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by asafira 13y ago
I actually fall into a similar category. I fell for their advertising, too (a man can dream...), but it's definitely clear to me that this really is a toy and not really practical for much. Definitely not practical for most (all?) of t
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by asafira 13y ago
Awesome post. It's great to see a top comment on HN that isn't hugely disagreeing with the article in a (perhaps borderline) disrespectful way. Furthermore, I agree that often times the best way to go about doing things is being r
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by asafira 13y ago
Scott actually had some good thoughts about D_Wave at some point. A year or so ago, D-Wave actually gave him a personal tour of the place, and convinced him that they were legitimately doing good research (He wrote about this in his blog:
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by asafira 13y ago
Awesome Compilation. I had the suspicion that a lot of the higher-ups were IIT grads, but I never looked into it. (Not that that's a bad thing, but it's interesting). Is there a very pro-google culture in India? Does Google recrui
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by asafira 13y ago
(Spoiler) Here's a way to do the second one: http://tinyurl.com/ojs6ux5
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by asafira 13y ago
buying* a product. My bad!
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by asafira 13y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that Anand did a good piece on this, with some more details into his methodology: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-revi... Anandtech has some great revie
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by asafira 13y ago
Google has mentioned that they had this sort of internet infrastructure in mind, right? Awesome to see it move forward!
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by asafira 13y ago
Ouch, looks like you are taking a lot of slack for this --- don't worry, I didn't realize the protocol for Russian Roulette was not to spin again after the first attempt, either. You're right if they spun it again afterwards, they are right
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by asafira 13y ago
I don't know much about this, but you might not want to have your e-mail address so easily formatted for a bot, right? You might get a lot of spam soon?
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by asafira 13y ago
How do we let you know we are hackernews people?
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by asafira 13y ago
Also, it's telling me that the Youtube video chosen was not available in my country (of the USA). Hm...maybe they should choose another video?
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by asafira 13y ago
Dumb question: let's say I want to link gchat with twitter, and all the text after "tweet " I send to the zapier bot I want to be tweeted. Naively, I set things up (pretty easily, too!) to tweet ALL of the text I sent to the zapier bot. Is
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by asafira 14y ago
I wasn't a CS major while there, but I did take a few CS classes. Those classes, in particular, are top notch, and a lot of time was clearly spent on at least the intro classes (the first 3-4 classes you may take). The classes are very well
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by asafira 14y ago
Do other universities offer similar classes?
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by asafira 14y ago
I'm a princeton alum --- unfortunately, this isn't mandatory, but it's pretty popular!
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by asafira 14y ago
This is great to see! Of course, this stuff isn't easy to jump into, but I recommend checking out some of the free online courses for something good. Coursera once had a quantum computer course (!) taught by a pretty famous guy in the field
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by asafira 14y ago
I can almost guarantee they will buy this version.
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by asafira 14y ago
For the record, this is also true for every quantum computer in existence. What is clear though, is that quantum computers have already solved problems in fewer steps than classical computers. And to be fair, it's going to take a while to b
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by asafira 14y ago
D.E. Shaw current is one of the leaders (if not the leader) in molecular dynamics (i.e., studying the motion of the specific atoms in a molecule, or watching the dynamics of a chemical reaction), and it's a really hard problem. Roughly spea
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by asafira 14y ago
Sure it's possible, and that's probably what will happen with the first few quantum computers. =D
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by asafira 14y ago
And then there are papers like this: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00300-003-0563-3 If people are blacked from seeing it, here's a commentary on it: http://www.nashturley.org/2012/09/27/pinguin-poop-paper/
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by asafira 14y ago
I think the fact of the matter is simply this: at some point in one's career in physics, when you make a decision between being an experimentalist and theorist, you don't spend nearly as much time focusing on the theory. I don't think it's
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by asafira 14y ago
Well, while I'm sure this might raise eyebrows among those that are protective of their personal data, I was just happy to see there was no shitstorm after requesting a no-fingerprint entrance --- I think it's good that that is a "oh, no bi
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by asafira 14y ago
I'm surprised this isn't getting at least a few more upvotes, but I think it's an article that lays down a lot of facts and doesn't just lay down a couple and them embellishes them with some strong subjectivity. Does anyone have a solution
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by asafira 14y ago
I don't think sending an e-mail is the right way to get this info out to them. Honestly though, do we really think that they don't know most, if not all, of this? I think that a lot of it is quite nit-picky, and in the scheme of things, whe
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by asafira 14y ago
I think I agree with most of your points, but disagree with your disapproval of "easier to learn". The presentation of material really makes a gigantic difference on how well you learn the material (if at all). While I agree that coursera a
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by asafira 14y ago
Yeah, good call --- I agree that's a little too opaque. Maybe a typical user has only 1 e-mail address, but I am sure there is a huge population of users otherwise. Plenty of less tech-savy friends of mine have a couple of e-mail addresses
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by asafira 14y ago
Ha -- I still remember getting so confused as to how I go to my contacts when they changed gmail's look a year or so ago. I was actually starting to think the only way was going to "www.google.com/contacts", but eventually I got curious as
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by asafira 14y ago
I think there are some pretty unintuitive "features" it has. Example: reply to someone that has sent you an e-mail. Gmail sends you to a new section of the page below their e-mail, and allows you to start typing your response (just like it

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