2012-07-17.log

--- Log opened Tue Jul 17 00:00:11 2012
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Mokbortolan_would anybody mind teaching me how to read my multimeter?00:22
Mokbortolan_it's the analog kind00:23
Mokbortolan_are the numbers on the dial multipliers?00:23
Mokbortolan_n/m, figured it out00:26
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Utopiahhttps://www.coursera.org/course/drugsandbrain03:41
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rdbUtopiah, cool, thanks for link05:09
Utopiahnp05:09
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kanzurehttp://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2012/05/the-latest-on-intelligence.html08:11
kanzureheh what? "Almost no genetic polymorphisms have been discovered that are consistently associated with variation of IQ in the normal range."08:11
kanzurehttp://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Nisbett-et-al.-2012.pdf08:11
kanzureParahSailin__: did you look at the ben wpan thing from qi hardware?08:18
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kanzurehttp://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/theprometheancell/diybio_first_impressions10:08
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AdrianG_hy guiz11:03
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kanzurefor x in `find . \( -name url.txt -o -name urls.txt \) -print`; do cat "$x"; done | grep http | wc -l11:05
kanzure1013211:05
kanzurethis is how i keep track of where i download all the things.11:06
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AdrianGkanzure when do you sleep11:14
AdrianGare you ever offline11:14
kanzurewell, i'm certainly never offline, but that is independent of my sleep11:15
kanzurei usually sleep between 1am and 6am11:15
AdrianG5 hrs?11:16
kanzureit varies11:16
Sanky|testdo you wake naturally or do you use alarms?11:17
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kanzurethat also varies, i wake naturally at 7 hours but i do tend to set alarms for <7 hours11:18
SanquiI see.11:18
kanzurewhy are my sleeping habits of sudden interest?11:19
SanquiI jumped at it since it was mentioned.11:19
kanzureif you are planning to rob me please rob me between the hours of 4pm and 6pm M-F and 3pm on Saturdays (Sundays aren't OK)11:19
SanquiI'll try to keep it in mind11:20
Lemminkainen_Sanqui: gonna steal kanzure 's potato11:21
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nmz787has anyone here actually read that Biopunk book?11:31
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diybio/biopunk.pdf11:32
kanzurei've flipped through it, but no. my grandma has, does that count?11:32
nmz787have you conversed with her about it?11:33
kanzurehmm, why do you ask?11:33
nmz787read that nature post you mentioned earlier11:34
kanzuredid marcus email you when he was writing the book?11:34
nmz787nope11:34
kanzurehe sent out emails to pretty much everyone in the book11:34
kanzureasking for permission to include certain things, or to look over certain passages, things like that..11:34
nmz787hmm11:35
nmz787I don't know why Meredith Patterson is mentioned and quoted so much, seems like openPCR accomplished more than she did11:35
nmz787at one point as I remember she was using the wrong kind of promoters or something, which is an easy google scholar search away11:36
kanzureopenpcr was after the book was published11:36
kanzuremeredith got a lot of press attention because she was the only alternative to "DIYbio" which had some issues with too-much-connections-to-igem or something11:37
kanzurethe other reason is because marcus was the one who originally did the story on meredith on AP11:38
kanzurewhich sorta started the media spiral death trap11:39
nmz787alternative to DIYbio?11:39
nmz787oh11:39
kanzurewell i mean, alternative person to focus on11:39
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kanzureremember, mac used to be running some part of igem (i forget which part), and jason was always a part of some harvard lab11:39
kanzureso by those standards, meredith was significantly more amateur :P11:39
nmz787sure11:41
* nsh wonders about superkuh's quitline11:42
kanzurenmz787: http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio/FAQ/News11:42
kanzurenmz787: he was fascinated by models of neuron firing for a while11:43
kanzureoops, i meant nsh11:44
nshah, thanks11:44
nshis that an accepted statement of fact then? or conjectural?11:44
kanzurehttp://superkuh.com/library/Neuroscience/Lipid%20Membrane/11:44
