sir_kin

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by sir_kin 6y ago
> Can you link me to some researcher where a stronger social net leads to better entrepreneur outcomes? is Harvard good enough? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/07/public-progra... https:&
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by sir_kin 7y ago
Real world data disagrees with your suspicion. Might want to rethink your reasoning.
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by sir_kin 7y ago
Musk 100% comes from wealth [1]. In America, there's the whole mythos of the rags-to-riches American dream. Some people whose story is really riches-to-more-riches present their success as the former. [1] https://www.busines
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by sir_kin 7y ago
Yeah. At the high school and college level, the Olympiads for math and CS are pretty analogous. But there's really popular semi-formal coding contests which exist outside academia which don't really have a math equivalent. I'
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by sir_kin 7y ago
With at-will employment, Chipotle can fire her for no reason at all. > This means that employers may terminate employees for any reason or for no reason at all, as long as it is not illegal. [1] Wrongful termination would only apply if C
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by sir_kin 8y ago
Copying my reply to a different post: From my understanding, they're claiming that the linear resistance-temperature curve with a slope of h-bar is evidence that the electrons are in something akin to a maximally entangled state. Via t
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by sir_kin 8y ago
From my understanding, they're claiming that the linear resistance-temperature curve with a slope of h-bar is evidence that the electrons are in something akin to a maximally entangled state. Via the AdS-CFT correspondence, such a maxi
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by sir_kin 8y ago
And the Atlantic article is just a repackaging of the original Quanta magazine article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/universal-quantum-phenomenon-...
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by sir_kin 8y ago
For more info on that 1000:1 ratio, see [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
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by sir_kin 8y ago
2018 LOGICAL qubits would break current crypto. But qubits decohere extremely fast, so you need error correcting schemes. Current estimates require 1000 - 10000 physical qubits per logical error corrected qubit. [1] https://en.wi
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The Other Russia(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sir_kin 8y ago
I'd rather people be held accountable for what they create, especially when it involves me, my stuff, or my data. I'd rather firms like Equifax be regulated into the ground than get a free pass due to scaremongering. (coincidental
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by sir_kin 8y ago
> I believe corporations can and should contribute back to the Military if they have benefited financially from military technology. Do you also believe corporations should contribute to Experimental Particle Physics at CERN if they have
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by sir_kin 8y ago
https://pastebin.com/raw/Nmr5E8JU
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by sir_kin 9y ago
The purpose of universities is twofold: to educate and to produce new knowledge. You seem to have the mindset that most of a professor's work should be teaching-related. People don't do PhDs because they want to teach, they do it
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by sir_kin 9y ago
Any suggestions on how to get started on this topic, or anyons in general? I finished math & phys undergrad, but not sure how to dive in. I read the relevant chapter from Preskill's Quantum Computation lecture notes ( http:/&#
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by sir_kin 10y ago
Weirdly enough, when he was demonstrating the Stroop test, I had absolutely no slowdown for cuss words; maybe 3x faster than when the text named a different color.