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by graphene 6y ago
Can't tell if sarcasm...? What I mean is that the globe should rotate towards the East, not towards the West. This is of course assuming a stationary camera!
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by graphene 6y ago
on that note, are you aware that the globe on stripe.com is rotating in the wrong direction?
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by graphene 7y ago
So cool to see you guys go from strength to strength since the old days in our EF cohort! Onwards and upwards!
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by graphene 7y ago
From the article: Where does the money go? The penalty is divided up between the other European data authorities, while the money that comes to the ICO goes directly to the Treasury. So it seems most of it will go to o
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by graphene 8y ago
That's really cool! I checked Rigetti's github but there seem to be no open source Julia projects there (although, somewhat surprisingly, lots of Common Lisp!). Are you free to say what Julia is being used for at Rigetti (and Inte
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by graphene 9y ago
FWIW, it's exactly what I've heard when talking to Uber drivers in London. One guy used to work as a minicab driver; he prefers Uber because he can choose his hours, doesn't get cut out of lucrative jobs to the benefit of the
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by graphene 9y ago
It may have been the "literally scared for our lives" part.
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by graphene 9y ago
There's deeplearningbook.org, which starts with the basic maths and then goes into considerable detail on cutting edge work.
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by graphene 9y ago
(EU national in London) Not at all. I think the doomsday threats are overblown and the negotiating parties will reach a mutually beneficial deal at the 11th hour. Much more concerned about the possibility of the current Labour party gaining
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by graphene 9y ago
I do something similar, here's my Makefile -- I have scripts that build figures in a separate directory, /figures. I'm sure it could be terser, but it does the job for me. texfiles = acronyms.tex analytical_mecs_procedu
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by graphene 9y ago
Honest question, how is this different from what you can do in e.g. python? The python interpreter supports reloading of modules and evaluation of expressions, is there functionality that CL has above and beyond this that makes it more powe
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by graphene 9y ago
Isn't it true though that there would be an O(n^2)-type difficulty in adding extra qubits, since they all need to interact? Or is that an oversimplified view?
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by graphene 9y ago
Yes, according to the first law of Thermodynamics, energy is conserved; regardless of whether there is computation being done, 100W of electric power will result in 100W of heat being dissipated. About heating with computers, There is a Dut
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by graphene 10y ago
They trained on a computer model of the optical circuit, and only did the feed-forward step on the real thing. The rationale for that is that real-life models spend much more time (and energy) in inference mode, so that is the step you&#x27
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by graphene 10y ago
Well, yes and no. You are absolutely right that a complete implementation of TeX would be difficult, but you could read a subset of the language that is big enough to be useful, including simple macro definitions and commonly used commands,
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by graphene 10y ago
Not entirely what you're describing, but pandoc goes a long way towards being a sort of LLVM for text documents. In order to do all the format conversions, it transforms inputs into a tree-based internal representation, and then transl
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by graphene 11y ago
yes, it would be really helpful to get some examples of the counterproductive advice.
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by graphene 11y ago
The counterargument is that as more and more industries start to do their engineering at the nanoscale (whether coming from above, as in materials and electronics, or from below as in biochemistry and pharmaceuticals), the physics of their
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by graphene 11y ago
There is the fact that proteins are constrained to function as part of organisms that are capable of self-replication. This constraint means that proteins (mostly) are not very stable wrt oxidisation and UV degradation, and only work proper
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by graphene 11y ago
I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but a common application for government-owned supercomputers is simulating the degredation of nuclear warheads. The degradation of the fissile material as well as its surroundings
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by graphene 11y ago
You could compare raw FLOPS (Floating point operations per second) but that would only tell part of the story. These supercomputers are highly engineered for low network latency between nodes, which is necessary for many scientific workload
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by graphene 11y ago
Hi Christian, great to have you replying directly like this; I hope my criticism came across as constructive, since I'm super excited about and impressed with this work, as someone also chasing the dream of molecular nanotechnology. Re
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by graphene 11y ago
Super interesting. If you read the Feynman speech that he references at the beginning, he actually mentions that as you scale machines down, things like mechanical rigidity will degrade and you will need to change your design rules accordin
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by graphene 11y ago
They fund individuals for a fixed, three month period, during which you are free to work on whatever and with whomever you want. After three months, they invest £10000 (in exchange for 8% equity) in all teams that are settled on an idea and
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by graphene 11y ago
It's completely the latter. (disclaimer: also in the current cohort)
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by graphene 11y ago
On your second point, no, a 1000W heater will emit the same amount of heat (neglecting visible light losses, which, as other commenters point out, will be converted into heat later on) as a 1000W computer. This is the first law of thermodyn
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by graphene 11y ago
Maybe change the 'Net metering' rules to buy the solar power from customers at a lower price, and let the supply-demand work itself out. It won't be that simple, since even this (allowing customers to contribute power back
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by graphene 11y ago
Keep in mind that converting solar energy to chemical energy (what plants do, and what these researchers have done) is a much harder problem than converting solar energy to electrical energy directly. Also, the main result of this work seem
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by graphene 12y ago
Thanks for your comment. As I said, it's understandable for your company to keep its software proprietary, after all Google for example, while a supporter of and contributor to open source, does not open source critical components of i
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by graphene 12y ago
Do you do visa sponsorship? (long shot I know)

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