kanzurehe lost his files recently in an fbi raid, so it seems that some of the propagating-density-stuff is presently missing11:45
nsh"This FAQ for DIYbio is actively maintained by it's editors"  no apostrophe required11:45
nshheh, fbi raid?11:45
kanzurensh: http://superkuh.com/library/Neuroscience/Lipid%20Membrane/Rapid%20mechanical%20and%20thermal%20changes%20in%20the%20garfish%20olfactory%20nerve%20associated%20with%20propagated%20impulse_%20Tasaki%20I_%20Kusano%20K_%20Byrne%20PM_%201989.pdf11:45
kanzurensh: i didn't write that line (that was jonathan cline)11:46
kanzureand it's not actually 'actively' maintained :P i don't think he's edited it in a year.11:46
* nsh nods - just wasn't sure i could be bothered to create a login to edit it 11:46
nshokay11:46
kanzurehttp://superkuh.com/library/Neuroscience/Lipid%20Membrane/Phase%20transition%20in%20membrane%20with%20reference%20to%20nerve%20excitation_%20Kobatake%20Y_%20Tasaki%20I_%20Watanabe%20A_%20advbiophys_1971.pdf11:46
nshthanks and thanks11:46
kanzureoh, yeah, creating logins on openwetware is painful and stupid11:46
kanzurehttp://superkuh.com/library/Neuroscience/Lipid%20Membrane/Volume%20expansion%20of%20nonmyelinated%20nerve%20fibers%20during%20impulse%20conduction_%20Tasaki%20I_%20Byrne%20PM_%201990.pdf11:47
kanzurewell, anyway, i expect he would be better at picking out a good article11:47
* nsh nods11:48
AdrianGok11:48
AdrianGwhat are the most potent nootropics11:48
kanzurewell, there are many drugs that modulate the brain11:49
kanzuresome just make people feel good, which isn't a bad thing11:49
kanzureif you want an unpopular answer to your question, i would say that a minimum nootropic is one that has some measurable result like, making you better at making a better nootropic, which almost none do11:50
nshtell that to shulgin11:50
nmz787nsh: what is that quitline you're talking about?11:50
nmz787kanzure: fbi raid?11:50
kanzurethat's just shulgin being shulgin11:50
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kanzurenmz787: he doesn't want to talk about the raid11:51
nshunderstandably11:51
nmz787nsh: It'd be cool to meet Shulgin, but I think he's too old these days to entertain many folks11:51
kanzuretoo old? that's the best kind of old11:51
AdrianGkanzure:  if it makes me feel good its good enough for me11:51
kanzureAdrianG: then why not just use heroin11:51
AdrianGunsustainable11:51
AdrianGplus a messy administration path11:51
kanzureok. so it sounds like you don't actually want nootropics though?11:52
nshAdrianG, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25I-NBOMe11:52
nmz787nsh: i thought you meant like a toll-free phone number, e.g. smoking quitline11:52
AdrianGnah nootropics are good11:52
AdrianGnsh: what is it11:52
AdrianGa psychedelic?11:52
nshyes11:52
kanzurelike, what if the drug made you into a super-working transhumanist, but made you fucking miserable?11:52
nshlike university?11:52
AdrianGnsh: and whats so good about it11:52
AdrianGkanzure: you mean like meth?11:52
kanzurei haven't met any transhumanists on meth, or any productive transhumanists on meth11:53
* nsh chuckles11:53
kanzureso no, not like meth11:53
AdrianGim pretty sure desoxyn is very popular in the Silicon Valley.11:53
AdrianGive heard its the most common adhd drug in that area.11:53
nmz787nsh: looks like most of the items in PIHKAL11:53
nshAdrianG, http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_2CINBOMe.shtml11:54
nmz787desoxyn == meth11:54
nmz787in tablet11:54
nmz787:D11:54
AdrianGmethamphetamine is methamphetamine11:54
AdrianGnsh: i dont see anything nootropical about this11:54
kanzurei don't see what SV has to do with it11:54
nshit has some potential, though i suspect the main obstacles in psychedelic-based phenomenological research are intersubjective, rather than stereochemical11:54
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AdrianGplus i cannot take psychedelics11:54
AdrianGi have increased risks of HPPD11:54
kanzurei also don't see why it has to be a euphoric drug11:54
AdrianGbecause hyperthymia is conducive to being productive11:55
nshcreativity and euphoria are correlated11:55
AdrianGand difference between euphoria and hyperthymia is just that of a degree11:55
nmz787http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=9597711:55
nmz787one of two refs to transhumanist in the experiences11:55
kanzureyes but said "euphoria" hasn't been enough to make any of the meth-heads make better nootropics (which was my original test i offered)11:55
