--- Log opened Wed Aug 31 00:00:41 2016 00:00 < gene_hacker> freecad is very much not dead 00:01 < gene_hacker> http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes_0.16 00:01 < maaku> What was the group that did Darwinian evolution of programs. 00:01 < gene_hacker> which one? 00:01 < gene_hacker> there are a bunch of groups that do that 00:02 < gene_hacker> in fact, here is an example of how to do that: http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/evolution/grammatical_evolution.html 00:04 -!- Mariu [~Jimmy98@89.41.57.33] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:17 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 00:18 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:24 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 00:28 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:38 < maaku> I am remembering a pre-AI-winter research group that did darwinean evolution of programs written in a restricted machine language competing for memory & cpu time 00:38 < maaku> google is failing me 00:39 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:4878:53d9:9f17:a4b0] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:39 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:4878:53d9:9f17:a4b0] has quit [Changing host] 00:39 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:41 < maaku> ah found it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_organism 00:59 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 01:00 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:244c:7015:9bc1:fa2b] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:00 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:244c:7015:9bc1:fa2b] has quit [Changing host] 01:00 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:15 -!- gene_hacker [~chatzilla@c-50-188-129-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 01:56 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:58 -!- PatrickRobotham [uid18270@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-hmcjopitjyokqvhl] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:13 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 03:20 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 03:21 -!- jtimon [~quassel@38.110.132.37.dynamic.jazztel.es] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:50 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:50 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has quit [Changing host] 03:50 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:00 -!- augur [~augur@c-67-160-198-240.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 04:27 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 04:29 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:29 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has quit [Changing host] 04:29 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:02 -!- Gurkenglas [Gurkenglas@dslb-094-223-128-173.094.223.pools.vodafone-ip.de] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:08 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 05:09 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:09 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has quit [Changing host] 05:09 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:22 < wrldpc1> Where do you guys source HGH? 05:22 < wrldpc1> I’m in Japan and I think regulations are rather lax here, but I’m ignorant of good reputable sources. 05:27 < __mz_o> a) wrong channel 05:27 < __mz_o> b) search the googles 05:29 < Jawmare> wrldpc1, I synthesized them from scartch 05:30 < __mz_o> thats sweet 05:36 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@122.31.0.30] has quit [Quit: wrldpc1] 05:37 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@p597030-ipngn200504kyoto.kyoto.ocn.ne.jp] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:38 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@p597030-ipngn200504kyoto.kyoto.ocn.ne.jp] has quit [Client Quit] 05:42 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 05:45 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:45 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has quit [Changing host] 05:45 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:46 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 05:46 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:50 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 05:55 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 05:55 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:16 < kanzure> how is this the wrong channel for human growth hormone? 06:18 < kanzure> maaku: there are many of those; see http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/The%20evolution%20of%20self-replicating%20computer%20organisms%20-%20A.%20N.%20Pargellis.pdf and avida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida 06:19 < kanzure> "A second major difference is that the virtual CPUs of different organisms can run at different speeds, such that one organism executes, for example, twice as many instructions in the same time interval as another organism. The speed at which a virtual CPU runs is determined by a number of factors, but most importantly, by the tasks that the organism performs: logical computations that the organisms can carry out to reap extra CPU speed ... 06:19 < kanzure> ... as bonus." 