Do you think you could work towards ActivityPub integration so it would be able to talk to PeerTube instances? IMO diversity is strength but cooperation is a factor in success. Hope this project goes well and is fun 😁

So what is the difference between this and PeerTube?

Tbf I was in grade school in 2003 so it’s a bit much to expect me to have been on the “abolish the DHS” train for that long 😆

But then it wouldn’t be . It would be something else. And would have to go the way of the dinosaur for that to happen.

We can’t really agree to disagree on wishful thinking vs centuries of materialist analysis that has been historically proven time and time again, sorry.

No we actually can agree to disagree, because maybe I have reached my conclusions through a materialist but distinct analysis. Reasonable minds can differ on most things. Give it a shot!

bonds and stocks which would result in instant wipe out of capital on paper

Good. It wasn’t real anyways, so we shouldn’t be playing along like it is.

collapse of existing factory supply chains

Does collapse of necessarily mean collapse of the supply chains? I’m skeptical that workers will stop working in absence of the boot; if anything, workers will be more productive.

As long as “leadership” doesn’t mean a vanguard, then I really don’t have any problems with the second paragraph, and frankly it is a more precise version of what I want to see.

If there’s actual class consciousness in a country, collapse isn’t necessary at all.

The problem is that the military and cops are not proletarians and never will align with our interests. So even if the proletariat fully achieved class consciousness, we would have to fight the military and the cops at a bare minimum. I.e., the government and their forces would need to collapse.

If there isn’t, collapse wouldn’t bring anything other than suffering and shift back towards status quo.

It would take and its evils off the world stage, saving millions of lives, albeit not mine. Obviously I want collapse with class consciousness, but I’m not gonna pretend like it wouldn’t be beneficial for everyone else if disappeared overnight, because it would be.

Yeah but those few dozen people are more important than everyone else /s

I’m with you on the first paragraph, hence why downfall of the US is necessary but insufficient for communism.

In fact, a collapse of such a large hegemony would probably bolster global capital given how it’d take out a ton of accumulated capital

Yeah if got nuked into the stone age or otherwise completely obliterated all at once, but if it fell to consistent communists or socialists, the accumulated capital would be expropriated and given back to the people, right?

solving overproduction (main capitalist contradiction)

I don’t think that is the only country causing overproduction.

This would legitimize rule of capital further since the times are good.

Which is why our comrades outside of need to prepare for our downfall and learn the lessons of our genocidal history, namely to never settle for what the capitalists offer you.

But we can honestly agree to disagree on the details of the future. My main goal is to demonstrate that there is an anti- position that isn’t just “Middle class 14 year old leftists and self-hating third worldists try not to jerk off at the thought of proles in the west dying”. Like is the flag of the people who want to put me and my family and all my friends and all my comrades in camps. Of course I’m rooting for its downfall!

Yup, once the only bad country in existence (US) is out of the picture, every other country that currently exist, who definitely don’t brutalize proles and certainly don’t have any interest in imperialism will turn communist and end centuries of suffering for all…

I think you’re yelling at someone else? Maybe OP? I’m not pro-{any country}, but I am an anarchist and is absolutely my biggest op right now.

Collapses too are notoriously peaceful and civil and certainly don’t result in millions of deaths until another bourgeois hitler takes power

The status quo is more dangerous than collapse, full stop. Whatever millions of deaths the collapse of will cause in the short term, capitalism as it currently exists will cause orders of magnitude more in the longer term (eventually all of us!) and more than collapse even in the short term, but just in ways that are designed to be hard to notice.

Collapse of ≠ deaths of proles in

If anything, the death of the project will save millions of proletarian lives, including proles living within .

Check your university’s policies. Unless you can justify it as related to your education, you probably won’t be allowed to do it if they notice it.

Edit: I thought you meant running your self-hosted services on the university’s servers.

No. It’s piracy, and piracy is based. 🏴‍☠️

Wait really? I demand the tight shits!

Okay here are the 🫘:

Wavelets:

So the best way to begin explaining wavelets is through analogy to music. (I’m cheating a bit since this explanation is alluded to in the article 😆)

It is a nontrivial practical fact that you can express any reasonable sound as a sum of sine waves. Yes, by combining enough sine waves (which individually “move” for all time) in just the right weights, you can come up with “any” sound you want (edit: including sounds that “start” and “end”. Isn’t that wild?). And then, it turns out that if you give me just the weights, I can give you back the sound itself. And as a final physical fact, it turns out that we hear the weights of any given sound, averaged over some finite window of time (more on this window in a minute). Hence why we can pick out instruments from a band. And lastly, some phenomenon are easier to analyze by looking at the weights; music is an excellent example. In fact, when I mix music in my rapidly diminishing free time, I am often staring at a graph of the weights and seeing this these weights add together and make the instruments work together.

Formally, we use one of the Fourier transform frameworks. Each weight is associated to one unique sine with a given frequency. The size of the weight is called the frequency response at that frequency.

Now for many, many purposes, breaking up a signal in terms of sines is a perfectly appropriate choice. However, what you lose when you choose to look at just the weights is all timing information. (This is why I included the detail about the window in how you hear stuff. If you heard all frequencies over all time with no window, you would not be able to perceive rhythm.) The solution in music often is to simply impose a window on the signal and slide it as the play head moves.

However, we must now leave the realm of music to talk about wavelets in a domain where they are typically used. Now imagine you want to apply all your intuition about music [more accurately, theory of sound, not music theory] to seismic signals. Well… unfortunately, we really do care about the timing of these signals. So instead of ditching all the magical techniques of linear algebra and transform analysis, we can pick a new set of waves and decompose in terms of those. I.e., we use a transform “midway” between the Fourier transform and the identity transform (doing nothing, just working with the raw signal).

One way to do this is to start with a wavelet: any waveform with zero average and finite “length”. Then, you take this mother wavelet, and you create child wavelets by stretching and/or shifting the mother wavelet. Then, you break up your signals in terms of the wavelets. (I think you pick wavelets based on what you want to find. For example, if you want to find sharp changes, you can pick a Haar wavelet, which is basically a family of rectangles. And then, you can pick wavelets based on their statistics so that the variances and higher order statistics vanish.)

My favorite book on Wavelets, and one of my personal favorite books, is A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing: The Sparse Way by Mallat. It’s a bit mathematically challenging, but it’s such a fun read. One of the few books I actually own in print. And it’s one those cool fields in math where you basically just start with like pure math and end up with some incredibly practical results and algorithms.

Research:

My background is in control theory. I work on analyzing dynamical systems, specifically large-scale, complicated (typically people use the word “complex”, but I really mean complicated, because all the systems I work on evolve in real spaces) systems that evolve in time according to differential equations (e.g. electronic circuits, mechanical systems, power systems) or difference equations (e.g. sampled versions of the above). The goal of my research is to make just enough assumptions and prove it using calculus so future generations don’t have to do so much calculus…because you have to do so much calculus that not even a supercomputer can solve it.

PM me for more details since I’m not quite ready to dox myself 😆

Goddammit now I want to talk about wavelets and my research 😆

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