AdrianGmeth is a productivity drug.11:55
nmz787ibogaine is active in addiction treament centers in mexico11:55
nshkanzure, ok11:55
kanzureAdrianG: i am arguing that the production output is not interesting. cleaning? shit, hire someone for <$50/hour to do that.11:56
AdrianGkanzure: it'll increase productivity of anything you are doing11:56
AdrianGincreased energy/focus/concentration cant hurt.11:56
kanzurei don't seem to be communicating with you11:57
kanzurewhat do you think i am saying?11:57
AdrianGproduction output is not interesting.11:57
* nsh is dubious11:57
AdrianGthat's a strange thing to say. everything you do is an output.11:57
kanzurei was saying, specifically, the production output of meth-heads11:57
AdrianGwe are not talking about addicts11:57
nshefficacy in one domain is generally at the expense of another11:57
kanzurei have never heard of a meth-head making a better drug11:57
AdrianGnsh: stimulants are overdrive drugs11:58
kanzureand i have never heard of a heroin experience leading to a better drug11:58
AdrianGyou pay for it later.11:58
AdrianGkanzure: let me guess, LSD led to something else?11:58
kanzurewhat?11:58
nmz787in shulgins cas11:58
nmz787e11:58
AdrianGwhat other drugs lead to better drugs?11:58
nmz787I generally revere psychedelics11:58
nmz787but they aren't for everyyday11:58
kanzureAdrianG: my point is that so far there hasn't been anything that reliably leads to better systematic search of nootropics11:58
AdrianGyou can take them daily anywya, its impossible11:59
nshAdrianG, have you tried playing buckaroo after 12 cups of coffee?11:59
AdrianGkanzure: that has no bearing on their effectivness11:59
nmz787sure you can11:59
AdrianGyou expect a breakthrough in a pill11:59
kanzurea LSD trip might lead to some strange concept by accidet, but that's not a nootropic effect11:59
kanzurethat's a psychedelic effect11:59
AdrianGnsh: ofc not, i dont drink coffee11:59
nmz787the dose doesn't have to be tripping-level11:59
AdrianGnmz787: tolerance11:59
nmz787sub-active doses improve things in a less perceptible manner, such that you aren't going crazy with colors and can't talk to people12:00
AdrianGtryptamine/phenethylamines build up tolerance really quick12:00
kanzurei strongly disagree with the premise that tripping and randomly disrupting the brain is the only way to design new drugs12:00
nmz787so dose heroin and meth12:00
nmz787does*12:00
AdrianGnmz787: amphetamines maintain their concentrating/focusing effect12:00
nmz787kanzure: I'm not advocating that12:00
nshkanzure, you can find bugs by analysis of source code, you can also find bugs by fuzzing12:00
kanzurenmz787: AdrianG is.12:00
rdbAdrianG, they also build off tolerance really quick12:00
AdrianGeuphoria/mood boost will go away12:00
nshif people are willing to do that to themselves, i won't try to talk them out of it12:00
AdrianGrdb: concentration stays, only mood elevation goes away12:00
kanzurensh: there are millions of people "fuzzing" their brain, and the results aren't that interesting to me so far12:01
kanzurensh: so, that argument doesn't make sense to me.12:01
* nsh shrugs12:01
rdbAdrianG, I mean tryptamines and serotoninergic psychedelics build off tolerance quickly12:01
kanzurensh: specifically we are talking about nootropics12:01
AdrianGrdb: yes i am well aware thx cpt obvious12:01
nshright12:01
nmz787AdrianG: I took amphetamines prescribed for many years and the concetration isn't maintained12:01
AdrianGnmz787: adhd?12:01
kanzurensh: randomly fuzzing your brain and breaking things has various benefits for personal development blah blah blah, but that's not the conversation12:01
nshkanzure, sure12:01
nmz787there's no rule book that says you need to take nootropics daily12:02
AdrianGITS LAW12:02
nmz787you can definitely sustain a weekly trip12:02
AdrianGlol a weekly trip12:02
nmz787I think psychedelics are more about paradigm transcending or shifting12:03
AdrianGthey just demolish your ego12:03
AdrianGso that you are not constrained by your monkey/reptile brain12:03
nmz787not in all dose levels though12:03
AdrianGits a matter of degree12:03
AdrianGego death vs ego weakening12:03
rdbnot really12:03
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kanzureman, everyone talks about that12:03
AdrianGwhat else is useful about psychedelics?12:04
kanzureand they all think they are being insightful because they have had trips12:04
AdrianGexcept unchaining you?12:04
