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by eigenket 2y ago
I'm also interested in the least pythonic spreadsheet, has anyone worked on that?
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by eigenket 2y ago
I used to live in North Yorkshire until I moved away to start a job in mainland Europe. When I moved I tried to fill in the form on their website to indicate that I wouldn't be paying the council tax on the house I used to live in anym
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by eigenket 2y ago
Oh yeah, if that's what you're talking about you're just wrong. There are standard ways to deal with that in reversible computing, the most obvious is just to keep enough of the original data around that everything becomes in
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by eigenket 2y ago
Can you be more explicit about the functions it can't compute? I'm pretty sure it can output at least some periodic things (e.g. it's trivial to make it output 01010101 forever). Edit: just looking at it I'm pretty sure
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by eigenket 2y ago
Super determinism gets around the "problem" of Bell's inequality experiments by saying that the choices of experiment settings chosen by the experimenters are correlated with things we usually wouldn't expect them to be
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by eigenket 2y ago
I mostly agree with this but I would like to emphasise that Bell's theorem emphatically doesn't tell you the universe isn't deterministic. It tells you there isn't a local hidden variables model for it (under appropria
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by eigenket 2y ago
I don't have any particular love for string string theory, but this work seems more sensible than several of the commentators here appear to think. One of string theory's many problems is that it gives you an absurdly large number
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by eigenket 2y ago
This is essentially the plot of a book called Accelerando, published way back in 2005!
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by eigenket 2y ago
They meet the god of evolution, he is completely obsessed with beetles.
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by eigenket 2y ago
Ok so the relevant error rate you can think of as a quantity measuring (either on average or worst case) how far the state you produced in your quantum computer is from the state you wanted to create. I.e. if the error rate is small the sta
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by eigenket 2y ago
Oh yeah, I was talking in the context of the source being the sun. Of course other sources vary.
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by eigenket 2y ago
> How does the wave poking some electron to a higher state remember the temperature of its source? The black-body spectrum of the source determines the amount of waves it outputs at each frequency, and in turn is determined by the temper
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by eigenket 2y ago
To be clear: there are two related but ultimately separate claims here. 1. Shor's algorithm won't work on the very noisy quantum computer we have for the near and intermediate future. 2. Shor's algorithm won't work on a
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by eigenket 2y ago
I think its unknown, but my feeling is that the answer is almost certainly no. These sort of variational algorithms are appealing (to some people) because they're potentially usable on the sort of noisy small quantum computers we have
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by eigenket 2y ago
I agree
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by eigenket 2y ago
Yeah, for Shor's algorithm to factor an integer of order 2^k you need controlled phase gates with phases roughly order 2^{-k} (very roughly, with some caveats, but lets just say you need some small ones) these very small phase gates ar
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by eigenket 2y ago
Significantly larger numbers than 15 have been factored [1] but not using Shor's algorithm. Shor's algorithm is particularly sensitive to noise/errors in your quantum computer and isn't going to be useful unless we get a
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by eigenket 3y ago
Unlikely does not mean the same as impossible, so no. There are also some "loopholes" in the story I told above. For example the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is completely local and deterministic, but weird enou
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by eigenket 3y ago
The name of the whole of Illinois is an American-English mispronunciation of a French mispronunciation of a Native American word which is/was something like irenwe·wa.
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by eigenket 3y ago
I believe that is how things traditionally were, but I think it is rather rare today. It will depend on the specific breeder what they do with them. I'm sure some smaller breeders keep the males around but this is not the case with lar
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by eigenket 3y ago
I'm very far from qualified to talk about the economics of the egg industry but quoting from Wikipedia > On 18 July 2021, French Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, announced chick culling would be banned from 1 January 20
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by eigenket 3y ago
I think that in the absense of a "god" to tell us, everyone has to come to their own conclusions about where they draw moral lines. For me specifically I think that being able to make plans about the future is a superficially app
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by eigenket 3y ago
> And there's no ethical problems when it's in a backyard or the chickens are free ranging. I believe there are. The people buying the chickens for their lovely free range or backyard thing are specifically only buying female o
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by eigenket 3y ago
Not necessarily, but certainly usually (unless you're in France, Germany or Italy as I mentioned).
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by eigenket 3y ago
Of course, I strongly agree.
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by eigenket 3y ago
Theres still some kinda difficult ethical problems with those. People generally want female chickens, since that's where the eggs come from (and I think there are problems with having multiple males in a flock). Unfortunately naturally
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by eigenket 3y ago
Its interesting to see, how people assume that those vitamins will be lacking. Its not like humans are completely stupid, we're perfectly capable of adding vitamins to some food if we want.
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by eigenket 3y ago
In the UK the word comes from Norse, via the Viking Invasion not directly from anything Germanic (other than that Germanic and Norse share some stuff).
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by eigenket 3y ago
No it's not. W and y are vowels in Welsh (y can also be a consonant sometimes but I think only in words loaned from English). In Welsh the letter w stands for a sound something like the double o in the English word book.
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by eigenket 3y ago
US pronunciation is (from the point of view of a western european) very very wild sometimes. If you ask anyone who lives closer to Paris than America how to pronounce the university of Notre Dame you're going to get a very different an

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