobody? 21:01:44 -!- kar8nga has joined. 21:05:01 -!- jix has joined. 21:05:37 -!- Sgeo_ has changed nick to Sgeo. 21:06:16 psygnisfive, what? 21:06:30 http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?p=649306 21:06:35 off topic 21:06:45 * AnMaster agrees with ehird 21:07:04 yes, but this is esoteric. nothing is on topic here. :P 21:07:38 i take it AnMaster commented inbetween 21:07:51 in which case i'd like to tell AnMaster that this channel is pretty anarchic, and just about any topic goes. 21:08:04 no, i ask here because i figure you guys like solving queer problems 21:08:08 you could ask how to program a turing machine to follow that rule. that would probably be utterly irrelevant to how the brain does it. 21:08:12 also, it's linguistics 21:08:13 and this is definitely a queer problem 21:08:16 and esoteric-y linguistics 21:08:17 sooooooo 21:08:40 hah, ehird changed point of view just to avoid agreeing with me 21:08:43 how sad 21:08:47 night all 21:08:51 lol 21:08:52 night 21:09:14 * ehird rreads logs. AnMaster: wrong 21:09:21 i said it was off-topic, i didn't say that was a bad thing. 21:09:49 ehird: thats an idea. how would you design a TM to follow that rule, without simply /listing/ all the different versions 21:10:00 -!- oerjan has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | all talking in channel forbidden. 21:10:10 there, now everything is guaranteed off topic 21:10:27 psygnisfive: i'd implement strong ai first. 21:10:40 -!- ehird has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | The topic is everything that AnMaster doesn't say. 21:10:55 ehird: :P 21:11:03 cmon be serious now 21:11:19 if AnMaster says [[http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | The topic is everything that AnMaster doesn't say]] 21:11:22 then he will cause a paradox 21:11:28 and we shall exile him. 21:11:48 -!- AnMaster has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | The topic is everything that ehird doesn't say. 21:12:36 -!- ehird has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | The topic is "AnMaster fails to sleep after saying so, due to defending himself against the annoying ehird, and probably sighing a lot in the process. /sigh". 21:13:16 -!- AnMaster has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | ehird thinks this is funny. I suggest lament sets a sane topic and then +t mode.. 21:13:28 AnMaster: it's not going to happen 21:13:36 the last time this channel was opped is when I got kicked on request 21:13:55 if you don't like us doing what the fuck we want, make your own channel 21:13:58 with a dictatorship. 21:13:59 well you are free to ignore me, but please don't try to be annoying then 21:14:01 so get lost 21:14:04 *shrug* 21:14:14 also I never said it was bad either 21:14:18 to be off topic 21:14:23 * ehird reads logs. I'll be as annoying as I'd like, I'm very sure you have an /ignore. I do; it's very useful for ignoring your blabber. 21:14:24 like you I just said it was off topic 21:15:09 there we go 21:15:11 ignored 21:15:13 good idea ehird 21:15:19 so ehird 21:15:23 sgeo 21:15:25 any ideas? :P 21:15:26 hi psygnisfive 21:15:28 nope 21:15:30 i'm no linguist 21:15:40 well pretend its not a linguistics problem at all 21:16:38 because its really not 21:16:47 i didn't read most of the post 21:16:47 :D 21:16:57 ok well heres a summary in linguistics-less terminology 21:17:21 -!- AnMaster has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | This topic may not be changed.. 21:17:31 -!- ehird has set topic: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/esoteric | o rly. 21:17:35 now night 21:17:36 cya 21:17:53 in a sequence consisting of {A, B, C, X}, when any of {A, B, C} precede X, the ordering is always A-B-C 21:18:01 the ordering of those that precede, i mean 21:18:05 wat 21:18:11 what what 21:18:15 in the butt 21:18:59 did you not what i said 21:19:13 no, he accidentally all of it 21:19:25 yep... the WHOLE thing 21:19:26 did you not get* 21:19:27 :P 21:19:34 i mean, i was just there, right 21:19:42 and i accidentally the WHOLE WHAT YOU SAID 21:19:43 :\ 21:19:51 jesus, it was really. 21:19:58 should i explain it again? :P 21:20:06 After I accidentally it?! 21:20:10 No way! Not again! 21:20:14 that's unpossible! 21:20:23 * psygnisfive stabs ehird in the face 21:20:34 You purposefully my whole face! 21:21:17 * psygnisfive fucks ehird in the face 21:21:31 You purposefully carrier lost 21:21:42 whaa 21:22:10 african or european carrier? 21:22:18 lost carrier 21:23:47 Lava 21:23:49 4 pieces of 21:23:50 3 pieces of 21:23:50 Lava 21:23:52 Infinite lava 21:23:55 Delicious 21:23:57 Benny Lava! 21:24:00 For your breakfast lunchtime! 