nmz787like I said, in sub-active doses they merely do things to subconscious rather than modify your whole personality... i.e. make patterns more recognizable12:04
AdrianGnmz787: so ok your brains are loosened up slightly12:04
nmz787a good book is http://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolution/dp/055337130412:04
rdbin low doses psychedelics are very productive with barely any of the distracting effects12:04
AdrianGwhats the difference between a total unravelling12:04
AdrianGand a slight loosening up?12:04
nmz787AdrianG: worlds of difference12:05
rdbhow much experience do you have with psychedelics and different dosages?12:05
AdrianGi dont like psychedelics12:05
kanzurensh: well so much for the noots conversation.12:05
nmz787laying on the floor slobbering and making random noises vs in your business office and interacting with society12:05
AdrianGyes it quickly degenerated12:05
AdrianGnmz787: how quickly your amps lost the focus effect12:05
rdbAdrianG, how often have you used psychedelics?12:06
AdrianGrdb: i plead the 5th12:06
kanzurensh: maybe i am impossible to understand12:06
nmz787they lost their efficacy after I started high school12:06
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AdrianGnmz787: since grade 1 until high school?12:07
nshkanzure, sorry, i'm distracted12:07
nmz787so time-wise it was years, but I agree that it detracted from the rest of my brains development in social/out-of-box thinking12:07
nmz787grade 4 - 912:07
nmz787but i didn't need them12:07
nmz787i was misdiagnosed12:07
nmz787and hated them12:07
nmz787i hated the high12:08
AdrianGhow were u misdiagnosed12:08
nmz787Nootropics ( /noʊ.əˈtrɒpɨks/ noh-ə-trop-iks), also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, neuro enhancers, cognitive enhancers, and intelligence enhancers, are drugs,supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that improve mental functions such as cognition, memory, intelligence, motivation, attention, and concentration.[1][2] The word nootropic was coined in 1972[3][4] by the 12:09
nmz787from wikipedia12:09
kanzurei think the biggest problem is that all of those things are hard to measure12:09
kanzureso some people conflate concentration with euphoria12:09
nmz787for instance methadone helps my motivation way more than amphetamine12:10
kanzurethere are psychometric tests for each of those topics12:10
nmz787which is weird, and I haven't used it in years... but amphetamine stopped motivating me when I finally said fuck this drug, because while on it I couldn't be social12:10
AdrianGyeah12:10
kanzurebut i'm not 100% convined that the existing psychometric tests measure anything meaningful in the brain12:10
AdrianGits not like amphetamines increase performance in any tests12:11
AdrianGlike CPT II, trails AB, etc12:11
kanzurei think it would be more useful if we knew one exact microcircuit that we know can have two types of performance (terrible, and obviously better), and then develop a psychometric test for that12:11
AdrianGsupraphysiological doses of thyroxine are probably also nootropic to some extent12:11
kanzure"stroop test" verges on almost pathetic to me :(12:11
AdrianGdesign something better12:12
kanzurethat's what we're talking about, i thought12:12
AdrianGincreasing intelligence is hard12:12
AdrianGit'd help to know what makes us intelligent in the first place12:13
rdbintelligence is kind of an abstract concept in itself12:13
kanzure"intelligence" is a load of poop12:13
rdban umbrella term for an array of cognitive abilities12:13
nmz787i think biology may be too complex and we don't know enough to pinpoint answers today12:13
kanzurenmz787: "too complex" is hand waving12:14
nmz787random dosing works for some, and makes lazy bums in others12:14
kanzure"intelligence" and "consciousness" is also handwaving12:14
nmz787monte carlo is a bitch, but its evolution i guess12:14
kanzureit's not intelligence, it's improved performance of your hippocampal-thalamocortical tract12:14
kanzure(well, no)12:14
kanzure(also, that white matter tract doesn't exist)12:15
kanzurebut none of you called me out on that :(12:15
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* nsh delves back momentarily12:17
* nmz787 doesn't know about them cellulars12:17
AdrianGis hyperthymia a nootropic12:17
kanzureAdrianG: i don't think any of the tests you proposed are nootropically-relevant, but maybe i've missed something you can point to?12:18
* nsh blinks12:18
AdrianGkanzure: how arent they nootropically relevant12:18
