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by krastanov 4mo ago
It is recent and still uncommon that private universities have a grad student union. The US also has many great public universities that have had grad student unions since forever
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by krastanov 5mo ago
Who has been projecting FTL as a realistic technology ever? FTL is not possible according to the current laws of Physics, while AGI is at least not forbidden by them.
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by krastanov 5mo ago
I read OP differently. I thought they said "we should invest in non-dystopian public safety[1] to avoid dystopian populist creating a 1984 version of public safety". [1]: I imagine this includes things like mental heath help, hous
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by krastanov 5mo ago
> And that state of the art has not moved much in the last decade This is far from true. On the experimental side, gate fidelities and physical qubit numbers have increased significantly (a couple of orders of magnitude). On the theory s
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by krastanov 6mo ago
This sounds incredibly naive. Competition does not magically prevent monopolies -- once you have a dominant player they just buy or undercut the occasional competing startup.
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by krastanov 6mo ago
I am sorry, I did not mean to imply anyone else is doing something poorly. I believe glibc's (and the rest of the ecosystem of libraries that are probably more limiting) policies and principled stance are quite correct and overall &quo
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by krastanov 6mo ago
Wine's APIs are more stable than Linux's APIs, so it seems more plausible to me that Wine will become the first class target itself.
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by krastanov 6mo ago
non-deterministic does not mean it is not biased towards a particular type of results (helpful results)
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by krastanov 6mo ago
This is fascinating to me. I completely believe you and I will not bother you with all the common "but did you try to tell it this or that" responses, but this is such a different experience from mine. I did the exact same task wi
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by krastanov 7mo ago
I know that China is an authoritarian near-dictatorial country that oppresses minorities and commits cultural genocide. And I am not an American. That does not seem to be all that related to the original post I was answering to. An average
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by krastanov 7mo ago
Strict police does sound quite a bit less bad than fascist police...
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by krastanov 7mo ago
As an aside, it is really interesting to see a computational package that, while supporting multiple GPU vendors, was first vetted on AMD, not NVidia. It is encouraging to see ROCM finally shaking off its reputation for poor support.
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by krastanov 7mo ago
I am happy to hear that things as not as bad as I thought, but my experience being judge/mentor for a couple of years for the high school science fair near a top university was very discouraging and closer to what the author of the art
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by krastanov 7mo ago
Reviewing a quick translation of a test to a benchmark (or another menial coding tasks) is way less soul-sucking than doing the menial coding by yourself. Boring soul-sucking tasks are an important thankless part of OSS maintenance. I concu
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by krastanov 7mo ago
I maintain serious code bases and I use LLM agents (and agent teams) plenty -- I just happen to review the code they write, I demand they write the code in a reviewable way, and use them mostly for menial tasks that are otherwise unpleasant
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Ask HN: A Single Board Computer for a phone alternative
1 points by krastanov 8mo ago|1 comments
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by krastanov 8mo ago
In my post I actually made a number of (seemingly unclear) claims diametrically opposite to what you surmise I claimed in my original post.
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by krastanov 8mo ago
I find this type of posts unproductive, somewhat emotionally exhausting, and generally impolite. Most of the time open source tools are a labor of love. If the tool is not for you, move on. But self-aggrandizing "this tool is not good
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by krastanov 9mo ago
Usually they randomly shoot atoms at the substrate and then just search for a spot (among thousands) where it randomly has the configuration they want. Still pretty amazing.
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by krastanov 9mo ago
Shor's algorithm does not start with the qubits storing anything related to the n-bit number to be factored. The n-bit number is encoded *only* in the XOR-oracle for the multiplication function. Shor's algorithm starts with the qu
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by krastanov 9mo ago
The initial state was the example given. It is fair to then point out the consecutive states though. A few points still hold: - I am not saying that you have to find a basis in which your amplitudes are not small, I am saying that such a ba
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by krastanov 9mo ago
> When the amplitude has norm 1, there is only one nonzero amplitude. Yes, that is exactly the point. The example statevector you guys are talking about can (tautologically) be written in a basis in which only one of its amplitudes is no
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by krastanov 9mo ago
This is completely missing the point. There is nothing fundamental to an amplitude. The amplitudes are this small because you have chosen to work in a basis in which they are small. Go to the Hadamard basis and the amplitude value is exactl
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by krastanov 9mo ago
The magnitude of an "amplitude" is basis dependent. A basis is a human invention, an arbitrary choice made by the human to describe nature. The choice of basis is not fundamental. So just choose a basis in which there are no vanis
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by krastanov 10mo ago
Isn't 250 square meters already pretty small for a company of their size? That is a small McMansion, and in Serbia the rent is probably 1k$ per month.
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by krastanov 10mo ago
I am currently writing this from an xreal one pro. I think it fits what you are asking for.
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by krastanov 11mo ago
Stochasticity (randomness) is pervasively used in classical algorithms that one compares to. That is nothing new and has always been part of comparisons. "Error prone" hardware is not "a stochastic resource". Error prone
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by krastanov 11mo ago
I think you will have best luck by searching for "open quantum systems" toolboxes in your language of choice. My preferences are, in order: - QuantumOptics.jl in Julia - QuantumToolbox.jl in Julia - qutip in python These are all &
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by krastanov 11mo ago
"deterministic", "superdeterministic", "measurement independence", "local", "causal" and more are well defined terms (with potentially poorly chosen names) in quantum information science and
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by krastanov 11mo ago
The description she gives of what she is doing is a stellar example of good scientific inquiry. The problem, or at least my perception of the situation, is that she does not do what she claims to be doing. She forms uninformed opinions opti

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