21:24:12 I love the lava live and it loves me... 21:25:19 -!- Sgeo has changed nick to Sgeo_. 21:25:25 -!- Sgeo_ has changed nick to Sgeo. 21:29:40 ok a silly idea, there are 5 slots. the first can only contain an A, the second B, etc., the last can contain any of A B C 21:31:40 the remainder is left as an exercise for the reader 21:32:16 hey psygnisfive 21:32:26 do you like smalltalk (the programming language, damnit) 21:34:39 never used it 21:35:17 oerjan: well thats not the whole of it: 21:35:37 when _any_ of {A, B, C} precedes X, the order is A-B-C 21:35:42 among those that precede. 21:35:58 but when they follow X, the order among those that follow is unrestricted 21:35:59 -!- nooga has joined. 21:36:03 well duh the slots are ordered 21:36:50 -!- Corun has quit ("Leaving"). 21:36:54 -!- trave has joined. 21:36:55 so, was there a conclusion about this functional VM? 21:36:57 but order within a slot is arbitrary 21:37:02 nooga: not yet 21:37:11 what do you mean order within a slot?? 21:37:14 though only the last slot can contain more than one element 21:37:27 oh i see 21:37:46 so you mean theres something like [1] [2] [3] X [4] 21:37:49 yes 21:38:09 [1] - [3] restricted to containing only one item, while [4] can have n items 21:38:31 and [1] - [3] are content restricted 21:38:38 * oerjan gives psygnisfive a C on the exercise 21:38:42 well this works, but its not very explanator :( 21:38:45 y 21:38:50 so? 21:39:08 well the challenge was to find an explanatory way of describing the restrictions :P 21:39:23 you _really_ expect anything to explain it better than what you actually said? 21:40:02 the actual explanation may involve neuron structure and genes, in a horribly twisted way 21:40:05 sure! there are actually atleast two explanations that are relatively simple, in that the orderings just sort of fall out of the assumptions you put on the systems 21:40:20 oh i dont mean neuronal/genetic explanations i mean computational system explanations 21:41:01 there are two really simple explanations, as i said. they're both very very computationally oriented 21:41:40 rather than just an arbitrary specification like your slot hypothesis 21:41:51 would anyone be interested in checking out a diagram i put together, that attempts to associate the color spectrum to specific definitions? 21:41:59 sure :D 21:42:04 yep 21:42:12 that was just intended to be quasi-linguistic 21:42:23 http://illuminerd.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/om-resource-system/ 21:42:28 oerjan: syntax is very computationally. 21:42:52 im writing a paper for a syntax seminar on the restrictions that the formal system we use has 21:42:55 trave: makes sense to me. 21:43:03 :) 21:43:13 trave: i dont get it. 21:43:52 im hoping to work out a GTD style organizing system that you can log every aspect of "life" into color coded compartments 21:43:59 looks colorful and nice 21:44:40 so, like if it was an iPhone application, youd have a spinning color coded sphere where you can keep track of things in bins 21:44:57 so oerjan: no ideas besides that? :( 21:45:17 psygnisfive: i find the idea boring 21:45:21 :( 21:45:39 object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. -- rob pike 21:45:57 roman numerals in their original form were actually pretty darn useful 21:46:13 he's right; although i like oop - 21:46:24 roman numerals were useful, but that doesn't stop them being primitive 21:46:56 psygnisfive: what is U20 v2 ? 21:47:00 what id like to see is relations between these object spheres, how resources are related between parties 21:47:41 trave: i don't get it 21:48:39 trave: i don't get it 21:48:43 id have to post this other word doc that i wrote up that explains the mechanics of the idea more, rather than the esoteric color associates 21:48:47 associations 21:49:00 wait, how are the associations esoteric? 21:49:10 ... ohhh, you mean esoteric as in the non-programming language sense 21:49:11 colors == elements 21:49:24 i didn't realise because this channel is often offtopic, but the official topic is esoteric programming languages 21:49:30 ooh, i didnt know esoteric was a programming language, hah 21:49:35 nooga: pms 21:49:37 it's not 21:49:42 http://esolangs.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language 21:49:47 it's a type of proglang 21:49:50 but umm anything goes here 21:49:51 :P 21:50:23 ah that makes sense 21:50:25 :D 21:51:07 this is pretty much the most generic channel on irc. 21:51:49 well, the elements can be associated to colors, red/fire, blue/water, green/earth, etc. and the "purpose" of those elements can be given broader meanings... so like yellow == wind == words, etc. 21:52:22 psygnisfive: you mean ... http://encyclopediadramatica.com/PMS 21:52:28 or green == earth == money/property 21:52:28 no :P 21:52:32 private messages 21:52:33 -!