The Philadelphia Inquirer: Cryptography pioneer Silvio Micali on where crypto is headed

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Cryptography pioneer Silvio Micali on where crypto is headed. https://www.inquirer.com/business/technology/cyrpto-mit-pioneer-micali-blockchain-20220508.html "About 40 years ago, Silvio Micali and his colleague Shafi Goldwasser wanted to figure out how to play poker tog

Gunner resigns, saying ‘head and heart’ no longer in job

Gunner, 46, will continue as the Member for Fannie Bay and move to the backbench. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-10/nt-chief-minister-michael-gunner-quits/101052528 SAD!

Cryptocurrency: Stablecoins, what do you think?

On 5/10/22, Gunnar Larson wrote: > stablecoin[s] > What do you think? All stablecoins are frauds, the coins and their holders will all lose in the end, so it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about them.

The paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own addictive social media platforms

This conversation takes place in the context of media hullabaloo about Elon Musk seeking to purchase Twitter, the paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own the addictive social media platforms over which so much social and political life is engaged and what positives we can draw from alternativ

USDP vs USDD

USDP meets USDD: https://usdd.io/USDD-en.pdf This is not the Da Vinci Code ... but DP and now DD are of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style of stablecoin branding and pure market innovation. Potentially DD is making fun of DP? What do you think?

Re: War re Ukraine: Thread

https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2022/05/8/7344860/

Been in the infowars, have we

" . . . status hearing of the other Infowars employee who was supposed to have a status hearing today,  videographer Sam Montoya, was continued so he, too, can continue to discuss a plea deal. . . ." https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/05/09/amid-plea-discussions-owen-shroyer-submits-a-half-hearted-

Elon Musk - Tinpot Dictators, deputy sheriff

AASchapiro · 7h And as it stands, Twitter does NOT comply with a huge portion of legal requests — they resist requests all the time. So...is what Musk suggesting that he will direct the Twitter team to just, take all government requests at face value? https://twitter.com/AASchapiro/status/1523

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

"I don't know how to survive that right now."

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

My head is my butt. Can we address the following PLEASE: On 5/9/22, Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > "This worker doesn't want their body forced into the shape of this other > person's neurons." > > Secret Translation: > "Please help me heal everyone by vivisecting this per

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

--- "Gezundheit!" Secret Translation: "Please bring everybody back to life. Right now. Please."

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

"My head is my butt again." Secret translation: "My head is my butt again."

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

--- "My tummy feel funny." Secret translation: Two more militaries have stormed and set aflame the south and east wings. The neighboring business park has been lost.

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

Maybe I'll read the next page of "getting started" and then jump to PPO and the api interfaces. https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/guide/rl_tips.html RL Resource Page: https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/guide/rl.html Oh! a normative tutorial: https://github.com/ar

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

Refresher: env = gym.make(environment_name) model = PolicyClass('MlpPolicy', evn, verbose=1, ...) # for discrete action spaces? model.learn(total_timesteps=10, ...)

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

Attendee [raising hand]: "Didn't your research program only let you do things that increased Boss's power?" Semi-Disguised Vivisectee flickers a bit, looking flustered, then: "I am Boss. Any further questions?"

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

"They're quite powerful now, and a useful and mainstream tool. It's important to learn them."

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

-- RL Class Semi-Disguised Vivisectee: "Reinforcement Learning algorithms were something we found for Boss's Research Program, to help spread mind control under the guise of AI, so people would learn about this."

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

A cleanup worker visits the local MindControlSpace. Respected Public Figure: "Ok, ok, I get the joke, take down the fake sign." Volunteer: "This is real. Would you like a free introduction to building your own noninvasive mind control device?" Respect Public Figure pauses. Respected Public Figu

Clearview AI agrees to restrict US sales of facial recognition mostly to law enforcement

Clearview AI agrees to restrict US sales of facial recognition mostly to law enforcement https://share.newsbreak.com/11k3f4f4

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

Mind Control Hacker/Maker -space A few excited workers, vivisectees, and rebels, after talking to some technical cafe goers, decided they would launch a hackerspace around the theme of exotic technology. "MindControlSpace" they called it, with a logo of a crossed bonesaw and arduino. It was huge

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

Boss, Rebel Worker 2, and Experimentee stand at the center of nuclear detonation. You can read more about nuclear explosions at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions . Basically, it isn't reasonable to expect an object to exist afterward, if it is at the center of one. How

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

I am _so_ excited to mind control myself to recruit an infinite number of subhive workers for the Borg Queen! I am _totally_ going to get a bigger infinite number of workers than my peers. > Stable Baselines3 (SB3) is a set of reliable implementations of reinforcement > learning > algorithms in P

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

Next might be: Stable Baselines 3 documentation: https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master "dive in and try some tutorials" I might need some more story to continue, unsure.

