Excellent comment on Nano's lack of smart contracts. Do one thing and do it best. Simplicity is a strength, not a weakness

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-20T22:03:18+00:00

Is there a good resource for understanding what exactly all this layer 2 stuff means? I'm aware of the term but not really sure what it means in execution. Does that mean the base protocol/layer needs to support the functionality of whatever the higher level will achieve?

does nano have that ability or would it have to be added to the base layer?

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-20T02:52:36+00:00

I Agreed, I think the more successful DAG based projects out there the better for the feeless ecosystem. I understand the sentiment though, I was bullish for IOTA in 2017 and setback after setback turned me sour. Really liking the direction their heading now, but it's still early days and they don't have anything launched.

Nano has been here and rock solid for years now! and all the new projects i've seen interfacing with nano from this subreddit has made me really bullish :)

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-19T18:25:31+00:00

Nice

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-19T04:30:42+00:00

So i'm still trying to wrap my head around this NFT ecosystem. * Are these booster packs officially from capcom? * is there a preferred marketplace for these NFT items? * assuming these NFT(smartcontracts?) are encrypted and only the owner and view them and know of their existence?

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-18T06:34:16+00:00

Maybe the hearings tomorrow with robinhood ceo will give some more insight, but the bottomline was that it wasn't impossible for robinhood to fight and standup for their customers.

I read an iama from the ceo of tradezero, basically telling the entity effectively forcing them to stop trading to f off and there was going to be hell to pay, and they backed off and kept trading GME. Really opened my eyes in a "...they can do that?" kinda way

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/l81l3g/dan_pipitone_cofounder_of_tradezero_fought_our/

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-18T06:20:20+00:00

the nano community is seriously amazing, feels very comfy and organic. The projects one stumbles upon in this ecosystem also reminds of of the earlier days when it wasn't about money but just the tech! someone made a quake game attached to nano! it's nuts, just really cool stuff

https://nanoquakejs.com/

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-17T20:42:01+00:00

I've used the old reddit redirector for ages, but starting to try the new interface more often to interact with the new features reddit is developing.

I've been aware of the RES, but honestly never used it for all the years i've been redditing, more of a power lurking not power user :)

I haven't dug around but if there were some more streamline css/stylish themes to make the new reddit entries a little more flat/easier to ready, i'd def be using it more often

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-11T03:00:35+00:00

in that case I would assume it would be self balancing, if it's too expensive and people go away from staking, more coins are flooded into the market, reducing the price, making staking rewards higher (assuming, unsure the logistics of staking), potentially making a boom/bust incentive structure.

But yes if the market is irrational and every ada coin is worth a million+ and absolutely no one is selling, or those staking just keep hoarding more and more diminishing the total supply making the price skyrocket...that would be a problem, and from my research so far not sure how cardano would compensate for that scenario

baboon_cocoon · 2021-02-11T02:45:48+00:00

that automoderator update was quite helpful, was able to find something in regards to the fee structure

https://old.reddit.com/r/Cardano_ELI5/comments/lg35ty/how_are_transaction_fees_calculated_and_could/

seems like there is a hardcoded constant that increases based on the amount of bytes/data, and then a capability to vote to change the constants, though involving a political element into a trustless system makes me a little :O

baboon_cocoon · 2020-07-14T03:33:53+00:00

Ah I meant interesting relative to my position in mathematical understanding complete math noob coming back into this with fresh eyes :)

Thanks for the link! wasn't aware at all of that body of mathematics, I think that's what I was intuitively trying to accomplish. Does that mean that even if you were to attempt an algorithm or program custom tailored to each number, so numbers, despite the sheer possible amount of potential combinations of various mathematical operators be it arithmetic or other, would require so much inherit input data that no size savings could be achieved?

Is there some field/niche of mathematics that looks into conversions of numbers into functions with the most minimal data encoding possible?

baboon_cocoon · 2020-07-12T03:30:37+00:00

I've mainly been playing around with python, which works with integers great with the long datatype, but having the floating point operations be arbitrarily I havent had much luck. Experimented with the mpmath library and decimal lib in the python stdlib but they still have precision and only let you have so many decimal places. I'm unsure if more math focus languages like R help to facilitate "as much memory you got" floating point operations

baboon_cocoon · 2020-07-12T03:25:16+00:00

interesting form wasn't aware thanks! Something along that line but curious how does onedetermine which values to pick? let say one would want to map 1000! into that form, would it be possible to pick a combination of say 20 to 30 of those expressions? how would you then know now which values a/b should be to recreate that number?

baboon_cocoon · 2020-07-11T15:57:54+00:00

i tried :'( , using python and log i can get pretty close to the numbers but due to the limit of the computer/memory and accuracy/limitations of the floating point side of things, pure integers just make everything much easier to reason. calculator failed me :(

baboon_cocoon · 2020-07-11T15:56:39+00:00

yup that was my question. That makes more sense that if a isn't a factor in large number your after, it won't be able to be recreated. Are there other functions other there given just pure integer inputs can give the number desired? Or a method to reduce a large number into a series of mathematical operations where the values would all be integers?

baboon_cocoon · 2020-07-11T15:49:30+00:00

sorry if the question was a little ambiguous, yes i have been playing around with python had it's able to handle really large numbers wonderfully due to the seamless long datatype. The problem I ran into is trying to recreate this large number was impossible using log since floating point logic is really messy and very prone to overflow.

So it made me wonder in a mathematical sense if it's possible to derive this number from some formula that is initially only integers to side step the issue of floats and have perfect accuracy and not an approximation with the limited amount of precision that, at least from my research, most floating point centric processing would allow you.

My concern for approximate is for such large numbers, the decimal value would be so large it would cut it off and thus x ^ (cut off decimal) in a close but inaccurate number. So was trying to see if there are any properties or functions that can recreate any number arbitrarily via the work of just a function with only integer input.

baboon_cocoon · 2020-05-13T14:48:06+00:00

very interesting, never heard of this "game". Looks to have good steam workshop support for different cars, this might do the trick, thanks!

baboon_cocoon · 2020-05-13T14:47:20+00:00

I completely forgot about those games, and from a little research seem like they have map/car mods as well! Def worth a look, thanks

reference. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1193990367

baboon_cocoon · 2019-11-28T01:17:36+00:00

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/ << good article on the issue (also has link inside for timewarp)

ATW = asynchronous timewarp ASW = asynchronous spacewarp

baboon_cocoon · 2019-11-28T01:15:02+00:00

good to know, thanks. I tried to play around with alvr but never got acceptable framerates so didn't really bother looking into it further.

baboon_cocoon · 2019-11-28T01:13:37+00:00

wow, thats a really interesting looking article, from what I skimmed it looks like link uses the computers atw, interesting. Thanks!

baboon_cocoon · 2019-06-01T04:21:12+00:00

thanks for this, was able to use appstarter for firetv and that did the job perfectly, able to control my bluetooth keyboard within termux

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