- warrie has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 21:52:35 PMs 21:52:51 * ehird doesn't understand psygnisfive's PM obsession. 21:53:09 well, im talking to him about that ordering stuff and im sure you dont want to hear it so 21:53:33 i do it to not inconvenience you guys 21:53:56 we don't mind :P 21:54:14 meh. still. 21:56:17 i don't like *all* numbers 21:56:42 just REAL numbers? 21:57:58 those pesky tranfinite numbers. coming here living off welfare and and taking our jobs. 22:01:45 oerjan: thanks a lot... my *mother* is a transfinite number 22:03:36 -!- kar8nga has left (?). 22:04:01 not to mention an expert in cardinal sins 22:05:12 ba dum dum ching. 22:29:25 applause 22:32:20 -!- jix has quit ("..."). 22:34:31 -!- olsner has quit ("Leaving"). 22:34:55 -!- Corun has joined. 22:35:01 textual esoteric languages are boring 22:35:31 so last year. this is the age of _smell_ 22:35:40 no no no 22:35:41 touch 22:35:44 sexual programming languages. 22:35:45 ehird: Stage 69 has me beat. 22:35:53 GregorR: which is that 22:36:10 clearly a problem in the sexual programming 22:36:11 oerjan: Hey ... I'm anosmic :( 22:36:24 ehird: The evil one. 22:36:27 ehird: :P 22:36:29 GregorR: what's the code 22:36:47 also, ansomic: awesome 22:36:48 763-716 22:37:44 eh 22:37:46 it doesn't look hard 22:37:47 tedious yes 22:37:49 but not hard 22:38:11 I can't get the third one. 22:38:16 The first two and last one are trivial. 22:38:19 I'll try it. 22:38:41 is it the one with four uppity-caves you have to climb 22:38:46 whats so hard about it 22:38:46 Yes 22:38:50 what is that game? 22:38:52 And the third is EVIL 22:38:57 http://dotaction.fizzlebot.com/ 22:39:03 how is it hard 22:39:05 it just looks tediou 22:39:06 s 22:39:12 GregorR: you should apply for a service dog that can translate the smells for you 22:39:24 it's pretty easy, you just jump, and hit left very quickly just as you're on the hole, so you get on the brink 22:39:27 then just repeat 22:39:35 you can only fail in the middle doing that 22:39:46 oklopol: ORLY THANX I NEVR THOT OF THAT LAWL 22:39:48 * GregorR slaps oklopol 22:40:03 oerjan: Yes. Because anosmia is life-hindering :P 22:40:14 ansomnia would be awesome 22:40:19 GregorR: err, you can't do it like that? 22:40:22 smells, in general, aren't overwhelmingly interesting 22:40:26 and yet 22:40:31 you get to not deal with all the crappy smells 22:40:32 i envy you sir 22:40:52 ehird: Do you like tea, coffee or beer? 22:40:56 when i discovered that, i did it in two tries 22:41:03 Toffeer 22:41:06 oklopol: I can't get the timing right X_X 22:41:26 ehird: They all taste like bitter water to me. 22:41:26 GregorR: it's pretty trivial to just hit the button when you're at the hole. 22:41:34 oklopol: Yeah, well so's your face. 22:41:34 GregorR: Oh :( 22:41:37 GregorR: What about chocolate? 22:41:56 ehird: Dark chocolate is good ... it's a good bitterness ... bitterness combined with deep flavor ... like Moxie. 22:42:09 GregorR: i'm going to tell you that about every level until you beat 97 ;) 22:42:09 So basically everything is bitter to you :P 22:42:15 * oklopol is at 98, and not playing atm 22:42:29 atm meaning like, probably not this week 22:42:37 ehird: Well, I don't like milk chocolate, that was just a bad example :P 22:42:49 ehird: Chicken does not taste bitter to me. 22:42:58 ehird: Turkey (more relevantly) does not taste bitter to me. 22:43:36 btw, the last tower is the hard one 22:43:39 the third one is easy 22:43:51 -!- trave_ has joined. 22:44:28 Whaaa? I did the last tower on my first try! All you have to do is get at the edge of each hole and jump, you can't overrun getting into the next hole so just hold down (and of course make sure to pull up before falling off the edge, but that's not hard) 22:44:38 -!- trave has quit (Nick collision from services.). 22:44:42 -!- trave_ has changed nick to trave. 22:44:45 Are we talking abotu the same one 22:45:01 I think so X-P 22:45:17 Level bow-chicka-bow-wow. 22:45:40 isn't it more like bow-bow-chicka-wow? 22:46:20 -!- GreaseMonkey has joined. 22:46:21 i must flee now, i have AN INFINITE SET to prove things about 22:46:22 --> 22:46:33 (IT'S FUCKING INFINITE) 22:46:43 that's what _she_ said 22:48:40 in regards to how long you have to wait to get some? 22:48:58 OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 22:48:59 Burn. 22:50:17 -!