samaman

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by samaman 4y ago
This is a really cool finding, but also really sad considering all of the animals from before are now extinct. Hope future grassland and forest protection programs take this history into account!
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by samaman 4y ago
And not tesla, seriously?
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by samaman 4y ago
Very fun to see how trends got started! Searched quantum computing and the oldest result was Peter Schor's paper on what would become Schors algorithm
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by samaman 4y ago
Adamatzky is a GOAT in biocomputing. Hes the sort of researcher who really makes me question why we spend so much money on developing quantum computers and other new ways of modeling biosystems when using other biosystems as analogs seems f
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by samaman 5y ago
I'd be very very worried about a protein model that just came out alphafold to be used to come up with drug targets without at least some molecular dynamics simulation of the solution within which that protein works with. There may be
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by samaman 5y ago
"In 2018, I wrote in the Washington Post that startups have begun usurping the responsibilities of governments at breathtaking pace. Whether it was Uber and Lyft supplementing much of public transport in major cities or Palantir assist
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by samaman 5y ago
You'd have thought that that Quorum blockchain would prevent such things..
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by samaman 5y ago
"Not only that, but the decentralised utopia that Nakamoto dreamed about, namely avoiding trusted third parties, is still far out of reach. Ironically, there are now three mining pools – a type of company that builds rooms full of serv
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by samaman 5y ago
Right okay makes sense...guess I am just too used to NISQ and having to run many thousands of shots for high enough fidelity..if all you wanted was one output, then yeah one classical string is easy enough, thanks
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by samaman 5y ago
Right, but you would still get the basis states for all 127 qubits right? And that would be 2^127 output states. Yes, you could do some sort of search maybe to find highest probability outputs only, but if you needed every output value for
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by samaman 5y ago
Also another problem: you now have 2^127 output values leaving the quantum processor. If you're using a hybrid quantum algorithm that requires classical processing as well (which are most algos used today), you'd need more than a
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by samaman 5y ago
Maybe you just havent been seeing the same horror I've been seeing in terms of whole families getting covid and falling quite sick in India due to the shock it caused to the healthcare system..
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by samaman 5y ago
I just want everyone here to know that Sequoia is funded by university endowments, and yet still does not have the confidence to invest in bleeding edge technology, picking instead to invest largely in "moat oriented" software. N
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by samaman 5y ago
As someone who was an avid swift developer, I can see how people can get attracted to building OSS for .NET or Swift, and how it might even be necessary in many cases given the lack of feature update by the companies. But, after leaving the
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by samaman 5y ago
If they wanted African supply of an mRNA vaccine, why didn't they just use The Odin's completely open recipe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/one-bioha... , which was based on the M
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by samaman 5y ago
Thanks, how does this compare for matrix multiplication and logistical regression to other machine learning specific cores though, like a GPU or one of those Google Tensor Cores? These Alibaba chips don't seem like they'd do very
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by samaman 5y ago
I feel so bad for Sophie Zhang. Not only did she risk her job to whistleblow, but she had the limelight totally stolen from her by Frances, even though she said many of the same things already months prior. And it wasn't Frances'
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by samaman 5y ago
To respond to the title: yes, yes they are, if you consider how many live in infura or an AWS geth instance and/or quorum by JPM. Doesn't mean its not a better means for data security...just that yes, the publisher of said smart c
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by samaman 5y ago
I think that's their whole business model really, a beautiful skin and api on top of a very boring process that makes developers want to use it. Stripe itself doesn't really handle a lot of the banking work and uses Evolve Bank (l
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by samaman 5y ago
Just reminds me of Chaco Canyon and how eloquently light transforms can be used for many purposes https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/Education/SolarAstronomy/sun-dagge... .
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by samaman 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! Great site.
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by samaman 5y ago
Agreed. While there are of course exceptions to the standard model that may end up being explained with sedenions and higher dimensionality, it's still quite robust.
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by samaman 5y ago
Is someone going to tell them that AI/ML is just a set of regression algos, potentially on top of other regression algos, and that it is used in nearly every aspect of any online service they use to bring their service to them faster?
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by samaman 5y ago
Take a look at Berlin's suburbs street view and you'll see the answer, which is still have places for bungalows, but dont have excessively large roads and driveways to get there
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by samaman 5y ago
The show "The Looming Tower" on Hulu documents this well, would recommend checking it out if you want to learn more. It also documents how the CIA and NSA basically froze the FBI out of key intel. What I find super ironic is this
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by samaman 5y ago
We can't even simulate all the organs in the body, let alone do it to the scale and depth needed to effectively sort out EVERY possibility for death. I would rather these billionaires pay their taxes to allow the NIH and other actually
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by samaman 5y ago
THIS this is so accurate, and the patenting offices are so bureaucratic too! Worked in one at a UC and if I worked past 5pm or came in early, people thought I was crazy. I remember I set up a linkedin tracker one week and people thought I w
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by samaman 5y ago
What the comment basically said is that adenovirus on it's own produced coagulation aka clotting, but that PEG wrapping decreases coagulation a lot. Therefore, a vaccine embedded in PEG, like those made by BioNTech and Moderna, should
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by samaman 6y ago
Ah, reminds me of the time I ran through $15k worth of compute in all of 3 weeks trying to do biological modeling. What was strange was that we were being charged for higher bandwidth even though it was not said to be any more for that same