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by Strilanc 5y ago
I just assumed she was remembering it out of order. A lot happened very fast and she started off asleep.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
They're saying they don't trust that the constants defining the curve were chosen non-maliciously. The NSA has, in the past, standardized protocols that contained intentional backdoors embedded into the constants used in the defin
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Hashlife only gets exponential speedups when patterns repeat with exponentially large periods. The relevant parts of an algorithm solving an NP-complete problem aren't going to repeat in the right way to get the speedup.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I should probably add that I know everything I've said isn't convincing to a skeptic. Ultimately it comes down to: I know I can think of the quantum state as being really real, and that will work totally fine. I find that style
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by Strilanc 5y ago
In this case the "classical state" would just be a preferred basis for the polarization. And basically what I'm saying is "If superpositions of polarizations aren't real, why is there such a natural way to change th
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by Strilanc 5y ago
That's actually the opposite of what the PBR theorem shows (follow the wikipedia reference I included).
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by Strilanc 5y ago
> You're confusing statistics with events. I'm aware of the distinction. > How does a particle keep track of how many other entities it's entangled with and in what ways? Where does that information live? [...] A comple
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I've never found epistemic interpretations compelling (like QBism, which is what the article is about). I'll try to explain why. First, the stuff we do with quantum mechanics just seems sort of... really obviously objective? It&#x
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by Strilanc 5y ago
There are a lot of different ways of understanding what exactly it is that makes quantum computers more powerful. There isn't one simple clean answer. As a counterpoint to the "it's the bigger state space" idea, note tha
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This result is only about one kind of quantum algorithm. I don't agree with the characterization of quantum computers as being more like hard drives. If anything this result pushes in the opposite direction. Quantum algorithms work bes
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by Strilanc 5y ago
The advantage of the quantum algorithm drops from exponential to polynomial, when the classical algorithm is able to query the data in the way it's being assumed the quantum algorithms can query the data.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This might be coming up again because the paper was finally published, like in a journal after peer-review, one month ago [1]. The pre-print has been available since 2018 [2]. [1]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract&
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by Strilanc 5y ago
You can use fiber to distribute entanglement. You can use entanglement distillation to deal with noise. You can use entanglement swapping to deal with router hops. But it will be awhile before anyone can actually build a large scale quantum
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by Strilanc 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on google's quantum team and I'm not gonna read the patent for legal reasons.) From the perspective of someone in the field, the title of this article sounds kinda funny. The notable thing would be if the desig
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Why would it need to be end-point to end-point? Just have routers continuously build up entanglement with their neighbors, do entanglement swapping along packet-switched paths, and then use the entanglement to teleport via the classical int
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This is a very interesting idea. I worry that the runtime overhead might be enormous (adding two numbers involves concatenating strings), and cause the space usage of the program to depend on its execution time. I think it's still miss
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I second "just try all of them" when testing single precision floats. It's really easy to do, and gives you a lot of confidence in the correctness. For example, I had a float-to-bytes-to-floats conversion in some GPU shaders
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by Strilanc 5y ago
The professor's reasoning is near the start of the video about the bet [1]. Basically they thought the makers of blackbird were fooling themselves (e.g. measuring slower wind at the bottom of the car vs the top of the propeller, or get
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I also get this feedback on my papers. E.g. saying that it's written "more like a blog post". Of course, they're not wrong. It is written more like a blog post. Because the writing style used in blog posts is hands dow
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Thank you. As far as I can tell, based on the mentioned author name and year and topic, that article is talking about the paper "Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in warming climate"
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This sort of comment should include a source showing the 5 year old prediction. (For example, there'd be a big difference between a five year old article saying "we're worried this thing is going to collapse over the next two
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by Strilanc 5y ago
The original comment just says "because of entropy". It's not an explanation, it's an appeal to a black-box technical term. So I pointed out an obvious way in which that term did not apply, since we're rather furthe
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Entropy maxing out is more of a 10^100 year problem than a 100 year problem.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Quantum computers are like that until you get to 1%-0.1% error rates, at which point error correction becomes possible [1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Sometimes the line can get a bit blurry. For example, suppose that as a convenience feature a service will automatically decompose sequences of unsupported gates into supported gates. And suppose the user happened to be providing sequences
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by Strilanc 5y ago
How much delay do you estimate on the discovery time of Newton's three laws of motion, if Newton was deleted from history? Suppose I told you that you could delete five people born in the 1800s, of your choosing, from history. How much
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by Strilanc 5y ago
The author is also probably used to driving with tens of minutes of latency. I would guess the current Mars driving experience is more of a planning experience, where an unexpected obstacle ruins the plan and creates an hour of delay from r
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by Strilanc 5y ago
> you end up with lots of scenes where one character has to come across as clueless so that the other character can explain things to them (and to the reader) The movie made this much worse. In particular, the scene where Donald Glover
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Everything you said is right, except the part about quantum networks needing to do physical circuit switching. For example, consider a series of quantum routers. Each just continuously builds entanglement with its neighbors. When you want t
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by Strilanc 5y ago
You should read the wikipedia article "Entropy and Life" [1]. Life is not a growing form of negentropy. This is why living things have to eat. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life

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