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

Ok, that page was so short!!! Back to: Lunar Lander Documentation: https://www.gymlibrary.ml/environments/box2d/lunar_lander > Action Space: Discrete(4) Action is 1 of 4 integers > Observation Shape: (8,) Observation space is an unbounded 8-vector > Observation High: [inf inf inf inf inf inf inf

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

Let's build a mind control corporation and then design a mind control program for governments to stop crime with! We'll call it "emergency safety parameters", and sell national votes in the underground market. I'm _so_ excited about this business plan. Lunar Lander Documentation: https://www.gymli

Re: Unsubscribing from the list

Hello, On 5/8/22 13:28, zeynepaydogan wrote: I've been using Protonmail for a long,long time.I have so many email addresses, and I'm sorry that Protonmail has changed its privacy policy for a while.I will no longer use an e-mail service that gives them data when governments demand data.That

Meta faces lawsuit over logo

Another nothingbuger yawn-law story from Popgun.  Time larceny.   Jesus Fucking Christ. This is a law story with substance - THIS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte

Meta faces lawsuit over logo

https://www.fastcompany.com/90749484/meta-faces-lawsuit-over-logo Meta faces lawsuit over logo A blockchain organization is suing Meta for using a logo similar to its own, claiming Meta’s ‘sordid online privacy history’ could jeop

Re: CIA MK Ultra The True Story of Julian Assange

> And who does ' just like the rest ' refer to on your planet? Assange’s friend “Rapelbaum”

Re: CIA MK Ultra The True Story of Julian Assange

"...  Assange is a serial rapist and a lying fraud, just like the rest . I hope everyone realizes the truth. . . ' You care so much about the truth you retail this Qanon dreck. And who does ' just like the rest ' refer to on your planet?

Musk’s Twitter Buyout Challenged by Florida Pension Fund (2)

Any big LBO in the news might remind some of the gray-grizzled punks here about RJR Nabisco and the original king of junk-bonds. They even made an entertaining movie about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate_(film) Another classic from that era " Den of Thieves ' featured S

Re: CIA MK Ultra The True Story of Julian Assange

> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2022 at 9:40 PM > From: "professor rat" > To: CypherPunks > Subject: Re: CIA MK Ultra The True Story of Julian Assange > Assange said publicly he respects govt privacy. The onus is on his deadender > Manson-like followers to explain comments like this . . .  > "... Mr As

Musk’s Twitter Buyout Challenged by Florida Pension Fund (2)

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/musks-twitter-buyout-challenged-by-florida-police-pension-fund Musk’s Twitter Buyout Challenged by Florida Pension Fund (2) Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc. was challenged in a lawsuit by a Florida pension fund that argues the deal can’t

Everyone a remailer

C-PUNK style Mixer obfuscates data linking users to essential Govt-shitcoin-to-crypto laundering https://ambcrypto.com/bitcoin-mixer-obfuscates-the-data-linking-users-to-bitcoin-transfers/

Cult of the dead Roman-Catholic terrorist

Before teh Jan 6 Maggot attack there was shitty Guy Fawkes  https://dailyhodl.com/2022/05/09/cult-daos-revolt-to-earn-concept-draws-the-attention-of-anonymous/ Hate the sinners - love the sin

SCOTUS leaker is a hero on our side or an idiot on their side

" . . . the most overwhelmingly “sky is blue” obvious explanation continues to be that a liberal clerk leaked Alito’s deranged-language version of the ruling, both to give Americans time to preemptively fight back, and so moderates could clearly see the deranged nature of the ruling. https://ww

Catalonia as a haven for cryptocurrency.

