shalg

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by shalg 2mo ago
It’s 16 years old and just as old are the criticisms?????
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by shalg 2mo ago
It’s at odds with the philosophy of do one thing and do it well. Its monolithic feature set pushes out smaller contributors and leads to increased reliance on a singular package. This tends to self reinforce. I also use systemd in my curren
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by shalg 6mo ago
As long as humans keep using the internet I can’t see it mattering too much. Has this impacted the amount people who are using social media I wonder.
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by shalg 6mo ago
Doubt
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by shalg 1y ago
Photonic quantum computing is by no means at the point where it will definitely scale. I wouldn’t really say any platform is though.
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by shalg 1y ago
There are exactly 2 reasons we might want quantum networks. 1. 100% secure communication channels (even better we can detect any attempt at eavesdropping and whatever information is captured will be useless to the eavesdropper) 2. Building
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by shalg 1y ago
Relevant article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638992... Something about this new iteration of phrenology seems more insidious. It allows researchers to avoid having to make actual cl
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by shalg 2y ago
Probably will slightly increase old fashioned methods. More likely though it’s going to accelerate social isolation :/
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by shalg 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quan... ^^ The best resource there is to start with.
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by shalg 2y ago
Oh also to clarify: What exactly is the device they have made? Well it's pretty complicated but one handwavey explanation is that they have created a device that splits an electron into two quasiparticles and does computations by physi
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by shalg 2y ago
Some background for the unfamiliar. This is a new type of quantum computing platform that Microsoft has been pursuing almost independently. Most major research groups focus on superconducting qubits (IBM, Google) or trapped atoms/ions,
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Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds(nature.com)
95 points by shalg 2y ago|41 comments
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by shalg 2y ago
Oh and to be clear the visualization is nonsense it doesn’t relate to anything.
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by shalg 2y ago
Quantum mechanics tells us that the qubit (coin) can exist in any linear superposition of heads and tails. To express this you write a|heads> + b|tails> the only constraint is that a^2 + b^2 must equal 1. Now why would that be the con