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<Charles00>
The welfare nation state printing as much money as possible should hold a monopoly on legal tender for the rest of eternity. Taxing everyone who can't afford to escape to tax havens or evade through legal loop holes. It's only goal is to protect it's people from violence. It played it's part for the last 200 years but I don't think the government should have a monopoly on money. I forget when they made this a law but it's silly when you
<Charles00>
think about it. The dollars value depreciating 84% between 1954-1996. The only nation state with the lowest was 74% german mark. Also money laundering was always a thing. So what's your point? Only those that are rich should be able to money launder? Only those who have the credentials can speculate? Doesn't that just create oligarchs and monopolies on crime and extortion?
<bremner>
could we maybe agree to disagree, and keep the pros/cons of cryptocurrency in general for other venues?
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<Charles00>
sure. then lets treat it as a technology then and appreciate the people working on it. accusing a member of "drinking kool-aid" (a reference to cult members being tricked into suicide) is way worse than me pointing out some ideas about money. I never attacked anyone personally in the racket community. Instead I used sarcasm to express my views on our welfare state and its money monopoly. where as JA_c0p was being quite derogatory toward
<Charles00>
a member of the community -- Christoper of spritely being questioning his decision making or even sanity be "drinking the kool-aid". we don't need to agree but i did not prompt this I was only responding to this comment "Blockchain in practice has been all about unregulated financial speculation and money laundering, no idea how the Spritely author can drink the kool-aid on this"
<Charles00>
That's it. I just thought he had shared his opinion so I was going to share mine to some extent. at least in defense of someone as what seems like their main work. In his latest blog he called it his most important work he's ever done. I'm not saying he is doing something more important than anyone else. But he doesn't deserve to be accessed of drinking the kool aid and working on something that primarily is used for negative things (JA_
<Charles00>
c0p accusation not mine).
<Charles00>
no need to respond to anything I just said btw if you find it unrelated or offensive. Just white knighting spritely
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<Charles00>
Anyone read the book Don't Teach Coding: Until You've Read this Book? Simple but interesting in it's comparisons to natural language and programming language. Especially it's discussion about fmri activity of the brain demonstrating the broca area as playing a big role in programming. This is the same area used for speech production. Wernicke's area I don't think was mentioned -- the area of the brain that does speech comprehension. I as
<Charles00>
sume it would also be active
<Charles00>
I wonder what areas of the brain are associated with math? According to this study it isn't the language processing areas
<Charles00>
"Our work addresses the long-standing issue of the relationship between mathematics and language. By scanning professional mathematicians, we show that high-level mathematical reasoning rests on a set of brain areas that do not overlap with the classical left-hemisphere regions involved in language processing or verbal semantics. Instead, all domains of mathematics we tested (algebra, analysis, geometry, and topology) recruit a bil
<Charles00>
ateral network, of prefrontal, parietal, and inferior temporal regions, which is also activated when mathematicians or nonmathematicians recognize and manipulate numbers mentally. Our results suggest that high-level mathematical thinking makes minimal use of language areas and instead recruits circuits initially involved in space and number. This result may explain why knowledge of number and space, during early childhood, predicts
<dustyweb>
jA_cOp: my interest in collaborating with Agoric is so that we can collaborate with programs written in javascript more than any of the blockchain stuff
<dustyweb>
Agoric is talking about blockchains mainly because that's where their funding source is imo
<dustyweb>
spritely itself isn't particularly blockchain oriented, but it's true that once the captp bridge is along well enough you'll be able to talk to agoric's stuff
<dustyweb>
but also "blockchain" is the "cloud" of merkle trees... what do people mean? :)
<dustyweb>
signed git repos are technically blockchains
<dustyweb>
most vocabulary is fuzzy though I guess
<Charles00>
"In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block, and every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. Hash trees allow efficient and secure verification of the contents of large data structures. Hash trees are a generalization of hash lists and hash chains." still a bit confused o
<Charles00>
n this one
<Charles00>
"When you look at a binary tree, you can see there are lots of nodes in it. The bottom ones are called leaf, and all the others are called non-leaf. You can find more detail in "
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<Charles00>
"Zapping Broca's Area
<Charles00>
grammars more quickly (Vries et al. )That's right, zapping Broca's region seems to have benefits in language learning.
<Charles00>
The technique is non-invasive and seems to have observable positive effects even in healthy individuals – for example, improvements in working memory (Ke et al. 2019). Will we one day hook students up to brain stimulators while they learn to program?
<Charles00>
That day is probably far off. Don't try it at home.
<Charles00>
In artificial grammar learning studies, scientists make up entirely new, but very simple formal languages, with their own (designed) grammatical structures. In the learning and producing of these artificial languages, Broca's region is (as should be no surprise by now) also active in fMRIs (Fitch and Friederici 2012). In 2010, it was shown that transcranial direct current stimulation of Broca's region helped people learn these artificial
<Charles00>
Note that transcranial direct current stimulation is thought to work by increasing the firing ability of neurons in the “zapped” regions during the zapping period. When this is done during practice sessions, gains are observable in the long term.
<Charles00>
However, this line of research suggests something crucial: That Broca's area isn't just “what lights up” when you do language; but rather, it may play a key role in the language acquisition process itself.
<Charles00>
So even if such a thing were to be shown to work with languages more complicated than artificial grammars – it would be less of a sudden “I know kung fu” technology, and more of an “I can practice kung fu more effectively” technology."
<Charles00>
From the Don't Teach Coding Book. Interesting they included this
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<Charles00>
off topic but interesting...
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<Charles00>
What is the racket communities opinion on gnu code only? Projects like guile and guix that prevent closed source code? I have always respected this in the past but now it seems that mit licenses which don't care about closed source solutions are also a good option? Also what is the difference between apache and mit licenses and why does racket say you can choose which license you wish to use?
<Charles00>
Seems like they got away from gnu lgpl entirely
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<Charles00>
In dr racket is there a way to set the background color and the repl color? This is the symbol for string framework:syntax-color:scheme:string? What is the symbol for the repl under framework? What is the symbol for the definitions area?
<winny>
Hello, in the racket OOP system there is a concept of augment and inner. Is there a paper or language that inspired its use in racket?
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<Charles00>
You could look into E. Was an inspiration for. Not sure if it has those features tho
<Charles00>
nvr mind ignore that. wrong irc
<jA_cOp>
Tahoe-LAFS, I hope I get to try out Goblins soon :)
<jA_cOp>
Charles00: I'm sorry for using the "drinking the kool-aid" expression, I'll be more careful. We'll have to agree to disagree on the political role of blockchain cryptocurrencies (or take it out of band). dustyweb: you're right, interop is always nice, and I'm sure the Agoric devs are very smart people and their technical contributions valuable. Thanks for working to develop these ideas further, I was always fascinated by
<dustyweb>
jA_cOp: cool, let me know what you think :)
<jA_cOp>
All I can say so far is I like your Goblins docs/tutorial 👍️
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<Charles00>
no problem man. i had coffee last night so it had me typing away like a madman
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<oats>
does racket have anything equivalent to the "if __name__ == '__main__'" pattern in python?
<oats>
so you could write say, a little one-file script that you can also import as library for testing and development