- Corun has quit ("The forks."). 22:50:25 GregorR: falling into the lava again? 22:54:44 GregorR: i had a friend who's dad falled from a cliff and crashed his head... after that he was forced to discover flavours again 22:55:10 so he ate things like a sausage with chocolate and mayonaise 22:55:22 nooga: ... yum ... or not. 22:55:32 or jam with pepper and cucumber 22:56:17 I notice that in both of your examples there's really only one offensive ingredient :P 22:56:33 liver with strawberries + smoking a cig 22:56:37 and so on 22:57:31 brb 22:57:56 GregorR is falling in lava? with whom? 22:58:04 with his LOVE 22:58:22 hey whazza full code again 22:58:28 :D 22:58:31 i have it 22:58:35 oklopol: wut iz it 22:58:37 but i think it's better if fizzie gives it 22:58:41 fizzie: 22:58:46 fizzie: can you give the full codie again? 22:58:56 fizzie: what's the code for 1-100? 22:59:10 fizzie: ehird wants to play can you give him the code? 23:00:09 oklopol: wut izi t 23:00:14 fizzie: We luv spamming u 23:00:19 fizzie: do u luv being spammed? 23:00:26 fizzie: cuz ur gunna get lots LAWL 23:02:11 oklopol: hes idle 23:02:12 just tell me 23:02:12 :< 23:03:27 :) 23:03:40 809-936 23:03:55 http://infosthetics.com/archives/chocolate_pie_chart.jpg 23:04:39 What that chart tells me is that white chocolate sucks (which it does), milk chocolate sorta sucks, and dark chocolate is good. 23:04:52 thank you ok 23:04:53 oklopol: 23:04:59 why milk chocolate sorta sucks? 23:04:59 hey i like white chocolate 23:05:07 milk chocolate has the majority of the pie 23:05:10 also milk chocolate. also dark chocolate. 23:05:25 i... pretty much just like chocolate 23:05:44 chocolate is pretty tasty. 23:05:47 but i prefer meat 23:05:48 White chocolate isn't chocolate. 23:05:53 Don't go calling white chocolate a type of chocolate. 23:05:55 Because it's not. 23:05:56 It's a LIE. 23:05:56 actually it is schocolate. 23:06:10 since its made from cocoa butter. 23:06:20 well, its sort of chocolate. 23:06:43 IT'S A LIE 23:06:44 it lacks the cacao 23:09:06 proper chocolate is just basically ground up chocolate bean + milk and sugar and such, while white chocolate is chocolate bean fat + milk and sugar and such 23:09:21 Yes. 23:09:25 and such as. 23:09:27 Making it a LIE. 23:09:42 btw, white chocolate is tasty 23:09:44 so stfu 23:09:46 its only a lie if you require the phrase "white chocolate" to be strictly compositional 23:10:00 Also, the "such" contains the all-important and extremely-underrated ingredient vanilla. 23:10:04 And vanilla is delicious. 23:10:07 and for "chocolate" to mean all and only the products produced using the whole bean 23:10:08 oh yes 23:10:10 vanilla is delicious 23:10:14 mmmmmmmm 23:10:22 i hate it when people say "vanilla" is "plain" 23:10:24 And also a yellow-brown color. 23:10:26 it is so not 23:10:28 vanilla is not plain 23:10:33 vanilla is tasty and exploding and MMMMMM 23:10:35 if you make icecream without vanilla, it tastes bland 23:10:35 psygnisfive: It's all the fault of American ice cream companies. 23:10:37 everything is better with vanilla 23:10:38 thats plain 23:10:41 and everything is better with chocolate 23:10:42 and everything is better with bacon 23:10:44 add vanila and WOW 23:10:45 chocolate bacon has been done 23:10:45 but 23:10:46 not 23:10:50 vanilla chocolate bacon 23:10:56 IT MUST HAPPEN 23:11:06 There's vanilla in chocolate. 23:11:10 Therefore it has been done. 23:11:10 i actually refuse to make non-vanila icecream on a plain base 23:11:14 but NOT ENOUGH GregorR 23:11:15 egg & bacon icecream has been done 23:11:17 i only use vanilla icecream as a base 23:11:20 i do not like sweets 23:11:26 like, coffee icecream? 23:11:31 I prefer meat. 23:11:32 so much better if you start with a vanilla base 23:11:34 when i eat something sweet, i must smoke immediately 23:11:35 nooga: how dare you call chocolate sweets 23:11:40 how dare you call vanilla a sweet 23:11:40 to kill the flavour 23:11:45 (how dare you call bacon a sweet) 23:11:49 As well as yourself. 23:11:50 they are GODS of your PUNY EXISTANCE 23:11:54 and yeah 23:11:55 what GregorR said :P 23:12:03 soon you won't have to smoke after sweets! 23:12:07 or indeed eat at all! :D 23:12:13 Cancer cures smoking! 23:12:25 gregorr: apparently most american white chocolate has no cocoa butter at all 23:12:34 meh 23:12:38 Smoking cures cancer! For some definition of curing! Or cancer! OR SMOKING! 23:12:47 psygnisfive: That's because it's a LIE! :P 23:12:53 Anyway, corned beef is good. 23:12:53 non smokers are funny 23:13:04 "Smoking cures cancer, if by 'smoking' you mean 'chemotherapy'" 23:13:08 GregorR: are you playing the sequel to Portal? 