AdrianGthey attempt to measure executive function.12:18
kanzurebecause "executive function" was defined by psychologists who didn't know about the brain12:19
kanzurei want something based on neuroscience12:19
AdrianGthats an arbitrary whim.12:21
nmz787so if no good metric exists, I fall back to that we're left to chance12:22
AdrianGso if u do insist on neuroscience12:22
kanzurenmz787: or you make up metrics12:22
nshthere's a law for that12:22
AdrianGlook into frontal dementia and executive function tests12:22
AdrianGi doubt anyone will argue frontal lobes are kind of important12:22
kanzureok sure, if you remove parts of the brain things will happen12:23
kanzurebut that's not useful to a nootropic designer12:23
kanzureif you deactive parts of the brain through remote stimulation, that might be somewhat helpful, although that's not a drug and outside the current discussion12:23
AdrianGis ability to direct and deploy the focal point of your attention important to nootropic designers?12:23
kanzure"attention" means what though?12:23
* AdrianG sighs12:24
kanzureplease tell me which particular brain system you're talking about hacking, and don't resort to folk psychology12:24
AdrianGthe brain is not a lego set.12:25
kanzurenobody says it was12:25
AdrianGand plasma ligands are not a precise enough method12:25
AdrianGto tweak specific systems12:25
kanzurethere are many ways to target regions, worst case scenario you get intersecting magnetic fields in the location that you want, where the accumulative field strength blah blah blah12:26
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AdrianGTMG is garbage.12:28
kanzureg?12:28
AdrianGkanzure: u should talk to salamandyr about12:28
kanzurewhat is psychophysics, again?12:29
kanzureoh, sensor research12:29
AdrianGsry TMS12:29
AdrianGtype.12:29
AdrianGtypo*12:29
kanzuremagnetic stimulation isn't the best example i could have used, that's true12:29
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nmz787I think life productivity is relative12:33
AdrianGno shit12:33
kanzurei think the "design a better nootropic" test is somewhat relevant12:34
nmz787some people love making art, and its way productive to them... others love making nanostructures, and making a fuckton of chips is productive to them12:34
AdrianGyeah, good luck integrating a super-computer into your brain12:34
kanzurebesides, what's the point of the transhumanist takeoff if it isn't a takeoff12:34
nmz787either of the two could say the other is missing out on life12:34
kanzureAdrianG: supercomputers-in-a-human-skull aren't step one or necessarily anywhere in your future12:34
AdrianGnmz787: thats the stupidest thing ive heard today12:34
AdrianGobv productivity would be measured on a standard test12:35
AdrianGi.e. your performance.12:35
nmz787AdrianG: A lot of people think I say stupid things, but its relavant to me12:35
kanzurenmz787: it's not whether or not other people think you are happy12:35
AdrianGanything that boosts cerebral metabolism is going to be nootropical12:35
AdrianGor enhances energy utilization12:35
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kanzureAdrianG: not true; just because you consume energy doesn't mean you're doing anything12:35
AdrianGkanzure: the brain has a limited supply of glucose.12:35
AdrianGunderstand? limited.12:35
kanzurenmz787: "making art" is cool and all, but can you scale that up a million times? a billion times?12:35
nmz787right but Richard Feynamn sucked at drawing compared to Jirary Zorthian, and ZOrthian sucked at physics/science (like, totally, he always changed the subject)12:35
nmz787but they were both great in their own fields12:36
* nmz787 lived at the Zorthian ranch years ago12:36
AdrianGlol wow nmz12:36
kanzurenmz787: most artists seem content to limitations on their artistic creation, so i don't think that's a relevant argument against performance enhancement12:36
nmz787kanzure: I imagine there are millions or billions of artists living now12:36
kanzureAdrianG: if you look at the studies you will see a decrease in metabolism for increased performance (at least in some scenarios)12:37
AdrianGwat12:37
kanzurenmz787: i don't think you should be concerned with what other people think about you12:37
kanzurenmz787: if you're not interested in personal technological enhancement, it's not a crime12:38
nmz787kanzure: yeah I'm not really, but I'm trying to get my point across and it seems that AdrianG doesn't see eye to eye12:38
kanzurewell, i should say s/enhancement/ability-to-create-more-technology12:38