06:22 < __mz_o> it was ealrly and he was asking for sourcing 06:24 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:29 -!- oleo [~oleo@unaffiliated/oleo] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:35 < kanzure> "Testing quantised inertia in the emdrive" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03449v1.pdf 06:58 -!- arthurl [~arthurl@38.117.157.141] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:10 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 07:10 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 07:35 -!- cynsia [cyn@2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe79:d5d] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:37 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:02 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:02 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@110.141.85.214] has quit [Changing host] 08:02 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:09 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 08:24 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:29 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 08:29 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:29 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:52 -!- PatrickRobotham [uid18270@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-hmcjopitjyokqvhl] has quit [Quit: Connection closed for inactivity] 08:53 -!- cynsia [cyn@2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe79:d5d] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 09:08 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:f488:46da:188f:a039] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:08 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:f488:46da:188f:a039] has quit [Changing host] 09:08 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:12 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 09:13 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 09:16 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:23 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 09:26 -!- sandeepkr [~sandeepkr@182.75.187.110] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:26 -!- abetusk [~abe@68.175.143.22] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 09:49 -!- JayDugger [~jwdugger@108.19.186.58] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 09:53 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has quit [Quit: Away for too long: http://ibinary.com/libas] 09:56 -!- jtimon [~quassel@38.110.132.37.dynamic.jazztel.es] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 10:02 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:03 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:06 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 10:12 -!- jtimon [~quassel@38.110.132.37.dynamic.jazztel.es] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:14 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 10:22 -!- ArturSha1 [~ArturShai@185.66.252.104] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 10:33 < kanzure> forrest suggests using bladerf to do proximity-based phone identification for my meetlog/everyone-ever database thing (spoof a tower) 10:34 -!- winsen [~winsen@unaffiliated/winsen] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:37 -!- JayDugger [~jwdugger@108.19.186.58] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:49 -!- indiebio [~quassel@quassel.tumbleweed.org.za] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:52 < kanzure> "high frontier" board game http://i.imgur.com/Oj5XfO5.jpg 10:55 < kanzure> all of the cards or patent things in their tech tree have references to actual papers on that speculative tech 10:55 < kanzure> "I've found a lot of papers through this guy, everything from modern superconductor based solar sails to old 50s magnetohydrodynamic generators" 10:56 < kanzure> "you can infer things about people's existing positions in idea space, what topics and introductions need to be made in order to move it towards the ideal 10:56 < kanzure> er.. bad paste. that is unrelated. 10:56 < JayDugger> I backed that Kickstarter, kanzure. 10:57 < JayDugger> The game hasn't yet arrived, though. 10:57 < kanzure> "you can infer things about people's existing positions in idea space, what topics and introductions need to be made in order to move it towards the ideal; 20 question intros. based on the data set and their answers to their first question. don't ask about they are interested in food, that's not very helpful, but finding out they are interested in cryonics, that's very helpful. what are the information maximizing questions to ask? this ... 10:57 < kanzure> ... can be computed from the previous data." 10:59 -!- augur [~augur@2601:640:8001:4222:e170:b99:8d1f:a1c0] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:59 < kanzure> "if you know how they know them, not just a brownian motion person from the street, then the questions you would ask would be changed by the connectivity structure -- like in this office, you probably don't have to ask if they know about bitcoin" 11:09 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@pw126253000214.6.panda-world.ne.jp] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:11 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@pw126253000214.6.panda-world.ne.jp] has quit [Client Quit] 11:13 -!