23:13:13 THE WHITE CHOCOLATE IS A LIE 23:13:21 nooga: yes, smoking destroys the humor gland 23:13:23 psygnisfive: There's a sequel to Portal? X-P 23:13:30 not yet but if there were!@ 23:13:30 he was joking 23:13:49 erm 23:13:55 I was being optimistic :( 23:14:06 hoping and joking don't mix 23:14:17 Yeah, well so's your face. 23:14:33 touche 23:14:58 * GregorR has decided, spurned on by an episode of Scrubs, to use that in all situations in which it's nonsensical. 23:15:15 GregorR: Yeah, well so's your face. 23:15:19 Burn. 23:15:20 eh kurwa 23:15:20 GregorR: you needed the scrubs episode to motivate that? 23:15:24 Walked right into that one. 23:15:34 just being on the internet should've motivated you 23:15:34 psygnisfive: Yeah, but so's your face. 23:15:39 scrubs is great 23:15:43 yeah but you know what, GregorR? 23:15:46 YOUR FACE IS A LIE 23:15:46 oklopol: Yeah, well so's your face. 23:15:47 ...wait 23:15:52 D-8 23:16:00 ehird: yeah i've been told that 23:16:07 yeah i went there 23:16:27 i went into the Mixed Nerd Cultural Phraseology territory 23:16:33 AND WHAT 23:16:35 speaking of 23:16:39 Big Bang Theory 23:16:56 bang bang 23:17:04 bong bong 23:17:22 ooh yea 23:17:27 bing bing 23:17:42 what if the universe was created by a Big Bong? 23:17:51 :D:D:D 23:17:53 MNCPT is dangerous 23:17:54 the Big Bong theory 23:17:58 for your tongue 23:18:10 trave: the egyptians believed the universe was created by a very large ejaculation. 23:18:24 sweet. 23:18:28 this theory might've been inspired by a big bong, however. 23:18:36 i need to join the OTO and participate in some of that 23:18:50 and Big Bong theory assumes that it was a very large inhalation 23:18:55 hehe 23:19:38 *greetings from cancer* 23:20:18 -!- Slereah has joined. 23:20:54 then we have the theories of the Big Binge, the Big Bungee, and the Big Bongo 23:22:37 Big Bigloo 23:25:40 big bang theory tho 23:25:42 good show 23:25:43 very nerdy 23:25:45 very current 23:26:30 is there a "big gang bang" theory yet? 23:26:41 i think i just added that to the multi-verse 23:27:11 i was wondering... from where did they get words describing things and abstract ideas in various languages 23:27:31 im sure theres some possible world where there is such a theory 23:27:38 it's quite hard to make completely new dictionary from scratch 23:27:56 it started with Vowels from what I gather 23:28:30 theres only 5 "connecting" sounds, the consenants seem like theyre the static 23:28:39 psygnisfive: that show stole a game from one of Wooble (from ##nomic)'s friends 23:28:47 is it like "oh, i see that thing... let it be a wyeirmd... nah... or rather .... a tree ! (xD)" 23:28:48 apparently. http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html 23:28:55 ehird: what? 23:29:02 oh! 23:29:07 dude haha 23:29:08 thats awesome 23:29:18 i told you they're current 23:29:27 that game was invented 10 years ago. 23:29:31 still 23:29:33 its nergy 23:29:36 nerdy* 23:29:38 hebrew numbers are represented by alphabetic letters, there is no separation 23:29:47 :P 23:30:02 -!- Slereah_ has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 23:30:20 psygnisfive: what do you think about that? 23:30:41 ehird: still, how cool is that? someone from ##nomic, their friend, now has a game on a tv show 23:30:44 its cool dude cmon! 23:30:47 nooga: of what? 23:30:58 00:27 23:31:18 making a dictionary from scratch? 23:31:19 so, letters/sounds become associated to meaningful attributes, which then are strung together into words 23:31:20 psygnisfive: well, he wasn't credited or told about it and the show apparently portrayed it as if it'd invented it 23:31:26 and now people yell about it daily on his comment section 23:31:27 saying he stole it 23:31:37 i'm not sure the upside is good enough to cover that :-P 23:31:42 ehird: i dont think anyone believes they invented anything in the show 23:31:53 because its all very real 23:31:53 look at the comments. 23:31:54 i mean 23:32:01 sheldon twitters, for instance 23:32:10 well ok maybe some people think it was invented in the show but 23:32:23 the show is for real geeks 23:32:30 everything is an inside joke 23:32:34 what I find interesting is that before man evolved to a state of verbal language, we communicated like how "primitive" animals do through chemicals and mental vibes. 