When this issue was in the news I noticed the Journalist, Assmange run increased risks on its behalf. He was already on the bad side of his Ecuadorian hosts and they were giving him repeated warnings not to meddle in any foreign countries political affairs.  ( Examples available on request - Leni

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

> > Daydream side thread: what they did here was the problem have a certain > kind of difficulty and ease by presetting a reward schedule. Maybe ideally > a trained model would decide the reward schedule, which maybe ideally would > be part of this model I suppose, or maybe that would be unclear. >

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 docs was: lab1 was: draft: learning RL

Like an RL model, I have minimal working memory nowadays. So I'll need some docs to solve this model stuff. The lab says to read them. The challenge is to properly instantiate a PPO MlpPolicy model, and then to train it on a gym environment for 500k timesteps. Lunar Lander environment documentat

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

I misread step 4, it's just the environment not the training ! > It ends with a description of vectorised environments. The lab says stacking multiple independent environments gives more diverse experiences during training. One might prefer to have the agent decide this, but then it would get too

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

In colab, you have to click the little [ ] boxes next to the code blocks, so that they run, and this only succeeds if they're clicked from top to bottom so that the imports exist etc. I ran the example, and it took a bunch of random actions, but did not end the environment showing the lander is st

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 9:29 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > the lab says huggingface's model hub, which I mostly use a remote server > to store pretrained language models and send data to the to my goverment on > when and where I use them, now has deep reinforcement learn

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

the lab says huggingface's model hub, which I mostly use a remote server to store pretrained language models and send data to the to my goverment on when and where I use them, now has deep reinforcement learning models available at https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=reinforcement-learning&s

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

the notebook recaps the points of class 1, some things with rephrasing that adds clarity. it runs by default on colab. huggingface also supports amazon. step 0 is to change the runtime to gpu and I gotta remember this is a dangerous trap: my runtime is already set to gpu. the runtime on colab is

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] lab1 was: draft: learning RL

https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/deep-rl-class/blob/main/unit1/unit1.ipynb the goal is to learn rl and make/start a mind control business of our very own

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:14 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:05 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of >> Many wrote: >> >>> To represent norm

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:05 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> To represent normal goal behavior with maximization, the >>> > This is all confused to me, but normally

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:05 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > To represent normal goal behavior with maximization, the >>> >> This is all confused to me, but normally when we meet goals we don't influence things not related to the goal. This is not usually included

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:15 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:14 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of >> Many wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, M

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:18 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > I'm not doing this right now because I have something important to do > today that will need grounding in normality. > > But here's a draft: > > Learing RL > > Welcome, future Mind Control Business Owners! Our hi

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

> > To represent normal goal behavior with maximization, the return function >> needs to not only be incredibly complex, but also feed back to its own >> evaluation, in a way not provided for in these libraries. >> > Daydreaming: I'm thinking of how in reality and normality, we have

Re: [spam][ot][real-spam] Fwd: Confirmation Receipt 6011510616

I actually clicked that "view entire message" button at the bottom quite a few times. I don't know what my fate is, but I imagine it's similar to my present.

Re: [spam][ot][real-spam] Fwd: Confirmation Receipt 6011510616

Here's a copy paste of it from gmail mobile's full view, which shows some of the exploity things it is using. [image: Gmail] *Undiscussed Horrific Abuse Victim & Survivor Of >* -- *Confirmation Receipt 6011510616* -- *_Congrat_ * Mon, May 9,

[spam][ot][real-spam] Fwd: Confirmation Receipt 6011510616

This is some spam I just received, as many do. It was bccd to an email address I commonly use. It apparently represents that we're in a situation where we exposed to mostly options that have little real utility. Such situations can lead to locally good choices that can appear bad to others, poss

Abortion services in Turkey

Legal But Not Necessarily Available: Abortion Services at State Hospitals in Turkey https://gender.khas.edu.tr/en/legal-not-necessarily-available-abortion-services-state-hospitals-turkey#:~:text=Today%20in%20Turkey%20abortion%20is,through%20ten%20weeks%20of%20pregnancy.   If a woman is married s

Fake crypto-currency billboards in Turkey

I'm shocked - SHOCKED!  Round up the usual suspects.  https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-takes-legal-action-against-fake-billboard-ads-in-turkey Turkey is home to a large number of crypto investors that account for over 7% of the total traffic to Binance’s primary platform through a desktop

Re: Catalonia as a haven for cryptocurrency.