nmz787kanzure: i'm interested in personal tech enhancment12:38
nmz787!12:38
nmz787kanzure: that's why I want a DNA synthesizer! to create enzymes to make drugs!12:39
nmz787to test on some prototype organism to see if they work12:39
nmz787rather than myself12:39
AdrianGyou could implant a meth enzyme in yo brainz :o12:39
nmz787because as I said, testing on yourself can lead to addiction/toxic problems12:40
kanzurenmz787: i was making comments related to your "live and let live" "performance measurement" comment, sorry if that wasn't clear.12:40
nmz787kanzure: well retrospect is what I was getting at there12:41
nmz787kanzure: i.e. if we don't have a good metric /now/, we can only look at a dead person's life history to see if they were productive12:42
kanzurehuh?12:42
nmz787well Shulgin says he started with mescaline... whether that got him interested as a chemist to pursue making more psychedelics I'm not sure12:43
kanzurei don't want to argue for some universal entropic work measurement12:43
nmz787so what metric could we have used on the day before he took mescaline to see if mescaline would have benefitted him positively or negatively12:43
nmz787if he wouldn't have taken that, would he have never delved into making more psychedlics, or would he made even better more kickass nootropic-like chems12:44
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nmz787entropic?12:44
kanzureyes, entropy is one way of measuring work production12:45
kanzurei specifically don't want to argue for some universal work metric12:45
nmz787i was mentioning him because of your "design a better nootropic" test12:45
nmz787I would argue he did "design a better nootropic", in fact two books full of them12:46
nmz787or at least some of them are good12:46
kanzurehe seems to be the type of person that would have done that anyway, and not because of any particular drug12:46
kanzurethere are many people who write many volumes of books about drugs they have synthesized12:46
nmz787he's the only one I know of12:47
kanzurewhat about whitesides, karplus, corey, heeger, gratzel, huber, langer, schleyer, wutrich, bax, bard, lehn, schreiber, ...12:48
nmz787but you saying he seems to be the type of person to do that anyway doesn't help us ge to a metric12:48
kanzurethese are all individuals who have written mountains of literature about synthesis (some percent of which they have synthesized)12:48
nmz787whitesides made drugs?12:48
kanzureno, i'm just talking about people who write lots of books about chemicals12:48
nmz787i don't recognize the other names12:48
kanzureindependent of drug ingestion12:48
kanzurei'm saying that writing volumes of books about chemicals is not a trait bestowed by some nootropic effect12:49
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nmz787right, but I'm saying shulgin did attempt and may have succeeded to "design a better nootropic"12:50
nmz787that was practically his mission statement12:50
kanzurei just remember it getting him high12:50
kanzurei haven't read his books in a long time12:50
kanzurea very long time12:50
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kanzuredamn, someone should do cclive/youtube-dl for mediafire and all those other terrible sites13:38
kanzurei guess that has to be me13:38
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kanzurehuh, mediafire takes surprisingly little precautions from multiple ip addresses using the same exact authentication tokens13:56
kanzureso what's the point of these "wait to download the file" things if i can just bypass that completely by distributing wget scripts13:56
nmz787how long is the token good for though13:57
kanzurenmz787: let's try it.. one sec13:58
kanzurenmz787: curl http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/download-android-malware-from-mediafire.sh | bash14:00
kanzureoh uh,14:01
kanzurewell, you should probably redirect the output to some file like malware.dat14:01
kanzureso .. curl http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/download-android-malware-from-mediafire.sh | bash > malware.dat14:01
nmz787http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/16/hacker-opens-high-security-handcuffs-with-3d-printed-and-laser-cut-keys/14:06
nmz787he says he wont release CAD for two of the keys, but the article has an image of the key... so combined with that software for using images to reproduce keys... he kind of released it14:06
nmz787downloading here14:07