- gene_hacker [~chatzilla@c-50-137-45-249.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:14 < kanzure> defcon has transcripts of all their videos, apparently 11:14 < chris_99> the defcon vids aren't online yet are they? 11:19 < kanzure> don't seem to be 11:19 < kanzure> it looks like they delay release of transcripts too. wtf? 11:20 < chris_99> hmm, the slides are online though 11:21 < chris_99> weird 11:27 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:31 -!- winsen [~winsen@unaffiliated/winsen] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 11:35 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@pw126253000214.6.panda-world.ne.jp] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:51 -!- wrldpc1 [~ben@pw126253000214.6.panda-world.ne.jp] has quit [Quit: wrldpc1] 11:55 -!- winsen [~winsen@unaffiliated/winsen] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:59 -!- augur [~augur@2601:640:8001:4222:e170:b99:8d1f:a1c0] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 12:11 -!- gene_hacker [~chatzilla@c-50-137-45-249.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.92 [Firefox 48.0.2/20160823121617]] 12:18 -!- abetusk [~abe@68.175.143.22] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:23 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:24 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has quit [Max SendQ exceeded] 12:25 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:28 -!- Orpheon [~Orpheon@48.188.62.81.dynamic.wline.res.cust.swisscom.ch] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 12:46 -!- Orpheon [~Orpheon@48.188.62.81.dynamic.wline.res.cust.swisscom.ch] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:01 < kanzure> dragoncon is this weekend in atlanta 13:10 -!- CaptHindsight [~2020@unaffiliated/capthindsight] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 13:15 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:12 -!- CaptHindsight [~2020@adsl-75-57-144-54.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:12 -!- CaptHindsight [~2020@adsl-75-57-144-54.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Changing host] 14:12 -!- CaptHindsight [~2020@unaffiliated/capthindsight] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:23 < kanzure> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-donkey-kong-can-tell-us-about-how-study-brain 14:32 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:34 < docl> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW55cViXu6s 14:34 < docl> .title 14:34 < yoleaux> Should We Build a Dyson Sphere? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios - YouTube 14:36 < docl> Gets the mass requirement issue drastically wrong around 6:47 14:38 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 14:44 < docl> "Also, we need a mega structure to harvest it, with a raw material requirement close to that of all the terrestrial planets in the solar system." 14:45 < docl> Umm, no. You need a megastructure about a tenth the mass of the asteroid Pallas. 14:57 -!- Aurelius_Work [~cpopell@209.48.69.2] has quit [Quit: Aurelius_Work] 15:04 -!- Mariu [~Jimmy98@89.41.57.33] has quit [Quit: leaving] 15:10 -!- justanotheruser [~justanoth@unaffiliated/justanotheruser] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:21 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 15:39 -!- nmz787_i [~ntmccork@134.134.139.74] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:40 < nmz787_i> kanzure: space comms is a good reason for bio-based radio indeed (and, c'mon man, don't constrain yourself to just proteins) 15:41 < nmz787_i> justanotheruser: yeah use my python-brlcad-tcl library, see if you can manage something useful 15:42 < nmz787_i> justanotheruser: it should just require Python, BRLCAD (windows or linux, as long as it's on the system PATH), and meshlab or something to visualise as STL files (simply a more convenient GUI than BRLCAD provides by default) 15:42 < nmz787_i> justanotheruser: the API is definitely in-progress... but the examples I have should enable you to get going pretty quickly 15:45 < nmz787_i> genehacker: very interesting on the freecad stuff... looks pretty nice... I can't remember if there was discussion to hook it up to BRLCAD as a back-end 15:46 < nmz787_i> my concern is model computational stability, etc... which BRLCAD claims to be quite cautious and thorough in regards to (since MEMS seems to span such big dynamic range) 15:55 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:04 -!- genehacker [chatzilla@128-193-154-225.ptpg.oregonstate.edu] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:05 -!- arthurl [~arthurl@38.117.157.141] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 16:56 -!- Malvolio is now known as Guest65254 16:56 -!- Guest65254 [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Killed (wolfe.freenode.net (Nickname regained by services))] 16:56 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:05 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 17:05 < kanzure> what is your non-protein radio thing? 17:09 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 17:10 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:11 < nmz787_i> oh I was just saying not to prematurely limit your scope... like, maybe your protein needs some cofactor 17:12 < nmz787_i> maybe the protein is really just an ion pump/channel and you move charge between vessicles to elicit output, idk 17:14 -!