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601.
by gaze 8y ago
If, as people here have suggested, that WPF is dead, I now wonder if desktop apps in general are being killed. I liked qt widgets quite a lot but I think that's mostly in maintenance mode. How do these companies expect the end user to
602.
by gaze 8y ago
Why are we so worried about quantum computers when there's backdoored random number generators (Dual-EC DRBG) and stuff in play? I just don't understand it.
603.
by gaze 8y ago
At best, d-wave is making an adiabatic quantum computer, not a gate based quantum computer, at worst (most likely), they're a scam.
604.
by gaze 8y ago
The company is very clearly mismanaged.
605.
by gaze 8y ago
Of course it is. Nearly every physicist knew this was quackery from day one. It should of course be tested properly, but nobody should be surprised.
606.
by gaze 8y ago
I wonder if there’s a better cheap thermal printer than receipt printers. The thermal printers used in ultrasound machines seem really nice.
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by gaze 8y ago
People take higher skilled jobs partially because people are more likely to treat you like an adult! Do you wanna be nickeled and dimed for spending too much time in the bathroom? Shit like that. It’s often times just a really rough life. A
608.
by gaze 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_shaper There are multiple kinds of shapers. Plus, give them a little poetic leeway.
609.
by gaze 9y ago
And all of them named Chad
610.
by gaze 9y ago
This encapsulates why I left Silicon Valley.
611.
by gaze 9y ago
The difference is the character of the non-linearity.
612.
by gaze 9y ago
I’m imagining buying more red meat causing your premiums to rise.
613.
by gaze 9y ago
Absolutely not. The time complexity is exactly the same. A quantum computer can simulate quantum annealing with exactly the same asymptotic complexity as an “analog” physical system that takes advantage of quantum mechanics would.
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by gaze 9y ago
Consider an array of qubits forming a register. Now, a cavity resonator’s state can be expanded in a photon number basis. If you truncate the cavity resonator to 2^n photons, then map the 0 photon ket to the 0 state of the register, the 1 p
615.
by gaze 9y ago
They’re equivalent. A continuum can be encoded into qubits and vis versa.
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by gaze 9y ago
Or a good cavity or two.
617.
by gaze 9y ago
I believe that... but the only reason why is they bent over backwards to come up with something that works today, and likely won't work in another 3 months, given the rate of turnover of build systems.
618.
by gaze 9y ago
It's true. Google has essentially made it as painful as possible to use Skia outside of the google ecosystem. The build system is what's mostly kept me from using it in personal projects.
619.
by gaze 9y ago
That's a super weird camera angle. I wonder if it's in ground effect?
620.
by gaze 9y ago
This is really beautiful. I love the idea of designing interfaces that pinch off the flow of information just a bit so our attention can’t be forced to jump around as fast.
621.
by gaze 9y ago
The phrase “what IS it” has always bugged me in mathematics. The answer to that is always “what we defined it to be.” The question math answers is “what does it do.”
622.
by gaze 9y ago
not all that much unless you're in the field, in which case it's pretty cool.
623.
by gaze 9y ago
We don't know. If someone manages to find an algorithm to do such things, it'll be helpful for that. It's as if we're rediscovering the computer itself from the beginning and we're still not sure what it's good
624.
by gaze 9y ago
MSP430: Has IDE and toolchain that's familiar for people GreenArrays: You can use our chips if you unlearn EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE. That said, it's amazing hardware
625.
by gaze 9y ago
Eh good riddance. I recall encountering a litany of safety issues at their first location. For instance... a properly set up machine shop has the milling machines placed in the corners of the room, and the remainder with shields around them
626.
by gaze 9y ago
There is, to my knowledge, no evidence of long range coherence in the dwave machine. The qubits have extremely short t2s
627.
by gaze 9y ago
Cooper pairs are merely the charge carriers in a superconductor. One stores quantum information in the oscillating supercurrent and voltage of a superconducting nonlinear resonator. The nonlinearity is contributed by a Josephson junction. T
628.
by gaze 9y ago
These are transmon qubits... they're designed for long coherence times, in other words, to store quantum information for long periods of time. D-Wave qubits do not have long coherence times-- by D-Wave's own admission. They argue
629.
by gaze 9y ago
I work in this exact field. Yes. It's essentially a thermos. There's several cans nested within each other. Each can hangs from a different refrigeration stage. Typically you go from 300 K (the outer vacuum can), to 77 K (first pu
630.
by gaze 9y ago
It's not really just the size of a 50 gallon drum. There's the helium compressor, all the pumps, the cold trap, the valve cabinet, keg, etc.

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