ragmondo

I'm working on an IoT networked, time sync'd "Smart Dealer Poker Button" - replacing the plastic thing that gets passed around from the current dealer to the next dealer with a IoT display that informs players what level the blinds are etc etc.

Provisional patents went in recently so don't mind broadcasting to a wider audience beyond my poor, unknowing, testers

You can see it working here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Xup3kB1D0 and I literally put up a holding page for some media related surges (as it's all self hosted etc and I didn't want to mix my functional stuff with my spikey stuff) here ( name to be worked on, but "NUTS" is the current one) : https://buttonsqueeze.com

Here's a weird relationship between consecutive primes that I discovered while bored trying some python...

Take the last digit (in base 10) of consecutive primes. Now ignore 2 and 5 as .. well they only occur once, and look at the mapping between 1->3, 1->5, 1->7, 1->9 ... 3->1 etc etc..

You would think that they would pretty much all be equal, I mean primes are "random" right?

WRONG!

There are statistically significant differences in those edges, and no-one knows why.

It shows "state of mind" - i.e. the capability to understand another entities view of the world, and how that is influenced by their actions and other entities actions in the public chat.

I am curious about the prompt given to each AI ? Is that public ?

I did a snowboard thing at the weekend, saved via Garmin -> exported to this: https://cubetrek.com/replay/365919 . Obvs the map is viewed as per summer but it still looks pretty good. Thanks!

Without trying to digress, but why not make it modular too ? I.e. base model is a smart switch, one unit is the “base” unit and the rest talk to that. Possibly even add further switches, dials (thermostat or dimmer etc). Perfect placement in my opinion.

Yes - exactly this. If there are multiple needed, then some can be smarter/ more capable than others, but this removes the “just another box and cable(s)” issue.

My plea / request : Make a home assistant a DROP IN replacement for a standard light switch. It has power, its adds functionality from the get-go (smart lighting), it’s placed in a convenient position for the room and no extra wires etc required.

So I’m now predicting what the next captcha is going to ask…

Doesn't this kind of thing happen in every film regarding an AI becoming sentient ??

^ This.

100% (yes the literal 100%) of media regarding NFTs is purely about NFT art and it annoys the shit out of me. The fact that there is free form data (with some generally accepted fields used for consistency), and that this data can be owned and provably traced back to the originator is remarkably powerful Re: the poster's above example of a wedding certificate is a great example.

The most frustrating thing about this tech was the goldrush that happened and the inevitable crash. I view myself as something of a "pragmatic visionary" (yes self-proclaimed) and to see this tech completely abused was both confusing and crushing. I'm on the verge of releasing a platform that, underneath it all, uses NFTs because they have great use-cases, but none of the marketing material mentions it due to the fact that the media have wrecked the public's opinion of NFTs.

If I had to come up with an analogy, I would say that NFT art was akin to the Model-T coming out and the only use was people driving around a track and having a picture taken of them driving around a track. Yes you can do that but you've completely missed the point.

I have written a plain text to base64 encoder here : http://www.getbitcoin.info/assets/misc/base64generator.html

Soo.. instead of sharing keys, you can just share keywords and then generate the keys from the keywords. It's just javascript that I based on another base64 encoding example. Feel free to use as long as I get a credit somewhere.

have I just been 0day'd ??

???

Anonymity is not really the selling feature of bitcoin - in fact it really only offers pseudo-anonymity.

The fact that no-one else can just "print" bitcoins, and that you can transfer funds at internet speed to anybody else anywhere in the world and that (after a short time), the transaction cannot be reversed are the main utilities.

To enable hedging, someone would have to take a forward position in USD/BTC .. and at the moment, the market is in contango ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contango ) which means that the sentiment is that the price will continue to increase for the near term ... ie you'd have to be very brave indeed in order to put a limit on the expected BTC price.

I have had 3 similar requests - ie obviously spam. Here's hoping a reasonable middle ground can be found.

?? what did I just authorise ?? Sorry.. I have no idea what you are doing with my data and I regretted almost immediately the "grant permission" thing when it just said "Thanks ! You are now going to be 99% more efficient !". I couldn't find the revoke access button fast enough !

bzzt wrong. Most pools payout only after 100-120 blocks after the block they have mined is built upon by other miners (they go via an "estimate" then "unconfirmed" stage first). Additionally, the biggest mining pools either 1) only pay out their slave-miners after these confirms or 2) factor this in to their PPLNS slaves as a mining pool cost. Either way, you can bet they have enough in reserves to cover a small number of orphaned blocks. There will be no pools that fail after this event and I am prepared to bet on this.

Hi Sparkfun employee ! Can you send a link to the ftdi board or cable you require to do this ? Thanks.

Maybe he meant planet ?

I just put together an Android App to display physical merchants that accept bitcoin. Yes I agree the data is a bit sparse right now but I am populating it as I find lists of merchants (and you can also submit your own business if you want). The app is here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ragmondo

depending on what you have and where you are - try this website I knocked together to answer the eternal question "how do I get bitcoins" : http://bcfxer.appspot.com/

That's exactly what I thought. Apart from the person who takes your TV to the pawnshop charges you for taking it a 10% commission "in case it's worth less by the time it gets there" but with no refund if it's worth more. The frustrating thing for me is that ... it's just "too simple" . Hell I think I'm going to start a website luxury-cars-for-bitcoins.com and see if any suckers want to sell out.

I was going to say exactly the same thing. If your website is selling twitter bootstrap themes, chances are you need to put some effort into your theme.

If it's an intro page, a FAQ, a contact page and it's aimed at people who don't give a shit about if it looks like 1000 other websites then there's nothing wrong with that.

1) Do something 2) Tell people 3) Iterate

Sometimes you can swap over 1+2. Do not get hung up about not using the standard theme just because 0.1% of your visitors might recognise where it's from. Are they your target customers ?

but ... does it blend ?

exactly. I am in the same era as you and unfortunately haven't managed to hook facebook or google to hire me so my day consists of making the most out of the shit I am served each and every day. You know that 3 line shell script that accounts only needed to run once a year ? Yes that migrated into an 20,000 line perl module that HAS TO run every night without fail but nooooo do they want to (pay to) re-engineer it ? No. Because the customer would not benefit.

The most fun I have at work now is "try to get the most audacious python module through the firewall and then get it approved by the project manager as they have absolutely no clue about what I do".

Sorry kids but unless you make it (and make it big)... that's you in ten years time.

If I am honest, I have got over the "OMG what's it written in?" stage. If it works and if the (time saving per run * the times I need to run it ) > time it would take to write it myself, then .. that's a success. Then.. move onto the next issue to get some project tasks done, contract renewed, kids fed, mortgage paid etc etc etc.

Hey nice work!

Hey there ! Congrats for getting it done. I'm sure you've probably thought about this already - but have you considered wiring it up to google talk or a few other IMs ? That way people can play it a bit more easily on their phone etc etc.

I like the wikipedia DNS text lookup - I work in a "firewalled" environment where the unices are only allowed DNS queries. If only wikipedia could provide central switchboard numbers in their text fields as well ...

Does anybody know if there is a command for creating an infinite stream of the character "y" + carriage return ?