kirrent

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by kirrent 9y ago
Shor's original paper discusses the fundamental need for several runs and gives the time complexity. https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9508027.pdf The paper you linked to is just saying that the need for several
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by kirrent 9y ago
'I suspect that any speedup imparted by clever uses of entanglement will be counteracted by the fundamental need for error correction and averaging over several runs.' Perhaps you don't understand what people mean when they s
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by kirrent 9y ago
Scott Aaronson still has his $100 000 wager available for an actual refutation of scalable QC. The impetus for the bet was actually from arguing with Gil Kalai in the comments on a blog. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog&#x
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by kirrent 9y ago
To further clarify, any communication would have to be superluminal. Sure there are people who claim that there's some unobservable superluminal background to the universe that makes non-local hidden variable theories possible but I do
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by kirrent 9y ago
If you think real computation is in any way feasible why don't you build one and make a silly amount of money?
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by kirrent 9y ago
It's a useful reminder that incredibly smart people with amazing technical literacy don't necessarily have the same scientific literacy.
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by kirrent 9y ago
The electron is a really cool rocket. It's constructed using carbon composite tanks and uses Rocketlab's Rutherford engine. The engine is constructed using a large amount of 3d printing and uses battery powered electrically driven
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by kirrent 9y ago
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/open-source-release-of-rif...
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by kirrent 9y ago
Almost certainly not. The quantum computer is useful to get around the exponential scaling of problem difficulty in simulating quantum systems. In plasma physics that's not the issue. It's the crazy large size of the problem that
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by kirrent 9y ago
One counterexample to this argument are current VR headsets which work fine despite the vergence accommodation conflict. Sure there are a few people who claim that the mismatch causes them discomfort (though it's hard to separate that
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by kirrent 9y ago
I love that natural feeling of interaction with other people in VR. When playing in Rec Room so often you take a break from games to just have a chat with some other people because the interaction is somehow so engaging despite the cartoony
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by kirrent 9y ago
I'd agree with your intuition in both cases, but it's worth pointing out the equivalence principle (falling in an elevator) isn't necessarily immediately obvious (which I know is not something you claimed). Feynman complained
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by kirrent 9y ago
You don't even need it to be free if you fix the loans. In my country student loans are interest free but indexed with CPI and compulsory repayments are only taken from your tax once your income is above about 42k USD. Even then, the c
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by kirrent 9y ago
I've got the equipment to do hot air soldering, and I flatter myself that I've gotten pretty good at some fine SMD work, but these days I rarely bother. The premium on a service like macrofab.com usually is less than the money I w
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by kirrent 9y ago
It's worth pointing out that this isn't some hypothetical. Kangaroo meat is available at most grocery stores and butchers, it's fairly cheap, and quite delicious. It's the red meat I buy most often.
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by kirrent 9y ago
I think the thing that's worth remembering about HN is that it's far more of a forum for engineers than scientists. The user base here is very well read, very interesting, a pleasure to interact with, and a lot of the time very ob
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by kirrent 9y ago
Not beyond dispute at all. There's a huge number of confounding factors involved in comparing all the different datasets used over the time period concerned. One example is that older tests famously overestimated sperm counts. Addition
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by kirrent 9y ago
There are a lot of techniques to avoid it. I remember listening to an interview with Greg Charvat who said that coding a polarised pulse train with some random phase distribution is a possibility for avoiding interference.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Exactly. The quality and FOV of the original hololens is lacking, but the latency and tracking are mind blowing.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Well, I just woke up. Monsanto has done something pretty screwy here as far as scientific ethics because people within the organisation were angry with the IARC. I can understand being angry with the IARC. Its decision was extremely stupid
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by kirrent 9y ago
Of course! Thankyou, that makes me much more comfortable. ZF+Con(ZF)+not(con(ZF+con(ZF)) is an example of what's sometimes called the self hating theory, which is known to be consistent if ZF+Con(ZF) is consistent (you said much the sa
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by kirrent 9y ago
> Suppose it wasn't consistent. That means the model you're investigating isn't ZF+Con(ZF). It's ZF+Con(ZF)+Not(Con(ZF)) because you've added the extra axiom as part of your proof by contradiction. Obviously you
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by kirrent 9y ago
> But we can prove that ZF+Con(ZF) is consistent Perhaps I'm naive, but doesn't that violate the incompleteness theorem? Surely you could only prove such a statement in ZF + Con(ZF) + Con(ZF + Con(ZF)) or something equivalent?
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by kirrent 9y ago
Probably not what you were thinking of, but the counterexamples to Euler's sum of powers conjecture springs to mind. Despite being around for centuries, it took the use of a computer to find a counterexample. https://en.wiki
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by kirrent 9y ago
I've actually been going through this recently with a series of cancer tests with a high false positive rate. When I was discussing it with my specialist he said that he and other doctors don't necessarily think of it in rigorousl
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by kirrent 9y ago
The example of this closest to my heart has always been Pharaoh, an amazing game from 2000, which looks a huge amount better than it's spiritual successor, released in 2004, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile. http://imag
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by kirrent 9y ago
I think your use of it is pretty clear, but it's interesting to note that quotation marks are also used for scare quotes. Two possible usages in this case with almost entirely opposite meanings.
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by kirrent 9y ago
I think he might, but that's more because he has a very high opinion of himself.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Well, in my country, the government would laugh, and then only pay a standard amount.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Hey, I know the phd student who printed out these cells and set up the demonstration! It's part of the university's push for large scale organic solar demonstrations along with the smaller test cells. From talking with him, the te

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