> > > https://twitter.com/OCCRP/status/1523409485364039682 I expect there is an error or two somewhere in the information we present here. The link says Russia is offering ten thousand troops to Catalonia. Catalonia is a nation controlled by Spain that I've heard desires independence. Stimulati

Abortion in America is legal on demand

Sorry. Abortion in Argentina is legal on demand  Abortion in Argentina is legal on demand in the first 14 weeks of gestation. The abortion law was liberalized after the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill (Argentina) was passed by the National Congress in December 2020. https://en.wikipedi

Catalonia as a haven for cryptocurrency.

OCCRP ·13h At the meeting with the Catalonians, Sadovnikov and his small entourage offered them 10,000 soldiers to help their independence bid. They also offered the astonishing sum of $500 billion. In exchange, the Russian delegation had one request... 4/ Organized Crime and Corruption Reporti

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:15 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > --- > > "Stop making us attack ourselves. Nukes go on _enemies_, not the > headquarters. Send attack somewhere else! Send attack somewhere else!" > > Secret Translation: > "Oops, I fell in the garbage disposal a

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:41 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:40 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:38 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of >> Many wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, M

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:40 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:38 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:22 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of >> Many wrote: >> >>> To represent norm

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:38 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:22 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> To represent normal goal behavior with maximization, the return function >>> needs to not only be incredibly complex,

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 4:22 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > To represent normal goal behavior with maximization, the return function >> needs to not only be incredibly complex, but also feed back to its own >> evaluation, in a way not provided for in these libraries. >> >

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

"This worker doesn't want their body forced into the shape of this other person's neurons." Secret Translation: "Please help me heal everyone by vivisecting this person in the way." This is a quick, habitual message that can be sent in 1-2 bytes, depending on protocol. >

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

> > To represent normal goal behavior with maximization, the return function > needs to not only be incredibly complex, but also feed back to its own > evaluation, in a way not provided for in these libraries. > It should have anything inside the policy that can change as part of its environment s

Re: [ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

--- "Stop making us attack ourselves. Nukes go on _enemies_, not the headquarters. Send attack somewhere else! Send attack somewhere else!" Secret Translation: "Oops, I fell in the garbage disposal again." >

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

> > bump >> >>> >> your mission, should you choose to accept it: make a premade simulation >> of a moon lander, successfully land, and confirm you have done so, karl (or >> anyone else). >> >> this can be broken into smaller steps if needed. >> > here is a direct link to the colab: https://colab

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

On Mon, May 9, 2022, 3:50 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > bump > >> > your mission, should you choose to accept it: make a premade simulation > of a moon lander, successfully land, and confirm you have done so, karl (or > anyone else). > > this can be broken into sma

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

> > "Reward hypothesis" : All goals can be expressed as the maximization of an > expected return. > Note: In my uneducated opinion, this hypothesis is _severely_ false. Maximization of a return is only a goal, if the goal is already a maximization of a return. Goals are _parts_ of behavior, wherea

Re: [ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL

bump > your mission, should you choose to accept it: make a premade simulation of a moon lander, successfully land, and confirm you have done so, karl (or anyone else). this can be broken into smaller steps if needed.

Back in the USSR

"Our current economical market system is unfit to meet the needs of our Armed Forces and of the entire country under these conditions. We need to move on to another system, I will tentatively call it 'military socialism' but any other title could also be used," the analyst, Konstantin Sivkov, st

[ot][crazy][wrong] snippet

-- Forwarded message - > My trauma was around covering up my own hurt for those who caused it. Just > a mess of freakin weird pain. I partly work for them when I post. > > > *What's your trauma* > eh something with a lot of power brainwashed me to mess my life and communities up,

Some Anglosphere anarchists are to the right of . . . Lindsay Graham!

At least on one issue - assassination politics.  Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said Sunday that the goal in the ongoing Ukraine war should be to "take out" Vladimir Putin https://www.newsweek.com/lets-take-out-putin-graham-doubles-down-ukraine-war-off-ramp-1704585 HEAR HEAR!  Bri

[ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs

"I am furious that some upstart has taken the corpses we incinerated and cobbled them together into a disgusting sculpture of a heart." Secret Translation: "It's so impressive that huggingface made such a clear introduction course, with such clear libraries for people to use, and an online c