drkevorkian

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by drkevorkian 2y ago
> there's strong reasons to believe that energy is required to represent all information in the physical universe You simply do not need to believe this. The universe doesn't need to be "stored" somewhere. > Quantu
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by drkevorkian 2y ago
There are two points. You got the first one, which is controllability. The components are controllable and programmable. But second it's important to appreciate the difference between simulating 10^23 classical billiard balls with a co
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by drkevorkian 2y ago
No, not quite, it's about the error-per-gate. RCS has very loose requirements on the error per gate, since all they need is enough gates to build up some arbitrary entangled state (a hundred or so gates on this system). Other algorithm
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by drkevorkian 2y ago
It's different from your hourglass in that the computer is controllable. Each sampled random circuit requires choosing all of the operations that the computer will perform. You have no control over what operation the hourglass does. It
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by drkevorkian 2y ago
The ones dropped into the macerator are the lucky ones. The ones who live suffer for their short lives, until their economic utility curve crosses a threshold value and they are also slaughtered.
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
I agree with the premise that "nobody deserves to be a millionaire" (although maybe with inflation we should say deca-millionaire), but a hard cap seems like a crude tool with many potential downsides. A UBI would be a better tool
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
As much as I hate to admit it, their pushback on account sharing finally stopped me from leeching on my relatives account.
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
Habitable? There is plenty of water for it to be habitable, residential use is a drop in the bucket compared with agricultural use. Without a technological solution, we'll have to scale back agriculture, but that's not a regional
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
Not sure what you're saying here, YBCO and related materials become superconducting with liquid nitrogen temperatures
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
Yes, good point (apologies to the Lukin group). That's an interesting proposal, but it seems from a cursory read that you would need still need very many physical qubits to approach that asymptotic rate, and also you would be forced to
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, their (QuEra's) demonstration is incredibly impressive, but it seems you've been misled by inconsistent nomenclature around the phrase "logical qubit". They've demonstrated a 5/1 encodi
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by drkevorkian 3y ago
This would be a backwards incompatible change that would cause a lot of issues. For instance, you are not allowed to compare naive and non-naive datetimes, so for instance, `utcnow() > datetime(2023, 11, 19)` would work before, but break
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by drkevorkian 12y ago
Two counterpoints: 1) What you've written, where H is independent of t is reducible to just the Eigenvalue problem for H. Certainly better understood than fluid dynamics. Even with time-dependent hamiltonians we have decent tools for t
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by drkevorkian 12y ago
This is a cool demo, but I'm afraid this is the wrong pedagogical approach to understanding quantum computing. The representation of the quantum state as a bar chart is difficult to interpret and provides little intuition. The fact is,
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
for word, count in Counter(open('test.txt').read().lower().split()).most_common(): print word, count
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
> Point being, there's always some trade off. All universal income does is push the cost of lunch onto the wealthy even more Yes, that is the point of welfare. Universal income is a type of welfare. It is a form of welfare which is
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
He's getting worked up over 2%? I would expect the rates to fluctuate on the order of at least 2% due to normal traffic variations.
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
He might be referring to this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.3171v3.pdf So, if the question you want to ask is "what is some property of the solution of the (sparse) set of linear equations" rather than wanting t
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
I've always been fascinated with Von Neumann. Inventing game theory, developing the quintessential computer architecture, putting quantum mechanics on an axiomatic basis, having almost as many theorems named after him as Gauss... Few o
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
As somebody who's really feeling the squeeze now from skimping on RAM / SSD from my MBA purchase in 2011, I'm tempted to say he should have stuck with his first instinct. You can't upgrade the damn thing later, so do it
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by drkevorkian 13y ago
Demand for babies is much higher than supply. Once they're toddlers or older, that trend quickly reverses.
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by drkevorkian 14y ago
https://getmyo.com/
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by drkevorkian 14y ago
A carbon tax makes sense, but probably wouldn't impact this behavior explicitly, since the natural gas is being burned before it even reaches the market.
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by drkevorkian 14y ago
In terms of Vi(m!) emulation, emacs' evil-mode ( http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil ) is pretty damn complete. The only real issue is properly integrating it with the rest of your Emacs environment.
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by drkevorkian 14y ago
As I left it going the particles seemed to be accelerating. I think this is because the acceleration term is proportional to the distance, rather than the usual 1/(distance)^2
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by drkevorkian 17y ago
The argument goes that understanding how programming works, (not any particular tool set per se. but more the foundation necessary to learn one) is becoming the equivalent of reading and writing. 300 years ago, you could easily perform most
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by drkevorkian 17y ago
And it seems like a prime example of where a more widespread programming literacy would be beneficial. You don't need any sort of deep CS knowledge to be able to use the superior tools out there, just a foundational literacy.
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by drkevorkian 17y ago
ISP's don't have any vested interest in stopping filesharing. In fact I'm sure many of them would love to have it since its a great reason to use their service.