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by hbartab 1y ago
You could ask: What can I do to better support you? But it is possible they won't say anything because you are in a position of power and therefore they may not trust you with very personal details. It also put the onus on them to &quo
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by hbartab 1y ago
It's what happens when the hype is at maximum. It's really a bubble that's going to pop one day. Remember blockchains a few years ago? Just relax and realize it's mostly FOMO: https://www.theregister.com/
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by hbartab 1y ago
> Rather than relying on backroom deals or dynastic succession, the party's internal promotions and candidate selections are governed by an AI-driven merit evaluation system. Because an AI cannot be gamed? Or because the company beh
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Milei shutters office investigating cryptogate $LIBRA scandal(batimes.com.ar)
9 points by hbartab 1y ago|0 comments
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by hbartab 1y ago
The 150-qubit Radiance machine was originally targeted for Q1, so it's going to be almost a year delayed.
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by hbartab 1y ago
A bit of a disappointment: it sports only 4.4k qubits when in 2021 they expected it to have 7k (and be released in 2024). Source: https://www.dwavequantum.com/media/xvjpraig/clarity-roadmap_...
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by hbartab 1y ago
https://archive.is/YkoTw
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by hbartab 1y ago
https://archive.is/GlZjo
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Missed Metric Moment(physicsworld.com)
12 points by hbartab 1y ago|0 comments
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by hbartab 1y ago
With students submitting ChatGPT-generated essays, the professors are merely responding in kind: if you don't care to learn anything save for passing the exam, why should I waste my time crafting lectures when I can generate them?
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by hbartab 1y ago
Not even politicians follow the law consistently...
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by hbartab 1y ago
> We believe that higher levels of greenness can reduce violence through four major mechanisms: reduced crime, improved short-term and long-term mental health, sending a signal that a place is well-cared for and increasing the use of out
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by hbartab 1y ago
> The authors cite various other studies on remote work showing how it frees up time by reducing commuting, increases productivity, offers more flexible hours, and reduces employee monitoring. Sounds like a benefit to society to me. When
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by hbartab 1y ago
If this were just about tech transfer, in which private firms commercialize public research, I agree. But that's not what Jason Pruet is saying. In the Q&A he notes: > “Why don’t we just let private industry build these giant en
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by hbartab 1y ago
What is crazier still is that so many people revere (tech) executives as if tech were a cult.
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by hbartab 1y ago
That is exactly what Germany did with its scientists in the 1930s/1940s. I am not attempting to draw any parallels between governments or ideologies here. My goal is to state the obvious: such a self-inflicted brain drain has happened
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by hbartab 1y ago
Indeed.
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by hbartab 1y ago
$5 billion in added valuation in just 6 months on $35 million in annual revenue [^1]. That's a 400× multiple for a company that mostly wraps other companies' LLMs [^2]. Is that a bubble popping, or just my headphones? [1]: https:
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by hbartab 1y ago
> We certainly need to partner with industry. Because they are so far ahead and are making such giant investments, that is the only possible path. And therein lies the risk: research labs may become wholly dependent on companies whose ag
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AI models are capable of novel research(nature.com)
1 points by hbartab 1y ago|0 comments
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by hbartab 1y ago
As others have already pointed out, the article has a clickbait title and is entirely in line with D-Wave's recent marketing push for "quantum realized" to one-up IBM with "quantum utility." This work amounts to bru