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721.
by gaze 11y ago
cat codes, man.
722.
by gaze 11y ago
They're doing a bit of quantum computing research and patenting stuff left and right and it's making everyone in the field uncomfortable.
723.
by gaze 11y ago
Jeff Bonwick is one of the best systems programmers ever
724.
by gaze 11y ago
Personally I love Shankar, and can't stand griffiths.
725.
by gaze 11y ago
I don't really see sympy and the like surpassing Mathematica. Even maple is kinda having trouble. If when I'm buying Mathematica I'm paying for a proper implementation of the risch (integration) algorithm, it will have been m
726.
by gaze 11y ago
No. It has the speed of smalltalk and the type safety of C.
727.
by gaze 11y ago
Passing through the pile of fun that is the c ffi
728.
by gaze 11y ago
I was burned out on software by the time I entered college... I had been working internships at big tech companies, a lab, an Internet non profit... I basically felt the same thing you did at that point. Every codebase looked like the same
729.
by gaze 11y ago
What big endian platforms do you have to support? Got an SGI Indigo somewhere in your lab?
730.
by gaze 11y ago
Why would you ever do that? You'd end up a bunch of unreadable rust code wrapped in a gigantic unsafe {} block.
731.
by gaze 11y ago
The main problem is that the product is just garbage and is getting its lunch eaten by onenote. A note taking program that has terrible stylus support and routinely loses data... Come on.
732.
by gaze 11y ago
Those folks shouldn't have been using spinlocks!
733.
by gaze 11y ago
Haha. poop()
734.
by gaze 11y ago
Avi. Literally just Avi really wanted it.
735.
by gaze 11y ago
Turns out that if you bend over backwards and use some libraries and do a bunch of awkward stuff you can make most languages fast.
736.
by gaze 11y ago
Technically it can be. Seth Lloyd has a paper on a way to run gate based algorithms on an adiabatic computer by adding a clock degree of freedom.
737.
by gaze 11y ago
What do you mean dirty vs clean QC? Do you mean adiabatic vs gate based?
738.
by gaze 11y ago
Start learning it once there's a standard programming language for quantum computers. It's so far off. I say this as an experimentalist in the field.
739.
by gaze 11y ago
What's really funny is I started in software (have code committed to some open source projects... BIND, Valgrind), and then moved to Physics. The code is garbage because the constraints are totally different. Experiments and code can b
740.
by gaze 11y ago
Never mind the golden ratio. The discovery of E8 in a physical system is badass.
741.
by gaze 11y ago
Yeah but certain characteristic functions popping up in seemingly unrelated places is a BIG deal.
742.
by gaze 11y ago
Man. What a pile of nonsense.
743.
by gaze 11y ago
This is correct
744.
by gaze 11y ago
Not true. Observation can happen on a continuum. See quantum backaction of a variable strength measurement by hatridge et al
745.
by gaze 11y ago
I like implementing things as languages. I'll probably use perl 6 for its built in grammars. I suppose there are languages with nice parser combinators but I'd like to see what it's like having it designed into the language.
746.
by gaze 11y ago
Surprise. Evernote is just such a shockingly low quality product. First of all, as a note taking company, you CAN NOT LOSE DATA. EVER. I use my notebook for keeping data and derivations and lecture notes. Data is the most valuable thing in
747.
by gaze 11y ago
I dunno what these other people are going off about but if you apply quantum mechanics to gravity, you can't renormalize it. If you look too deep at the standard model you run against cutoffs that you yourself have to impose to make th
748.
by gaze 11y ago
Can you talk a bit about the tube? Is it DC or RF excited? Who is making it?
749.
by gaze 11y ago
The question you might ask is why doesn't EVERYTHING travel at the speed of light. The speed of light is one in some units. We just happened to develop the meter and the second before we could measure the speed of light. These units ar
750.
by gaze 11y ago
But it is. I can have devices that use single electrons. I can measure shot noise. Theories in terms of particles work. Turns out that theories in terms of off-mass-shell particles describing higher and higher terms of perturbation theory w

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