23:32:39 made funnier by the fact that its all genuine 23:32:47 trave: "man was originally primitive then evolved" 23:32:47 its parodying us by BEING us 23:32:48 deep. 23:33:16 trave: individual sounds arent associated with meanings really 23:33:28 thats one of the things about language that makes it language 23:33:41 chemical communication is neat because it lingers over time, chatter so temporary and "secret" 23:33:44 the actual sound content of words is arbitrary 23:34:08 but try to name things you see with your own words that arent riddiculous and do not resemble any words that you know for those things in the languages you know 23:34:11 hard, huh? 23:34:25 well im talking about the beginning of verbal communication, its gotten pretty fragmented with so many new variations and dialects over time 23:34:33 nooga: how's that hard? i have python 23:34:35 nooga: ofcourse its hard 23:34:38 we speak a particular language 23:34:51 trying to break out of that is difficult because the sound-meaning association is so very strong 23:35:06 trees just LOOK like they should be called "tree"! 23:35:25 but if you ask a french person, trees just LOOK like they should be called "arbre" 23:35:31 but 23:35:35 or a japanese person, trees just LOOK like they should be called "moku" 23:35:37 etc 23:35:41 -!- warrie has joined. 23:35:42 also it's pretty simple to start thinking in a random inexistant language, only educated fools think languages we know make us associate words with them 23:35:58 oklopol: you have to realise that you're bizarre 23:36:00 :P 23:36:16 a tree? i think it's should be called something with a shizzle 23:36:18 if you ask me in Polish, "co to jest?" (what is that) pointing a tree i will immediately say "drzewo" (a tree) 23:36:28 like znor 23:36:32 im curious about the ideas of orwells new-speak that 23:36:34 but when you ask me in English, i would immediately say "a tree"" 23:36:41 maybe with a CZZHHH at the end 23:36:53 hmm 23:37:02 ... reducing out all the redundancy out of language and working towards the most basic 23:37:04 nooga: it seems polish is pretty close to my idea word for tree then 23:37:13 możliwe 23:37:28 (possible) 23:37:41 maybe my brain is polish? 23:37:46 hehe 23:38:45 trave: it wouldnt do anything 23:38:55 i wouldn't be glad about that in your place ;p 23:39:15 the sapir-whorf hypothesis, that language constrains thought, is false. 23:39:18 patently. 23:39:54 i wish it was true because i like imagining AIs programmed in BASIC being really fucking dumb and yet making all kinds of cool shit 23:40:00 brainfuck ones twiddling away for ages to do incomprehensible stuff slowly 23:40:01 etc 23:40:16 hehah 23:40:20 well 23:40:27 thats a whole different issue there 23:40:32 true 23:40:35 a different way in which language affects "thought" 23:40:47 seen perl 6 ? 23:40:49 obviously since those languages are TC theres nothing one can do that the other cant 23:41:02 i get cha. the time it takes to read is already at the speed of thought, its arbitrary what the letter combinations are, its emotion that you are recording. 23:41:04 the sapir-whorf hypothesis tho is that we THINK in the language we SPEAK 23:41:10 which is not true 23:41:27 welllllll 23:41:27 trave: the speed of reading is actually not. 23:41:29 i think in english 23:41:30 a language that is capable of altering itself to the enourmous abstraction levels 23:41:30 most of the time 23:41:32 Fun experiment: read something, speak it, and type it all at the same time while thinking about something else entirely. 23:41:39 i dont mean what your inner voice is in, ehird 23:41:54 ouch, that makes my head hurt just visualizing that experiment 23:42:00 btw, everyone has a little monitor in their head right? 23:42:07 inner voices are definitely in your native language, or whatever 23:42:09 as in, you can display images sort of... in the block of space on your head above your eyes 23:42:13 except it's kind of not there 23:42:16 it's kind of everywhere 23:42:24 i'm assuming this is normal 23:42:37 Actually, you have to think about what you're reading to some extent in order to speak it. 23:42:37 what i mean is that actual _thought_ is in your language 23:42:40 agh i just used that and eeeeek 23:42:42 it creeps me out 23:42:46 Just read it and type it at the same time. 23:42:47 like for instance 23:42:52 depending on situation i can think in my basic english, or polish or even both simultaneously 23:42:57 psygnisfive: TELL ME WHERE THOSE IMAGES ARE 23:42:58 :--------------------; 23:43:00 if your language lacked tense and words for time concepts 23:43:12 then you would be INCAPABLE of conceiving of the notion of time 23:43:19 ehird: there are no images. what? 23:43:26 there is no cartesian theatre. :P 23:43:34 psygnisfive: what, you mean you can't display images in your head?!?! 23:43:46 D: 23:43:50 thats not what i said ;) 23:43:54 oh. 23:43:58 it just freaks me out. 23:44:02 i can see them, but i can't see them in any place. 