void4

Some cool stuff I came across: There exist quite a few camera networks all around the world which capture vast areas of the night sky, like the Australian [Desert Fireball...

The [Hutter Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize) awards prize money for improving the lossless data compression ratio of natural language text. Participants can submit a compressor and decompressor, or a compressed file and decompressor...

- shittiest API: [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/) - most addictive: [collections](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html) ([.Counter](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter)/[.defaultdict](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.defaultdict)) - recurrently useful: [glob](https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html), [shutil](https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html), [BeautifulSoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/) - "i didn't know this was built-in, but now this one time that i need...

I encountered this infographic today: [Characteristics of National Socialist Language according to Victor Klemperer (1947)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kategorisiertes_Exzerpt_aus_Victor_Klemperers_%22LTI_-_Notizbuch_eines_Philologen%22.png) whose book [LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Imperii) I remember being mandatory reading in school. I...

(work in progress) ## Who this is for Maybe you should only read this if you don't want to go into the hobby yourself. One of the great advantages of...

Things that confuse me

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- existence - consciousness - relativity (of simultaneity, time dilation, frame dragging, formulas) - true randomness (e.g. [particle decay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_decay)) - nature/interrelation of [dimensionless constants](https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/constants.html) - rotation - Collatz-like problems -...

https://esolangs.org/wiki/RarVM https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/41 ("Unlocking the future") - metered, secure resource sharing between devices - deterministic, resource metered execution supports replicated state machines/consensus objects/blockchains - genetic programming - with a limited communication...

Quotes

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"Blockchains are machines built out of agreement" - Mark S. Miller

["Money creation in the modern economy"](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf) by the Bank of England tl;dr: When banks lend money, they don't use existing customer deposits for this or loan money from the central...

Explanation of properties: Persistence: (Parts of) the system can be serialized. Detachable: Smallest independent unit Distribution: Level to which a composable system can be safely distributed Universality: Usefulness as a...