- oleo_ [~oleo@x4e310281.dyn.telefonica.de] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:15 -!- nmz787_i [~ntmccork@134.134.139.74] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 17:18 -!- oleo [~oleo@unaffiliated/oleo] has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 17:29 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 17:30 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:32 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has quit [Excess Flood] 17:33 -!- winsen [~winsen@unaffiliated/winsen] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 17:34 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:36 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:39 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:44 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 17:46 < superkuh> I don't understand the want or need for a "bio radio". It seems absurd. 17:46 < superkuh> Might as well make a biological hydraulic press. 17:46 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:47 < superkuh> Althought that makes significantly more sense than a bio radio. 17:50 < superkuh> Especially for space where bio stuff is even more of a hassle. 17:58 -!- yashgaroth [~yashgarot@2602:306:35fa:d500:f5e0:f867:a11d:8d52] has joined ##hplusroadmap 18:29 -!- winsen [~winsen@unaffiliated/winsen] has joined ##hplusroadmap 18:42 -!- Orpheon [~Orpheon@48.188.62.81.dynamic.wline.res.cust.swisscom.ch] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 18:51 -!- jtimon [~quassel@38.110.132.37.dynamic.jazztel.es] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 18:52 < xentrac> superkuh: well, radio allows you to transmit at high bit rates at low power over long distances. maybe light can do that too. self-replication is pretty fundamentally important, and life by some definitions already has that down 19:01 < kanzure> non-biological self-replicating nanotech would probably be better if we had any of that 19:03 < kanzure> agreed re: optical stimulation, especially since that's already working. 19:07 < kanzure> hm, if the water gets frozen, that might not be so bad, cells can survive that. 19:08 < kanzure> "The diurnal cycle of water ice on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7570/full/nature14869.html 19:10 -!- winsen [~winsen@unaffiliated/winsen] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 19:17 < kanzure> also you could conceivably use a liquid medium that is not water with favorable characteristics for vacuum and such.... 19:25 -!- kenn123 [~kenn123@CPEf0f2490c77c3-CMf0f2490c77c0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] has quit [Quit: Away for too long: http://ibinary.com/libas] 19:40 -!- nmz787_i [ntmccork@nat/intel/x-cihxnaphcnavintw] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:43 < nmz787_i> xentrac: haven't heard of fiber-optic internet, re: "radio allows you to transmit at high bit rates at low power over long distances. maybe light can do that too." ? 19:45 < nmz787_i> superkuh: you might say bio-presses already exist... things like hands, lobster claws, that mantis shrimp, mushrooms/fungal-fruitbodies, plant roots 19:46 < nmz787_i> superkuh: also with theories like panspermia, bio stuff in space seems useful 19:46 < kanzure> "spores" and such are one thing; but we need self-replication in the vacuum of space. 19:46 < nmz787_i> biotech and nanotech are going to converge eventually anyway, so not sure why any of this seems odd 19:47 < nmz787_i> I have a feeling a coconut would survive depressurisation 19:48 < kanzure> free floating palm trees? 19:49 < kanzure> can't mix gases that well, without mixing equipment etc 19:50 < nmz787_i> hmm? I just mean an organ we can 'cut and paste' so to speak, that would shield vacuum nicely 19:50 < nmz787_i> a coconut is a single cell 19:50 < kanzure> still need to grow coconuts 19:51 < nmz787_i> yeah but that doesn't have to look like a tree 19:51 < nmz787_i> seems like you'd need a lobster tree 19:51 < nmz787_i> something with a silica exoskeleton or something 19:51 < kanzure> http://img13.deviantart.net/dcb2/i/2006/191/2/e/the_wonderous_lobster_tree_by_soudaiya.png 19:52 < nmz787_i> more like the inversion of that 19:52 < nmz787_i> where the lobsters are the bark and leaves 19:52 < nmz787_i> with coconuts growing 19:52 < nmz787_i> the proclaimed 'antilobster tree' 19:54 < nmz787_i> I can't find a better pic than the one you just posted, but here's a tree-shaped picnic table that is pretty sweet: http://i.imgur.com/2Jmu2RF.jpg 20:01 < superkuh> How do you even do wires with biology? 20:02 < superkuh> The antenna at least is going to have to be some long metallic conductor. 20:02 < superkuh> Kind of defeats the point. 20:21 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:21 -!- arthurl [~arthurl@c-76-117-135-15.hsd1.nj.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:21 -!- Gurkenglas [Gurkenglas@dslb-094-223-128-173.094.223.pools.vodafone-ip.