"I have returned"

I've been having this allergic reaction, itchy all over, and I had the brilliant idea of taking a bath... I used this very nice oatmeal soap... Man did I kick an anthill by doing that. There's this other little problem of having had a stroke, and lost feeling on my left side. Well, not all feeling - towards the end of the day, like now, my left side gets ice cold. Well, that thing with the cold combined with the bath - it was glorious at first, the hot water feeding warmth back into my left side, but then I got really weak and I suddenly just knew I had to get out of that bath, and then dizziness, and I've basically just been laying here while falling through space for an hour. I don't think I'll be repeating this experiment anytime soon.

🤔 the ultimate decentralization would actually be the ability to centralize and decentralize as needed, with zero friction. Purely theoretically speaking, of course.

Is that Iran war still going on? I never did figure out where the "international waters" were that we rushed off to rescue. Well anyways... Look! A Chinese spy balloon!

Okay... Final grade for chemistry is in - got an A. Now a few weeks of chillax

My 2 sats on the current thing and most past current things is just this : **_hardware wallets and hww companies shouldn't exist._** Thar. I kvetched my opinion out into the void.

I just discovered a local business branding itself as "a gym for makers" - they gots 3d printers, CNC machines, more stuff, classes... I like.

🤔 "entropy" 🤔🤔🤔 idea... A ratio to determine whether you have enough entropy for your pain tolerance. So here's my first draft at such a ratio. Adjust or rejig as needed. Entropy Ratio = seed entropy / (pain threshold * btc amount) If the ratio is >1, you're good. If <1, you're pwned and haven't found out yet. I assume seeds can have a range of entropy between 128 and 512 (if this isn't right, you can adjust - I'm not bothering with perfection for this). Also assumed is that pain thresholds are different for everyone. Imagine 4 pain thresholds. These are arbitrary. "Not too painful to lose" -- 128 bits "Painful" -- 256 bits "Very painful" -- 384 bits "Might die" -- 512 bits ^ according to the pain you would feel if you lost the amount secured by that seed. ##Example :## Jane has 2 btc in a 12 word seed with no passphrase, so 128 bits. If she lost it, she'd lose everything, so that's maximum pain threshold. 128/(512*2) = .125, so she needs to either send it all to a seed with over 1024 bits of entropy (is this even possible?) or split her stack among enough seeds that the loss of any one of them doesn't hurt too much. One solution : She might split her stack in four equal parts and have each new seed be 12 words, so then each stack is 128/(.5*128)=2, so then she's good. {assuming her pain thresholds scale linearly - if 2 == "might die," then .5 == "not too painful"} Another solution : she could split it in 2, and have each stack secured by a 24 word seed with a passphrase. (256+passphrase entropy)/(1*384), then solve for the required minimum entropy for the passphrase, and that passphrase has to have more than 128 bits of entropy. 128 bits of genuine randomness is 20 characters of random characters, meaning not a word she thinks up. That setup could also work for her, for her subjective pain threshold. This is just a way to evaluate what you've set up. Prospectively, and with fluctuating prices, its probably hard to plan sufficient entropy for your comfort level. Also, although I set 128 bits as minimum, 128 bits IS secure - that ain't getting cracked in your lifetime, as long as it actually is random - that's the catch, true randomness. But if you feel better with more universes of math between you and bad guys, this framework might help you assess whether an upgrade is in order. ☕

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🤔 I thought that "hubris -> nemesis" thing was going to look like something else... But the current thing fits the bill, too. Maybe that's the thing.

Research proposal written... Sending it now... If she likes it, I'm creating a direct line from undergrad-idk-anything-ness to grad-level research specifically useful for both seasteading and longevity medicine. Strange combo, but this'll go both ways. If she likes it...

Ah finally, the weekend... At last... 3 tests in one class this week! I shall vegitate.

Breaking Bad - the way Walt starts blabbering when he's afraid to die is really annoying. Jesse doesn't blabber. Jesse may be kinda dumb, but I like him more.