23:44:19 when you say see them but not in any place 23:44:22 what do you mean actually? 23:44:29 i don't see them with my eyes, i guess 23:44:31 i just... perceive them 23:44:34 I cannot think about calculus without thinking in English to some extent. 23:44:36 well yes sure 23:44:36 I can "see" them but they're not placed anywhere. 23:44:44 i'm assuming everyone else can do that/ 23:44:48 * warrie realizes that he's had ehird on ignore all this time, and /unignores him 23:44:48 but are they in space around you? 23:44:51 i.e. just conjour up an image? 23:44:53 it'r rather like you create a more or less abstract scene described in brain compatible format 23:44:53 and no. 23:45:00 they're... nowhere, really. 23:45:00 huh thats interesting 23:45:04 -!- Slereah has quit (Read error: 145 (Connection timed out)). 23:45:05 ...that was wrong. 23:45:12 psygnisfive: imagine a random scene 23:45:13 in your head 23:45:14 I cannot think about calculus without thinking in images to some extent. 23:45:15 -!- Slereah_ has joined. 23:45:16 can you see it if you try to? 23:45:17 this is related to what that diagram i showed you guys is all about... all these various tangible/intangible "objects", can be organized into nested meaningful color-coded levels. for example: blue == water (emotions/life) == people... 23:45:18 just think of an image 23:45:25 and you know where exactly are things on that scene and what happens there 23:45:29 you can perceive it, right? 23:45:32 but you don't see it anywhere 23:45:36 and there's no actual seeing to speak of 23:45:37 yet it's there 23:45:38 yes, but its sort of within my spacial model of the world, to an extent 23:45:51 psygnisfive: does it like, appear in front of you? 23:46:03 if you have had enough mushrooms, it does 23:46:04 not that its anyhere in particular, but its not exactly completely dislocated from a spatial position 23:46:23 it doesnt appear in from of me in the sense that it looks as real as things i see with my eyes 23:46:25 Use the word "hallucinate". 23:46:47 psygnisfive: it kind of appears above my range of eyes 23:46:47 but then 23:46:50 it can appear anywhere 23:46:50 but it inherently has a position in my internal model of space 23:46:52 without being there 23:47:00 it is weird. 23:47:01 Most people can think of images. Most people cannot voluntarily hallucinate them. 23:47:03 well, ehird, i think we should distinguish two things 23:47:08 warrie: of course 23:47:13 i'm asking how they think of them 23:47:15 one: whether it "looks" the same as stuff you see with your eyes 23:47:24 e.g. can you tell whether its an imagined image or a real one 23:47:31 painter can show you the image from his head 23:47:41 and two: whether it necessarily occupies a position in space or not 23:47:50 the two aren't the same 23:48:14 i can imagine something in front of my eyes, in my normal visual field, but its distinguishably not coming from my eyeballs 23:48:27 its the third eye :] 23:48:46 im not entirely sure i can envision it outside of my visual field. perhaps only partially 23:48:52 i had a pretty vivid dream once standing above my bed, i could see the room like plain as day. 23:49:07 but that does make a lot of sense, because visual imagination is _very_ strongly tied into the actual visual cortex of the brain 23:49:08 it happens sometimes 23:49:26 infact, when you visually imagine something, your visual cortex looks exactly as it would if you were actually seeing that thing 23:49:31 psygnisfive: right, I can picture mickey mouse on my deks, but it's very faint 23:49:33 the same goes for other imagination 23:49:36 it's obviously not there, and it's very very faint 23:49:36 to be out of body or not be out of body, that is the question 23:49:45 but 23:49:47 psygnisfive: 23:49:51 instead of trying to project an image 23:49:52 just think of one 23:49:55 just think of the image itself 23:49:58 completely dissociating things from places in the visual field is very difficult i think 23:50:05 it'll appear *nowhere* 23:50:09 and yet it'll seem to appear somewhere 23:50:13 can you imagine a car that you hear on the street and place it on that street nest to your home while you can't see the car because there is a wall? 23:50:13 but you won't be able to place where it is 23:50:14 ehird: well, think of an image, as in "think of the mona lisa" 23:50:14 just htink of an image 23:50:18 psygnisfive: yea 23:50:20 just think of it 23:50:21 or ENVISION the mona lisa 23:50:26 think of it 23:50:31 call up FACTS, or call up VISUALS 