If it was stored on his HDD (intead of on some online service), then there is hope, even if small. First thing is pull the plug ASAP; even just booting up from the disk already comes with the risk of overwriting any data that might have survived all these years.

If it was an online service; perhaps he still got the email confirmation for the account creation somewhere?

Looks quite suspicious. Why would you create an account just to tell newbies about a site you found, and then use the same name as the site as your username?

Does it work in person? I tried to read the code from the photos but my QR reader doesn't seem to be able to figure it out...

I'm not very good at doing things all the way, and this was demanding too much of my hardware even before i could be sure it would be worth it. So i never got to the point of taking screenshots and doing other stuff people do when they're proud of what they achieved, much less of having any proof i was even on the right track. I believe i made clear on my post it looked promising but i hadn't managed to go all the way with it yet; what more do you want?

Actually, it seems the download for the previous version is still on their current servers: http://download.nutonian.com/formulize_0_98_1_setup.exe (there was a small period when they changed the name to Formulize for some reason, it's back to Eureqa now).

If you need the download for something other than Windows, let me know if you can't figure out the download link and i'll try to find it too.

Try https://web.archive.org/web/20121011005629/http://www.nutonian.com/download/

That seems to be the most recent version they captured before the change that added restrictions.

Also, from their description it seems that you don't got restrictions if you use the API in conjunction with the dedicated server instead of the GUI program, i haven't tried though. Both can be found at http://www.nutonian.com/download/ if you wanna give it a go.

Btw, if anyone wanna try doing what i was talking about, you can get Eureqa from http://www.nutonian.com/


edit: hm, looks like it became trialware for anyone that wasn't already using the older versions... :/

I once had Eureqa find a function that seemed to predict the price within about 2% accuracy, using data with 6 hours resolution; unfortunately i never tested how it would hold against new data.

I need to figure out a way to get a finer resolution set covering the whole history; and need to get a better PC to process that without having to worry about overheating the CPU and trashing the HDD with too much use of the swap file.


Obviously, i would expect the model would only be good for doing very short term predictions, and would need to be updated as new data comes in order to retain any level of accuracy; but very short term might be enough for daytrading.

Believing you'll be cured, and not going against doctors' recommendations, can increase the odds of a "miracle" happening. Modern medicine and faith that you will be cured, when put together, have been found to increase the odds of a person surviving way more than either one alone.


Also, do your best to keep both your body and mind healthy. Laugh, exercise, do puzzles, videogames, have fun with friends etc. Having a positive attitude about things, and making sure your body doesn't have to fix things other than your disease, also can help a lot.



And don't give up, even if the doctor says you're gonna die, there is still chance there will be a new discovery before you kick the bucket, and once in a while people live for many years past what the doctors expected.

That thing looks like it would be affected more by the wind than by currents; it got way more surface area above than bellow water.



I think latching all the pieces together wouldn't work well, would cause too much stress. It would work better as a flotilla with flexible paths between them. Sorta like Columbia from the Bioshock Infinite game, but with a bit less up and down bobbing between the "islands".


Not having each unit have it's own propulsion seems like a bad idea; having to evacuate a whole cityblock in the middle of the ocean because it was about to crash doesn't sound all that feasible.

Something like an array of Voith Schneider propellers under each unit might perhaps be the best idea. Obviously, the islands would have to coordinate their movement with each other, sorta like how vehicles like SPMTs do.


If i'm not mistaken, propellers like that, might even be able to produce vertical thrust; which could be used to reduce rolling and delay the sinking during an emergency.

How will that "floating city" handle big waves though? And do we even got chains strong enough to anchor that thing and survive fighting against the winds hitting such a huge surface area? What if the wind is asymmetrical, causing it to try to turn, distributing the strain over the anchors unevenly?

There is a difference between claiming to be a nation and being recognized as such.

I don't think a nation can be recognized without having a territory; not sure though.

If i'm not mistaken, international law doesn't allow for a nation to extend (or create) it's territory in the middle of the sea by artificial means. The only alternatives would be to take possession of already existing territory, or get lucky to find a fresh volcano growing out of the surface of the sea in international waters that hasn't been claimed by anyone yet.


Though in the end, international law can be a bit flexible if you got enough political, financial and/or belic(sp?) firepower.

Are we looking at the setup for a weekend bump?

We are in dire need of a resurgment(sp?) of the Usenet approach, where a bunch of different people just synchronized their message databases, where no single company had control over so many people's online social life, and anyone could get in the busyness...

Centralization is bad for the Internet, and bad for it's users.

If people wanted to DoS it, wouldn't it be easier to just send static on the frequencies involved?

Has there been any work done in undervolting miners like those?

Does anyone know of some site that provides spectrogram of the price and of the volume in many exchanges, or at least on Gox?

Is there some blog, mailing list, IRC channel or whatever, where i could go to learn about what is happening to the forum when it is down?