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by asafira 8y ago
Pros: 1) You almost always will own a larger chunk of the core product, and it's easy to point your finger to details that you played a big role in figuring out. 2) At good (small) startups, the transparency is enough so that you have
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by asafira 8y ago
Do others here use the "hard push" functionality of their trackpad? I honestly forget that's a thing most of the time.
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by asafira 8y ago
I happen to have just watched this video that reviews the device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wGGp88nBs Around the 5:50 mark: "Obviously you could watch movies and stuff on this [the touchpad screen]." Who w
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by asafira 8y ago
I always feel somewhat bad when I do this, but it really is much easier to read the first few comments. For really long articles, I often only read the beginning, catch something I want to comment on, and hope I didn't need the rest fo
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by asafira 8y ago
Unfortunately, things are quite a bit more complicated than this. The current issues in quantum computing aren't so much that it becomes difficult to describe a many-qubit system, but that those qubits individually (and pair-wise) aren
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by asafira 8y ago
Quantum computing being all about the tensor product is like saying state-of-the-art image recognition is all about matrix multiplication. There is a hell of a lot more to it.
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by asafira 8y ago
"With a range of 1,427 nm..." Hm...I'm calling shenanigans.
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by asafira 8y ago
Quantum mechanics should be listed as another reason to learn about eigenvectors and eigenvalues! =)
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by asafira 8y ago
Here's how I would do it, my 2 cents: 1) Find a good source of information --- typically, this is either very good lectures (like on youtube), a good textbook, or good lecture notes. 2) Do problems. There is a fairly large gap between
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by asafira 8y ago
I am not sure where you got the impression that it's essential for any physics student, but I have never used it and don't think it's mattered much in my upbringing as a physicist.
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by asafira 8y ago
If you were a graph, which would you be? More seriously: do people think that any questions that require anything more than DFS, BFS, and/or Dijkstra are reasonable to ask for most general software engineering positions? (I appreciate
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by asafira 8y ago
I think there are some big misunderstandings here unfortunately, and it's likely because coherence is rarely defined well. yomritoyj claims that the lack of coherence shouldn't impact whether or not destructive or constructive int
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by asafira 8y ago
I think I agree with you that the degree might be more aptly named "data science", but that's a relatively minor detail in the scheme of things. I don't think I would claim most AI work is research, but regardless, I thi
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by asafira 8y ago
Would you consider an undergraduate degree in Physics the same as a graduate degree in physics? No, I would not expect a person with an undergrad degree in physics to have nearly the same capabilities and understanding of a PhD holder in ge
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by asafira 8y ago
First semester course only --- so it's now two semesters? Is it better?
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by asafira 8y ago
I'm sure others here have far, far more experience with QT that I do, I wanted to give my 2 cents: QT has been great for the experimental control software we run to perform experiments in our lab ( https://github.com/LIS
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by asafira 8y ago
I disagree with others here --- I wasn't a huge fan of the class. If you took the class, you definitely had to get used to coding in python, and getting used to manipulating data in python. However, when it came time to do anything mor
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by asafira 9y ago
I definitely appreciate now that there are good algorithms to make your random bits more random, and hash functions can help, but regarding calling johnson noise quantum mechanical: can you give one reference of a description of finite-temp
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by asafira 9y ago
I always thought you did this by performing statistics on sample values to see if very unlikely correlations exist.
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by asafira 9y ago
Genuine question: why would switching out the source of random bits make for that much more complexity? The hardware is more complicated right now for sure --- do you mean to say that the work in checking the hardware doesn't have less
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by asafira 9y ago
Why is it just as unpredictable? There are measurements you can make that could help you predict Johnson noise. For many quantum schemes, it's much tougher. (Not that it is easy for an attacker to make those measurements in the first p
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by asafira 9y ago
Regarding the last article: it is a little vague in its argument, and I definitely have a few questions: Is it true that the encrytion algorithms still aren't the weakest link for highly sensitive classified information (e.g. in the go
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by asafira 9y ago
I know this is probably not the answer you are looking for, but I wanted to chip in nonetheless: English is my 3rd language, but I was more-or-less forced to learn it once I started school in Kindergarten. So, I learned during my first two
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by asafira 9y ago
Are we going to get a version 2.0 of the hololens or oculus anytime soon to see what the next-generation lineup is going to be like? Is there already information out on them?
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by asafira 9y ago
This is how I learned it! (Baby Rudin, anyway.) I wonder if this is still the go-to for undergraduate classes --- does anyone know?
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by asafira 9y ago
Luckily, that wasn't the only option.
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by asafira 9y ago
Interesting to say he doesn't care about Qualcomm given it's in the title? I agree he clearly points towards patents as being an issue, but it's not clear to me he doesn't care about Qualcomm --- he clearly knows a lot a
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by asafira 9y ago
Hey everyone --- I work with defects in diamond for my PhD! While they are completely different from the chunks of ice described here, let me know if there is something I can help with.
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by asafira 9y ago
While the coincidence is real ... why couldn't these shots have been 1 millisecond off from one another? The shutter times are short enough for it... I know it's nit-picking, but why make that the title? Otherwise, it's also
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by asafira 9y ago
The S9 does have a headphone jack...

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