23:50:33 and... turn on imaging mode 23:50:34 :P 23:50:35 i dunno 23:50:36 call up visuals 23:50:40 but don't try and project it 23:50:40 * warrie tries to think of his integration by parts picture without it being in any place 23:50:45 just think of the actual image object that represents it 23:51:13 I don't know if I can do it. 23:51:18 it comes naturally to me o.o;; 23:51:25 it's just what happens when i think of an imge. 23:51:26 *image 23:51:32 i can image mona lisa on the wall next to me 23:51:36 ehird: well, we might be experiencing the same thing 23:51:44 or i can imagine it nowhere 23:51:55 but i do think its tied in to a location in visual space 23:51:58 as well 23:51:59 does anyone else have a mind jukebox? i can play full songs in my head at command. 23:52:01 even if you get pinpoint it clearly 23:52:07 ehird: yep 23:52:09 and modify them in any way while they're playing. 23:52:12 it's weird. but fun. 23:52:14 ehird: sometimes yeah. 23:52:22 ehird: how easily can you pick apart chords and such? 23:52:31 ehird: especialy Pink Floyd 23:52:35 i dont have the memory for full songs, but i can occasionally end up almost hearing a song in my head 23:52:40 Do you have absolute pitch? 23:52:41 warrie: not at all; it's just blobs of audio data, except I can imagine a tune and it'll do it 23:52:43 but this is all precisely what you'd expect 23:52:47 i play with it so much that it invented a gui 23:52:48 Mm. 23:52:51 which appears in my no-space above my vision field 23:52:57 it looks basically like winamp or xmms XD 23:53:17 however 23:53:20 when i play back songs in my head 23:53:24 hah, thats fanciful. 23:53:24 I don't hear them through anything 23:53:26 heheh 23:53:27 or even hear in particular 23:53:33 sometimes my inner record play starts skipping :( 23:53:33 i just... the sound is there. 23:53:41 also, it's very low volume 23:53:44 it can't go loud 23:53:48 ehird: yes 23:53:53 this is whats called imagination :P 23:53:54 same as my visual projection is very faint 23:53:55 :P 23:53:55 everyone has that 23:53:57 psygnisfive: i know 23:54:01 i've just always been interested 23:54:06 in the sort of mechanics of it 23:54:09 oh 23:54:16 our subconcious can probably just barely hear "our" end much the same way 23:54:16 well i think its fairly trivial actually 23:54:17 playing Pink Floyd - Dogs, second solo, atm 23:54:17 i.e. how other people percieve it 23:54:19 in terms of cognitive mechanisms 23:54:41 I have absolute pitch (though I can't easily recognize anything except G) and can pick apart chords with some difficulty. I think it would be a little bit cool to be a musical savant or something. 23:54:53 I'm a musical idiot. 23:54:59 i have absolutely no musical knowledge whatsoever, this saddens me :( 23:55:03 being savant is cool 23:55:19 probably. 23:55:54 If you can sing in tune, you're not a musical idiot. Otherwise, we'll need to perform further testing. 23:56:14 warrie: I wouldn't know if I sang in tune. I couldn't tell. 23:56:18 I mean, i'm not tone deaf. 23:56:25 But I wouldn't be able to recognize if I was singing in tune. 23:56:35 Can you recognize if other people are singing in tune? 23:56:38 i can play the tune i imagine on a guitar if it's slow enough 23:56:50 ehird: interestingly, musical knowledge isn't stored in the brain in terms of absolute pitch but rather intervals 23:57:14 and its not stored in as just a single music-score like piece of information but rather a markov-chain-like structure 23:57:15 thats why all those 8bit nintendo loops get recalled in my mind so easilly 23:57:16 nooga: then you're either more talented or more practiced than me. 23:57:19 warrie: yes, that's pretty obvious, I guess 23:57:22 or a linked list sort of structure 23:57:27 also, I'm absolutely, absolutely useless at playing an instrument 23:57:54 ehird: so if someone shifted in key by a little bit between phrases of the national anthem, you'd notice. 23:58:01 warrie: Probably not. 23:58:06 * warrie nods 23:58:41 ehird: have you read anything by dennett or ramachandran? 23:58:55 fraid not. 23:59:13 you should 23:59:14 I once had the opportunity to listen to other-smart-guy sing. I was disappointed at his lack of singing ability. I still wonder whether he thinks like me or not. 23:59:16 lots of good stuff 23:59:20 psygnisfive: kay 23:59:23 dennett: consciousness explained 23:59:28 ramachandran: phantoms in the brain 23:59:44 btw, is there ANY person who hasn't come up with the idea of "what if everyone saw colours different to me - i'd never know"? 23:59:51 absolutely EVERY person i've talked to thought of that at one point in their lives