Noah Thorp @noahthorp

I have half a mind To sharpen the cutting edge And half to dull it... Orion Spur, Milky Way Joined March 2008

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

2 years ago

Deep fakes can be identified by wide adoption of: 1. Watermarking technology (public/private key encryption) 2. Recording devices & editing tools that digitally sign their media 3. Hash chains to verify video integrity 4. Trusted publisher registries for watermarks

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

3 years ago

Every aspect of the future is uncertain ... allegedly.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

3 years ago

cc @aaronzlewis x.com/aaronzlewis/st…

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4 years ago

there's a lot of languages you can speak in english

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

3 years ago

"There's a system of symbols that no one will vouch for Everyone uses and no one believes" -Amanaemonesia, Chairlift Truth. Thanks @carolineplz

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

4 years ago

@bonkydog They aren't well known yet but should/will be. I was just telling another friend about them today. Good timing :)

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

4 years ago

@roybahat One reason gamers in complex IRL games like D&D talk about the rules so much is because they are powering the game engine with their dialog. When rules are automated dialog is freed up for play. So the ratio of "rules" vs "play" dialog is a good proxy for platform maturity.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

4 years ago

@roybahat Reminds me of when Douglas Adams defined a Nerd as "a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.” Recursive meta-cognition is a first order property of nerdery.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

4 years ago

@bonkydog Yes! Mysteriously, the 1/2 step spacing of notes in the major scale is the same spacing as the standard/Ghanaian clave rhythm; it also matches the Euclidean rhythm pattern E(7,12) for evenly spacing 7 pulses across 12 steps. Good for power plants too: youtube.com/watch?v=vwigqS…

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@gordonbrander That's kind of a meta-joke because 7 is the number people most frequently pick when asked to pick a random number between 1 and 10. Us humans even create artificial meaning when poorly attempting to create randomness.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@gordonbrander 7

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@zippy314 @GreatDismal Great point! If the iotas of all futures are present and there are polyfutures... then all iota-futures can gradually separate to become evenly distributed at the end of their timeline when no other iota-futures remain. Did we just write the next season of Loki?

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

Some say "the future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed". However, if in all present moments iotas of many futures are present then no future will ever be evenly distributed and achieve the status of "the future".

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

On average, conclusions drawn from averaging are misleading.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@bonkydog Yup. I remember my first > 1 day debugging quest. It was December of 1992. I was missing a semi-colon and my lazy C compiler didn't complain. That was also when I thought writing code with no comments "looked cooler" 🙃

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@robertwrighter Printing money pushes stock, real estate and asset USD price up relative to massive stimulus & quantitative easing. If you divide the S&P by the fed balance sheet you get something closer to a constant. The S&P chart shows an oversupply of USD dropping in value relative to stock.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@djbaskin Yesss, or one of these awesome 100MB Iomega Zip disks:

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@roybahat Yes and organizational kindness can only be fully realized by addressing context (e.g. market) and capability. People with good intentions sometimes build terrible orgs - especially when markets turn down or scale outpaces coordination capability.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@balajis At least for music, I think file sharing services declined because streaming is easier, has almost complete inventory and is basically cheaper than the cost of storing files. MP3s were a substitutes for CDs. YouTube is basically Napster now.

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Noah Thorp @noahthorp

5 years ago

@KieranSnyder @roybahat Yes it's interesting how things that "scale" commercially or socially often have a constrained component (like 280 characters) and an open component (like what you write). There is a generative interplay between sameness and variety.