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 20:27 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 20:35 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:36 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Quit: time to haxor] 20:38 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:38 < xentrac> nmz787_i: well, yes, if you can run fiber optic cables, sure. and you can do Ronja kind of stuff over larger distances. but a bio-radio might be more practical than a bio-Ronja. (Or vice versa.) 20:40 < xentrac> superkuh: you probably need something like a firing squad automaton to replace the antenna, or maybe even a local optical signal (from a bio-laser? made of GFP?) 20:41 < xentrac> also for a variety of reasons the Deep Space Network uses microwaves rather than light 20:45 -!- nmz787_i [ntmccork@nat/intel/x-cihxnaphcnavintw] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 20:59 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 21:01 -!- vikraman [~vh4x0r@gentoo/developer/vikraman] has quit [Quit: Bye!] 21:02 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@unaffiliated/malvolio] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:07 -!- arthurl [~arthurl@c-76-117-135-15.hsd1.nj.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: My Mac has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 21:14 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 21:14 -!- justan0theruser [~justanoth@unaffiliated/justanotheruser] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:14 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:15 -!- vikraman [~vh4x0r@gentoo/developer/vikraman] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:15 -!- oleo_ [~oleo@x4e310281.dyn.telefonica.de] has quit [Changing host] 21:15 -!- oleo_ [~oleo@unaffiliated/oleo] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:15 -!- oleo_ is now known as oleo 21:16 -!- justanotheruser [~justanoth@unaffiliated/justanotheruser] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 21:28 < nmz787_> sup 21:31 < nmz787_> superkuh: check out the wires in geobacter if you really want wires... but realistically molecules are just semiconductors that can move around... so it isn't too hard to stretch it to think we can scale a bio-cell up a bit or down a bit to either encapsulate a radio topology in a single cell or amongst a network of small cells or some exudate of them. 21:32 < superkuh> Wrong scale. 21:34 < superkuh> It's not just a bit. Even 8 GHz stuff is going to need many cm long good conductors that aren't suspended in resistive goo. 21:35 < superkuh> And an 8 GHz biological oscillator? Now that's far fetched. 21:35 -!- duper [~super@104.167.98.38] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:36 < superkuh> All the bio electrical signaling stuff works because it doesn't really do long distance current flow. 21:36 < superkuh> Tens of nanometer paths. 21:36 < xentrac> FDM isn't the only kind of radio :) 21:37 -!- duper` [~super@ca4.blackcatz.org] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 21:38 -!- strages [sid11297@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-mrecrxenjqidxhyw] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 21:41 -!- strages [sid11297@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-hpotfpgjmiadbopd] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:41 < xentrac> but you may not need the cells themselves to be the radio if you can get them to build one 21:42 < kanzure> btw i would expect any radio system like this to be absurdly slow beyond all patience 21:42 < kanzure> well i guess that's not fair, ion channel switching time can be fast. 21:42 -!- maaku_ [~quassel@173-228-107-141.dsl.static.fusionbroadband.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:43 < xentrac> I wrote a thing about ultraslow radio a while back: https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00303.html 21:43 < xentrac> but in a terrestrial context 21:43 -!- maaku [~quassel@173-228-107-141.dsl.static.fusionbroadband.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 21:43 < kanzure> not this kragen person again 21:45 -!- ArturSha1 [~ArturShai@185.66.253.121] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:45 < xentrac> if you were building stuff in space you might be able to use large resonating chambers instead of lumped-element circuits 21:47 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 21:49 < xentrac> this post contains the tidbit that 春秋 has a bandwidth of around one bit per day 21:50 < kanzure> er clumps of stuff is what cells do best 21:50 -!- oleo [~oleo@unaffiliated/oleo] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 21:54 -!- justanotheruser [~justanoth@unaffiliated/justanotheruser] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:58 -!- justan0theruser [~justanoth@unaffiliated/justanotheruser] has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 22:02 < nmz787_> superkuh: I don't get why you think semiconductor electronics in a poorly understood media is far-fetched... it is just poorly understood (and that is pretty rapidly changing) 22:04 < nmz787_> superkuh: bio-stuff is just nanofactories... they can poop out tree-scale objects... they've done the proof-of-concept more than enough for me 22:06 < kanzure> yes but he is asking for a demonstration of metal placement of sufficient fidelity for radio 22:10 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:a5a1:c463:5d27:6ab4] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:10 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:a5a1:c463:5d27:6ab4] has quit [Changing host] 22:10 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:13 -!