greenmountin

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by greenmountin 13y ago
> The current version of QCL is 0.6.3 (Dec 14 2006): In reality, programming quantum computers is still complicated by the changing hardware. Think about it, if your goal is to do something cool with 1 or 2 bits, it doesn't make se
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by greenmountin 13y ago
Are you sure FB doesn't rate limit the exposure of your likes to uninvolved parties? I am too stingy with likes, but have fantasized about going bananas.
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by greenmountin 13y ago
This is absurd. That's a comment on a blog post, proposing a bombastic title, "Better than Shor". I'm pretty sure if they could get anywhere near Shor using their architecture they'd get more than a sympathy Nature paper. The truth is, D-
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by greenmountin 13y ago
There's a theorist from ETH who also has been working with the D-Wave computers, and visited Scott at MIT last week. There should be a new post about it soon, I'm sure it will be mostly cold water.
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by greenmountin 13y ago
There's a glut of these devices on the market right now, someone must have accidentally added a zero to the order (there was a similar rationale for the Android phones included in EW a while back). Amazon used to have the Overdrive Pro for
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by greenmountin 13y ago
It is kind of weird, especially because there's not even an appropriate label in the dropdown menu for a help ticket. But they deleted mine 5 hours after sending it, so maybe they have a macro set up.
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by greenmountin 13y ago
One of the coolest things about superconductors is "kinetic inductance"[1]. There is no energy in a normal current. As you say, the electrons don't travel all that fast most of the time. They feel a field, accelerate until they bump into
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by greenmountin 13y ago
The more important specification is the MHash / Joule (also found in the link below). The video says this thing does 5 GHash/s @ 30W. That's 100x the efficiency of the best videocards (1000x if you count the power consumption of the rest
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by greenmountin 13y ago
Good point! But that's "1/f" (frequency) liquidity. If the true value of bitcoin is as an instantaneous transfer (and it is), then the chance of a shadow wallet emptying in between the time you received and when you cashed out is vanishin
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by greenmountin 14y ago
People keep referring to Scott Aaronson like he changed his mind, and it's pretty clear he didn't. He just didn't want to be the Chief Naysayer anymore; he has more important things to do and frankly that shouldn't be his calling card. I t
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by greenmountin 14y ago
I couldn't tell if he was serious either -- this is an incredibly boring manifesto. He definitely was ahead of the game on a bunch of things, so I hope he takes some more time to think deeply about what he wants to accomplish.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
If you scroll down to the first entry it was posted April 1st, 2013 (from an article in November 2012). Just wanted to note that for anyone else confused.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
Solutions exist, but no one uses them. You are getting spam because you are not requiring hashcash. They are reading your email because you are not encrypting it. Government and law-enforcement, even if trust-worthy, function via intermed
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by greenmountin 14y ago
My point is that they are missing the essence of what made Reader effective: RSS. Email for updates? Following on Tumblr instead of a prominent hyperlink with the cross-platform RSS feed? It's like they don't know anyone who ever used it
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by greenmountin 14y ago
1) This article has no new information 2) The linked "Follow Our Progress" form is for email updates 3) Their tumblr blog has no rss link That's not what I call serious. I use their site all the time, but it's no substitute for GR, and I d
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by greenmountin 14y ago
Earlier today they were closer together. Just check back?
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by greenmountin 14y ago
This is false. I guarantee you, scientists would be very interested if they actually demonstrated entanglement. For example, in the slides of the linked talk, the presenter goes over a very general measure of entanglement which allows you
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by greenmountin 14y ago
It actually looks pretty good, I was disappointed that there weren't any evangelists listing it in the other threads. I signed up in two seconds by using a mailinator address. It looks like an exact clone + sharing/contacts. On revisiting
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by greenmountin 14y ago
That's true for a negative filter, but not a positive one; although, an email that required the subaddress might be less universal.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
What are the appropriately open / stripped down alternatives? I don't need a social network (or even 10s update rates), just a cloud that knows what I've already read.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
I got mine in late September. Read the introduction and wasn't enthused [probably shouldn't have read the introduction]. It's on my todo list, but perhaps I failed to give him the compounding returns of the buzz he was going for.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
I bought the Nexus 4 and couldn't believe how little runtime I was getting. Even paid $5 for juice defender to turn off wifi / automatic downloading. It's the screen. Went back to my iPhone 4. Sites should really do a better job of repo
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by greenmountin 14y ago
Yes, that's correct. I have the ZCC55 Neurofuzzy. Cooking with "1" cup of rice (roughly for one person), I put in vegetables and eggs at roughly the 13 minute warning, when it knows how long it will take to finish. I have logged in a sp
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by greenmountin 14y ago
I have a Zojirushi that I use from time to time to make rice, and have been experimenting with more complete one-pot meals. I can steam several types of vegetables in the last 13 minutes of operation [snow peas, asparagus, broccoli, brusse
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by greenmountin 14y ago
Is there a service out there that includes the generation of vocab review sheets (many words, defined in one viewspace)? I find duolingo (and Anki, other web services) unsuitably slow for learning vocab.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
AFAICT there isn't anything special for high achievers except for a better "rank": 70+ = Prince, 80+ = King, 90+ = Legend, 100 = Master of the Universe
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by greenmountin 14y ago
I played it through a couple times and then decompiled the flash using the free demo of Sothink. The secret word is (spoiler, use ROT13) "FABJ". Unfortunately, it's just a treasure not a substitute for getting all the parchments...
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by greenmountin 14y ago
I bought a "silent" mouse just so I could do this at work, and borrowed the noisy one for home.
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by greenmountin 14y ago
Yeah, it's blazing fast for me; I don't understand the hate in the other comments. Unlike Bing maps, getting directions is intuitive for me, and I couldn't care less about satellite imagery. If caching works at all, this will be a useful
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by greenmountin 14y ago
Recently, they were seem to have been floundering about with some last-ditch engagement attempts -- game-wide "feats". One of them was to invite as many people as possible to the game, and there was widespread backlash, very depressing now

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