Strilanc

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by Strilanc 5y ago
A couple nits: 1. This is a theory paper. They haven't actually performed the gate on hardware yet (or at least there was no data on that in the preprint). They need to experimentally show that directly doing the gate has lower error t
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This is really not the article for me. It's written by someone who, I infer, agrees that Newton "Destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism." [1]. And that is so alien to my experience of understanding thin
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by Strilanc 5y ago
But are the complications from the intervention or from the reason-the-doctor-is-worried-and-intervening? You're implicitly comparing P(complication|intervene) with P(complication|not intervene) but you should probably be comparing P(c
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This isn't always safe to do. It can break duck typing, because not all falsy values are interchangeable in all situations. For example, consider how numpy methods often have an optional `out` parameter indicating where to write the ou
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Maybe you could make a function decorator that looked for a special type of default value indicating how to make the default value each time. Similar to `attr.Factory` [1] for `attr.dataclass` annotations. 1: https://www.attrs.or
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I maybe should have been more explicit: I was referring to the bit-operation cost of big integer multiplication. The only claimed O(n lg n) algorithm for this task [1] notes: > Let n_0 = 2^(d^12) >= 2^4096 and suppose we wish to multi
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I think I went to the wrong "Donnie and Fryer 2013" because it had an abstract that made the schools sound pretty good? [1] > youth offered admission to the Promise Academy middle school score 0.283 standard deviations higher
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by Strilanc 5y ago
It's an interesting theoretical result but not at all practical. Sort of like the n lg n multiplication algorithm: it's nice that we can do it in principle, but you'd never actually use it. There are several reasons it&#x27
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by Strilanc 5y ago
The multi-party maximal-entanglement definition used in the paper is "no matter how you cut it into two pieces, the two pieces are maximally entangled". Monogamy isn't an obstacle because the definition is always using two pi
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Personally I've noticed how dropbox has gone from being a tool that fits well into a larger context, to instead trying to encompass the entire experience of touching synced files. For example, the number of clicks (and the precision of
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Apple is paying them money to make iPhones (according to the article). Apple is surely aware of this sort of behavior; maybe not the specific instance but the general fact. This makes Apple complicit. Similar to how buying factory farmed me
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Seems like a pretty good metric of complexity to me, particularly when it comes to a security audit. Having a lot of packages packaged up in the extension corresponds to having a lot of source code you have to vet, lest it be an avenue of a
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by Strilanc 5y ago
You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac... ). > The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all
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by Strilanc 5y ago
From watching the video and reading one of the papers, I get the sense that the theory being described doesn't work in the usual way. For example, reading the paper it talks about "future inputs" determining what happens, whi
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I kinda of worry that if this site succeeded, it would slowly do to papers what news aggregators and the internet already did to news. Grind and incentivize them down into clickbait with no meat, with as few things as possible that people w
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Even if you uninstall edge , you can't make windows stop trying to open `microsoft-edge://` links with edge. The default-program-settings page lists it but it's a cruel joke because it doesn't let you actually pick
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I think they're referring to this: https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/12/09/fda-says-it-needs-... I tried to read through the court doc [1] linked by the site to find the 75 years but the legalese is be
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by Strilanc 5y ago
One of the genius things about advent of code is that the server never needs to touch unknown, potentially malicious, code. The server just compares the claimed answer to the stored answer. Maybe one way it could do the performance testing
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Oh yeah, that's right.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
I like that the data clearly shows the server issues on day 1.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
It actually was on day 19, it's just that puzzle #13 was the 19th puzzle given out [1]. I'm not sure why the numbers didn't come in order last year. [1]: https://adventofcode.com/2020 shows the number order
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Interesting. I think one of the main benefits of AoC is it tends to teach you things. So I would have gotten stuck, read peoples answers on the subreddit the next day, and the problem would have stuck in my memory as one that taught me some
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by Strilanc 5y ago
The linked article discusses this.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Both of those options have the same measurement statistics on the other side. You can't control whether the other side sees On or Off via entanglement.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
You can't do on/off manipulation of entanglement. Side note: timelike entanglement is kind of funny to read about. It's a bit like describing "just leaving an atom in the same spot for a bit" as a "timelike qua
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This is the design I also usually use for undo/redo. Actually for small interactive editors I like to go further and make it so that anytime you do anything the program serializes its state and loads it back in. This is sometimes too c
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This is part of the reason I like that the first phase of Google's current quantum computer roadmap is "physics derisking" [1]. There's no known reason that it should be impossible to make a thousand qubits dance togethe
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by Strilanc 5y ago
This is the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11482 It's actually from last year, and other groups have done better experiments since then (in particular, experiments doing multiple rounds of correction instead of
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Thank you. They don't all conform to the specific pattern you said, but the more general "media keeps reporting iphone production cut rumors" is certainly there.
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by Strilanc 5y ago
Do you have a few examples?

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