Miscellaneous things on my mind today

It occurs to me two fic geeks might find reading through the TVTropes pages for their favorite pieces of fiction a romantic way to spend an afternoon.

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Pondering a message passing communication system tuned for bulk data (parcel) transfer. Use an addressing system like email's: To:username@example.com

Sender, relay and recipient nodes operate on a load-sharing basis similar to BitTorrent. Where with email, a sender has a single SMTP target, this system might have multiple such targets, each of which serve as feeders for the destination recipient(s). Relaying nodes may cease feeding once either all recipients' nodes have full copies of the parcel, or once a TTL metric has been met.

Sender-signing should be explicitly supported, both as a means of ham/spam separation and as a means of authentication/accounting where necessary.

Parcel bodies should be compressed and encrypted by default.

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Just got the geek necessities
The simple geek necessities
Don't worry 'bout your food or your hygiene...

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If you're standing on Four Corners, and you do something that's a crime under each state's law, which state's prosecution takes priority?

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I don't think backprop is relevant to the HMM->ANN mapping, because ANN construction is done as a component of its training, and weight adjustments are done incrementally as each node gains experience, by the node itself. No final "result fitness" observation is done, because the from-map ANN inherently evolves the same way the HMM would.

Actually, looking at it further, what I have in mind could be considered a variation of a "cascading neural network", except the weights aren't fixed on node creation. Also, I don't see reference to any types of networks that allow for deconstruction of nodes.

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I like this way of posting my thoughts; it keeps me from being the uber-spammer on the social networks I'm in. Plus, it's like a serialization of free association in a palatable form.

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Hm. German. shadenfrau. Heh.

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Need to start carrying my 3e/PF books around. Or PDFs thereof.

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Barcamp presentation ideas: 1) Rosetta Code and programming chrestomathy. 2) Wikis and more effective cross-referencing.

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I once had a conversation with a guy I think might have been high, where we thoroughly enjoyed a conversation that didn't keep a single context and topic for longer than three sentences.

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:wq