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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Wow, this does not look like an exponentially large number of qubits. I thought elliptic curve cryptography was supposed to be secure against quantum computers, but this makes it seem like cracking is still polynomial, just with a larger co
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
This post seems like it was argued in good faith, there were a couple of examples given besides the banking one. I think the issue here is that while cryptography can allow for many different sets of parties to read a given piece of plain t
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
When physicists say something is true in the infrared limit, they mean that it is true for low enough wavelengths. In this case the exact definition of "low enough" depends on the temperature. If the temperature is high enough, th
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The Color of Infinite Temperature(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
332 points by c1ccccc1 5y ago|132 comments
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Frequency shifts do not imply quantum entanglement (2022)(benbrubaker.com)
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
So I guess the answer would be 5 then. 7 & 13 = 0b0111 & 0b1101 = 0b0101 = 5
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Kevin MacLeod(en.wikipedia.org)
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Agree that developers should have to pay the cost for creating infrastructure to support the housing they build. But in general, infrastructure in dense areas will be cheaper per capita to build and maintain than infrastructure in sparse ar
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Let's say I'm viewing a webpage, and I'm curious about some aspect of how it's implemented. I click "view source", and see something that isn't supposed to be there. Is the conclusion "whoops, guess I
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I think it's actually more complicated than that. The strength of the sun's gravity goes as 1/r^2. Move it to the side a bit, and the direction of the gravitational field changes slightly. This direction change goes as 1&#x2F
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
This is a common misconception about the second law of thermodynamics. That law implies that all life must eventually starve to death if nothing else kills it first, because the universe will have run out of usable energy. But as long as th
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I didn't see anyone claiming to be a subject matter expert in math/science education in the article. So a second possibility remains open: they believe that it's possible to raise reasonable objections to this proposal withou
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
This is a really great question that embodies the hacker spirit of trying to find loopholes and edge cases. I'm not an expert, but I think the answer is that there are no half-reachable galaxies. If there is a galaxy that is only parti
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I'm always mildly surprised when I encounter people on the internet talking about Roko's basilisk as something that Eliezer Yudkowsky / "the rationalists" believe in. Very few people ever took it seriously, and Yudk
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
By this point you're probably used to the idea that most of the real numbers are irrational numbers. That is, even though there are countably many rational numbers, there are uncountably many real numbers. Numbers like pi and e, even t
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I think part of it is that the answer depends on the fact that the host's strategy is to always open a door with a goat behind it that the player didn't choose. If the host instead opened one of the doors the player didn't ch
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Derivatives don't always act like fractions(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
"Social Media", I'm guessing.
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I don't know, that seems kind of trite. Lots of kids have really bad experiences in high school, including being physically attacked: Slammed into lockers, rocks thrown at them, that kind of thing. I don't think that does them any
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
In the most general sense of the word bias, there can be biases that arise purely as a result of model architecture. For example, I was messing around with GANs about a year ago, and kept on getting checkerboard-like patterns in the generat
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I think for my objection to apply in the 2D case, you'd need for the force law to be 1/r instead of 1/r^2. That would happen in a truly 2D world, but not in this case where we have charges confined to a 2D plane, but with 3D
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
So the 2d crystals make sense to me, but how do the 3d crystals form? Charge is usually concentrates on the boundaries of a conductor, right? Shouldn't the same apply to an empty region of space?
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
The basic problem here is that there is a limited resource: land that is close to the downtown area where most of the workplaces and other attractions are. Some people (such as yourself) want that land to be filled with a certain kind of ho
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
You say that China's current policy towards the Uyghurs is the "best of a terrible situation". The word "best" implies a search through all possible alternatives. So walk me through the optimization process that rec
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
A utilitarian perspective is probably more productive than worrying about who has the moral high ground in any case. The fact is that the situation in Xinjiang is terrible and seems to be getting worse. The question is what can be done abou
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I'd agree that many business owners are blameworthy (specifically the ones who have sought monopolies for their product or monopsonies for their labour supply), but we shouldn't forget landlords. A huge fraction of people's i
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What Is a Photon?(physics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by c1ccccc1 5y ago|0 comments
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Strongly agree that AI isn't magic, but I think you're making too broad a statement here. AI can certainly be superhuman in some areas, eg. chess and go. Whether or not human-level is the maximum depends on how the training data i
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
A hypothetical company that didn't make anything, but generated high quality patents and licensed them out to other companies would be one thing. I don't know of many companies with that business model, probably because it's
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by c1ccccc1 5y ago
There's a strange pattern in figures 1 and 2 of the paper [1], showing the energy distribution between modes as a function of time. Rescale time so that the energy peaks of mode 1 happen at t=0 and t=1. Then the energy peaks of mode 2

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