kanzurecongratulations you are now the proud owner of 1.5 GB of android malware, trojans and viruses14:07
kanzurethere's also this (165 MB, but included in that): wget --user-agent="blah" "http://www.mediafire.com/file/1ch8uzgd9evcawb/Android-Malware_SortedTYPE-MD5.zip"14:09
* nmz787 cancelled that download :P14:09
kanzureooh CarrierIQ-android-blackberry.zip14:09
kanzurehttp://www.malgenomeproject.org/14:11
kanzure"In this project, we focus on the Android platform and aim to systematize or characterize existing Android malware. Particularly, with more than one year effort, we have managed to collect more than 1,200 malware samples that cover the majority of existing Android malware families, ranging from their debut in August 2010 to recent ones in October 2011."14:11
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kanzure"Medre.A  is a an AutoCAD worm, written in AutoLISP and is a very unusual piece of malware. It was14:21
kanzureACAD/Medre.A – 10000′s of AutoCAD files leaked in suspected industrial espionage and the corresponding whitepaper ACAD/Medre.A and ESET technical analysis is here ACAD/Medre.A Technical Analysis"14:21
kanzurehttp://blog.eset.com/2012/06/21/acadmedre-10000s-of-autocad-files-leaked-in-suspected-industrial-espionage14:21
kanzurehttp://blog.eset.com/2012/06/21/acadmedre-a-technical-analysis-214:21
kanzure"ESET reported Peru and neighboring countries as the target but I noticed that one of the samples' (MD5 25c7e10bb537b4265f6144f2cd7f6d95) original name is 未命名1 ( Unnamed 1), so I wonder if some targets/sources were Chinese speaking."14:21
kanzurehttp://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2012/06/medrea-autocad-worm-samples.html#more14:22
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nmz787David House Grand Jury Notes http://pastebin.com/q0hTkwFh14:35
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nmz787"I notice you are taking notes. Attempting to create your own transcript is a violation of rule 6(e) of this grand jury."14:38
kanzureoh noes14:38
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kanzurecpopell: have you considered using an actual irc client for once15:42
kanzurelike, i'd expect you'd be the type of person who would like mibbit15:42
cpopellBut I like virc and it doesn't work on win7 >_>15:42
kanzureyou keep logging in from the freenode thing15:43
cpopellyeah15:43
cpopellshrug15:43
kanzure"You chose to format sda1 to ext3. All data in that partition will LOSE."16:05
kanzurecfdisk has weird grammar16:06
Sanquiit's to make you read it twice16:10
kanzurewow, android-x86 runs much more smoothly than the other emulated junk16:12
AdrianGany android x86 devices16:12
AdrianG?16:14
kanzureyes they've been out for a few years16:15
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AdrianGare there any virtualbox VMs you can download with android x86 on it?17:12
kanzurei'm playing with qemu and android-x86-4.0-RC2-eeepc.iso17:12
AdrianGic17:25
kanzurehrm the "Behavior Genetics Association" site is supposed to have a mailman installation, anyone have the link?17:57
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kanzurehmmm i am getting recruiting emails out the gazoo today18:04
kanzurebox.net, airbnb, rockmelt (uughhh) all within 30 minutes18:04
kanzure"The 1,000 Genomes Project now at 130 TB and growing"18:10
kanzure"The Human Microbiome Project now at 10 TB and growing"18:11
kanzure"NASA's Solar Observatory:           1.6 TB per day"18:11
kanzure"CERN's LHD:                                 60 TB per day"18:11
kanzure"Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: 140 TB per day"18:11
kanzure"Square Kilometer Array:                 480 PB per day"18:11
gnushananoengineer.git: 2237b68 add chroot instructions to README.md18:36
kanzuregnusha: poke18:39
kanzurei guess nanoengineer.git is missing the postreceive hook18:39
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kanzurehttps://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer/commit/2237b682db2b0c55be81eee747a588b2e073bf0b18:39
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kanzureah he's just slow.18:40
kanzurei guess that might be ikiwiki's fault or something18:40
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kanzureoh look it's perry https://github.com/pmetzger18:44
kanzurehe wants to start a facebook group, but so far his only content is me -_-18:45
kanzurehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/359005944168966/18:45
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