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by 3PS 6y ago
If I recall correctly, Microsoft has gone all-in on topological quantum computing as an alternative to the superconducting loops preferred by Google and IBM. I'm really hoping their work pans out, since it would mean a lot for our futu
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by 3PS 6y ago
I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned An Infinitely Large Napkin by Evan Chen [1]. It's a fantastic, very dense primer and overview of a large variety of university-level topics in mathematics. It was originally targeted at high
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by 3PS 6y ago
One of my favorite classes had a few simple tests provided by the professor, and the rest of the tests were provided by students. Our grade was based on our score on the overall test suite, combined with the quality of our own provided test
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by 3PS 6y ago
With GPU support and eventually GUI support incoming, I think WSL has basically hit maturity for me. Any other features past here are "nice-to-have" but not a must. Between WSL 2, the new terminal, VSCode remote, the new Docker ba
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by 3PS 6y ago
I'm using a 1st gen Surface Book 1. Dual core, 6th gen i7. Not an awful computer but not a monster either. Seeing the other responses in this thread, I think it may have to do more with network bandwidth.
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by 3PS 6y ago
Desktop, for Facebook. I've tried to avoid installing their phone apps for privacy reasons.
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by 3PS 6y ago
I'm actually really surprised by the number of comments in this thread about how the new redesign is slower. I've had it since yesterday and it genuinely feels much faster and more responsive than the old Facebook UI - though, to
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by 3PS 6y ago
In my experience, pretty well. If the internet cuts out temporarily, it reconnects automatically without losing any of your work.
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by 3PS 6y ago
The Title-Case is unnecessary; the commands aren't case sensitive. It's just considered good practice for maintainability. Plus, most common commands are aliased to shorter ones.
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by 3PS 7y ago
Last year, npm rewrote a CPU-bound service in Node.js, Go, and Rust. They noted that the Rust version took the longest to write, but had basically no issues at runtime. https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-np
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by 3PS 7y ago
Not super related to the article, but I had to get this off my chest. Suppose you use VSCode on Windows to write a Flutter app targeting the Surface Duo. In that case, you would be using a Microsoft editor running a Google SDK on a Microsof
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by 3PS 7y ago
Perhaps there's a sampling bias? After all, copy-paste content is the easiest to find and moderate in an automated way, whereas high-quality manipulation is more likely to go unseen.
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by 3PS 7y ago
Right, sure. If I had to guess, though, bricklaying is still O(n) no matter how many corners you cut.
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by 3PS 7y ago
One of my favorite quotes from my old data structures professor in college was this: "software is non-linear." If you're laying down the bricks for a house, there really aren't any cheap tricks or shortcuts. Building two
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by 3PS 7y ago
For the record, if you only use youtube-dl for the purposes of downloading audio (like me), then you can keep a config file in $HOME/.config/youtube-dl/config with default arguments so you don't have to look them up each
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by 3PS 7y ago
As always, take these numbers with a grain of salt, but benchmarks seem to suggest that F# on .NET Core is significantly faster than OCaml [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case myself given how much work Microsoft has put
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by 3PS 7y ago
At the moment, quantum computers have only been shown to give exponential speedups over classical computers on problems that can reduced to the special case of the hidden subgroup problem for finite abelian groups [1]. This is only really a
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by 3PS 7y ago
Rust also backs up this design with the Send and Sync traits, which statically prevent programmers from, say, accidentally sending an Rc<T> between threads when they really should have used an Arc<T> instead.
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by 3PS 7y ago
A very nuanced take, certainly. Thank you.
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by 3PS 7y ago
> Functor isn’t the only algebraic structure either. I actually wouldn't call it an algebraic structure at all. A functor really isn't just a set with some finitary operations. A quick search online [1] tells me I'm not al
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by 3PS 7y ago
> Occasionally we mathematicians find that we need a new tactic—for example proving that (a+b)^3=a^3+3a^2b+3ab^2+b^3 just from the axioms of a ring is surprisingly difficult! Perhaps because what you need there is not just a ring, but a
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by 3PS 7y ago
The issue, in my opinion, is when you want something like this: while m := f(many, args): # do stuff with m Now, if you're writing this in Python 3.7, you often end up with some code duplication: m = f(many, args
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by 3PS 7y ago
A tip: you can use an extra newline to make the bullet points appear on the next line.
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by 3PS 7y ago
So this is a little nuanced. It's true that quantum systems collapse on "observation", but that doesn't actually mean "observation by a sentient entity". It could really just be any interaction with the outside
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by 3PS 7y ago
Short answer, a qubit is a unit vector in a 2D complex Hilbert space. Now, that doesn't actually say much about why we care or how they're useful. In practical terms, you can think of qubits as complex unit vectors along two axes,
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by 3PS 7y ago
A question. Does map-reduce assume a commutative monoid, or does it need to order the output of map? Edit: seems like it's the latter.
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by 3PS 7y ago
I'm curious, are you still experiencing issues with localhost networking? I'd read that as of build 18945, those issues should mostly be fixed. [1] Or is it that you're hosting applications on Windows and trying to access the
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by 3PS 7y ago
These are two of their highest requested features at the moment [1] [2], and if I recall correctly they specifically remarked on passing through hardware as one of their main priorities going forward with WSL2. Unfortunately it requires som
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by 3PS 8y ago
Thank you, this works like a charm! I tried it on tapas.io where it got rid of both the annoyingly thick header as well as the sidebar.
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by 3PS 8y ago
It's not just markdown that doesn't work on the mobile client, I don't think syntax highlighting is supported at all yet. I agree that the keybindings are nice - personally I'm also fond of the robust bot APIs and the en

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