- nickjohnson [sid789@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-eluyfhjltvfvtscg] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 22:13 < superkuh> I guess I'm still wondering "Why bother?" If it's because you're going to grow a radio from in-situ resources on some comet from a cell colony then, okay, but that's pretty much magic and with that magic you could grow anything. 22:14 -!- nickjohnson [sid789@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-oollvwuoidbcppyr] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:14 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 22:15 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:16 < superkuh> And geobacter wires aren't really conductors? Their wire in shape and they transfer charge but they don't transfer charge fast like a conductor with free electrons. 22:17 < superkuh> They're. 22:17 < nmz787_> this says 'metal like' http://mbio.asm.org/content/6/2/e00084-15.full 22:17 < nmz787_> but I agree you could probably grow quite a lot of magical things 22:18 < nmz787_> but the world is already full of those, so it really isn't terribly surprising to me 22:19 < nmz787_> superkuh: why bother is because electronics manufacturers want cheaper fab... they don't /like/ spending billions of dollars on a fab to get radio chips 22:20 < nmz787_> the shorter answer is: to make money or profit in another way 22:20 < kanzure> 22:19 <@gmaxwell> kanzure: some of that suffers from excessive handwave and dreaming without engineering expirence in the relevant area (something I'm often guilty of), very low bitrates at very low power suffer from decohearence. You can't accomulate 1000 seconds of CDMA data to decode your bit because the paths are not stable over those kinds of timeframes; in fact, unless all the communicating parties have pret 22:20 < kanzure> 22:19 <@gmaxwell> ty good atomic clocks, their _oscillators_ aren't stable enough over that kind of timeframe to usefully decode the signal. 22:20 < kanzure> cc xentrac http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/2016-08-31.log 22:20 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 22:21 < superkuh> re: geobacter wire conductivity, oh. Wow. That's cool. Glad to be wrong. 22:21 < nmz787_> kanzure: i never personally mentioned ultra long distances... I'd be happy if it worked in a 100ft radius max... and if I could be selective with where I threw my signal/received from 22:21 < nmz787_> i just don't want to use my mouth 22:21 < kanzure> 100 ft radius in space? 22:22 < nmz787_> space, wherever.. as long as the media if present allows signal propagation, who cares? 22:22 < kanzure> 22:22 <@gmaxwell> kanzure: fwiw, people doing low power communications is a standard ham challenge, search string: QRP. And what you find is that the lower the power the more insane the hardware and DSP becomes, not simple 'steampunk' things like the writeup suggests. :) 22:28 < nmz787_> what steampunk writeup? 22:30 < kanzure> see http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/2016-08-31.log near the bottom 22:30 < kanzure> near 21:59 22:31 < kanzure> or http://gnusha.org/logs/2016-08-31.log 22:31 < kanzure> near 21:43 22:36 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:5979:fef3:391d:772e] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:36 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@2001:8003:100e:c500:5979:fef3:391d:772e] has quit [Changing host] 22:36 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@unaffiliated/ebowden] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:36 < nmz787_> oh, I read that already 22:37 < kanzure> interwebs are a confusing thing 22:42 < nmz787_> I didn't remember seeing any references to steam or punks 22:42 < nmz787_> people's words can be a confusing thing 22:45 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 22:46 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:46 -!- yashgaroth [~yashgarot@2602:306:35fa:d500:f5e0:f867:a11d:8d52] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 22:49 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 22:50 -!- drewbot [~cinch@ec2-54-235-26-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 22:50 -!- drewbot [~cinch@ec2-54-204-223-8.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:54 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:02 -!- augur [~augur@noisebridge130.static.monkeybrains.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 23:21 -!- juul1 [~juul@juul.io] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:21 -!- juul [~juul@juul.io] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 23:21 -!- yoleaux [~yoleaux@xn--ht-1ia18f.nonceword.org] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 23:21 -!- maaku_ [~quassel@173-228-107-141.dsl.static.fusionbroadband.com] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 23:22 -!- maaku [~quassel@173-228-107-141.dsl.static.fusionbroadband.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:22 -!- justanotheruser [~justanoth@unaffiliated/justanotheruser] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 23:37 -!- abetusk [~abe@68.175.143.22] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] --- Log closed Thu Sep 01 00:00:42 2016