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by krastanov 3y ago
I do not know what to tell you, I have never had any of the problems you list (I live in the Northeast, but I doubt that matters). Apple-sized things have little stickers, smaller things are batched with a barcode, and when somehow these fa
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by krastanov 3y ago
Or just type the name of the vegetable or just copy the 4-digit code on the sticker attached to the vegetable. At least in the US there is no problem with buying vegetables in self-checkout.
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by krastanov 3y ago
It is much better for working with (a) low-rank approximations and (b) optimizing the order of operations. While (b) is "merely" a question of computational performance, (a) can have extremely important fundamental/theoretica
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by krastanov 3y ago
Firefox out of the box indeed does not cause broken websites. However, the demographic of this forum probably will use Firefox with "Multi-Account Containers", "Temporary Containers", "uBlock Origin", and a few
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by krastanov 3y ago
It is a bit shorter and a bit taller than a Prius, which is why I reacted with surprise above (this does not seem "small" to me).
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by krastanov 3y ago
It is a bit of a culture shock for me to see someone describing this car as "small" (how I understand "econoboxes"). This car is far from small.
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by krastanov 3y ago
This is very neat, but these days I am truly enamoured with "reactive" notebooks. They are rather orthogonal to the concern here. Reactive notebooks automatically build a dependency tree between cells. When you edit a cell, all ce
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by krastanov 3y ago
Are "humans that walk" and "people that sing" incorrect in some versions of English? I am a foreigner who is relatively good at English, but I do not remember seeing this prescription in textbooks or style guides. On the
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by krastanov 3y ago
Another option, that manages versioning of your computational graph and its results and provides extremely elegant query-able memoization is Mandala https://github.com/amakelov/mandala It is a much simpler and much mor
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by krastanov 3y ago
Just FYI, while I share the overall sentiment, I think you are not up to date on the socialization aspect of homeschooling. Typical homeschooling today includes activities where most homeschooled kids from the town gather together for PE or
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by krastanov 3y ago
AI is a pretty recent and small part of the fields that use arxiv as a preprint server.
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by krastanov 3y ago
I partially agree, and I can enumerate other issues with peer review that you have not listed, but it is worthwhile to point out some of the positive features of the peer review concept: - Peer review in reputable non-profit journals actual
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by krastanov 3y ago
There are a ton of "quantum software" companies that present themselves as consultants that can provide unique computational capabilities to your business once there is quantum hardware which can run that software. All of them sel
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by krastanov 3y ago
I believe there are a couple of misconceptions in your first paragraph (but it is also plausible that both of us are talking past each other due to the lack of rigor in our posts). Either way, here is my attempt at what I believe is a corre
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by krastanov 3y ago
WiFi, 5G, PCIe, Ethernet, QR codes, and pretty much any other classical communication protocol uses error correcting codes where classical bits need to be sent in blocks, e.g. for PCIe6, blocks of 256 physical bytes are sent, but only 242 o
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by krastanov 3y ago
I do not think I follow your last two sentences. Both for bits and for qubits, two-bit gates are required (e.g. NAND for classical and CNOT for quantum). The bits/qubits need to interact for such a gate to happen and should be isolated
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by krastanov 3y ago
With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to agree with what you say. But from the point of view of the scientists creating the first classical computers, classical fault-tolerance seemed just as difficult to them as quantum fault-tolerant
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by krastanov 3y ago
But the exponential cost (the need to describe the "whole") is there in the classical case too. To describe a set of classical bits completely, you need a probability distribution over the whole system (including possible classica
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by krastanov 3y ago
Doesn't your argument apply to classical bits too? The more interconnected a classical bit is, the more parasitic coupling it will experience. That used to be an argument used against the feasibility of classical computers in the 40s (
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by krastanov 3y ago
Fair point, but I am surprised to hear that. My US friends (New England) have been extremely surprised when they hear that foraging for mushrooms is common where I come from (on the rare occasions when this comes up).
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by krastanov 3y ago
It is very much an old wives tale. I was not trying to make it sound otherwise. It is just representative of the attitude locals have to foraging: it is popular, but it is understood to be dangerous and mishaps still happen.
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by krastanov 3y ago
You are reading too much in what I said. Of course weird things are happening in an unstable dictatorship like Russia and this guy might have been assassinated for one reason or another. That does not mean it is not nice to give people cont
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by krastanov 3y ago
This is not remotely what the "common knowledge" about mushroom foraging is in Eastern Europe. There is a "funny" story in Bulgaria how the most famous mushroom foraging expert in Bulgaria a few decades ago died because
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by krastanov 3y ago
The vast majority of literature on the subject that I have seen uses drawings, not pictures... Probably part of the reason why this hobby has the reputation of killing people (in my country, Bulgaria, during the 90s and 00s). Not really ans
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by krastanov 3y ago
Wild mushroom foraging is pretty common in Eastern Europe. Warnings about it in elementary school was why I was scared of eating mushrooms for a decade (admittedly a rather childish overreaction ;). Every few years I will hear about someone
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by krastanov 3y ago
Generalizing so much about Europeans is just as offensive of a fallacy as generalizing about US citizens.
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by krastanov 3y ago
Statistical mechanics needs to assume the existence of atoms to give you the results of Carnot's. Carnot's thermodynamics does not. That makes it a bit less straightforward to say one strictly follows from the other. Otherwise the
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by krastanov 3y ago
Indeed, this type of "surprises" is how you know you are probably on the right track with your choice of abstraction. But I still find the word "surprise" reasonable for the emotion I feel when I observe something like t
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by krastanov 3y ago
I will be a bit sloppy with my description here: There are two ways to "prove" thermodinamics. You can start from the axioms of probability and statistics *together* with an assumption that matter is made out of atoms or similar c
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by krastanov 3y ago
Reusable orbital vehicles comes to mind as another current example. At least "mostly reusable".

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