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by lkm0 6mo ago
To put this in context, we've had a streak of improvements to Shor's algorithm that have put the horizon much closer. In 2022, people from Microsoft estimated that it would take more than 10M (physical) qubits to implement factori
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by lkm0 6mo ago
Beyond the data science interest, isn't this sort of charting powered by the "my time's running out and I still haven't left my mark in history" intrusive thought? Purely from a fitting perspective I'd wager th
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by lkm0 7mo ago
I wanted to do exactly that with a bunch of old pictures and you beat me to it. Love it!
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by lkm0 7mo ago
The segue from "last ditch effort to save the third reich" to "jira and slack" feels like it's trying to say something deeper.
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by lkm0 7mo ago
If you enjoy reading about undervalued scientists, check out the life of Ernst Stückelberg, who missed out on 4 to 5 Nobel prizes because he mostly published in unknown journals. https://blogg.perostborn.com/2023/03&#x2
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by lkm0 7mo ago
This sounds misguided. In the little experience I had, I've seen that models get basic knowledge so absolutely wrong that giving them any sort of independence will not result in publications that positively impact a professor's re
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by lkm0 7mo ago
I was surprised not to see Forster's stories as they are marvelous and public domain. People often cite the machine stops, but I recommend reading them all. The point of it and co-ordination are two favorites
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by lkm0 7mo ago
It is sort of funny to think of Nobel prize level work in relation to blogposting. A couple of examples that don't conform: Marie Curie won another prize. Josephson in general (check him out). Feynman did greatly contribute to other fi
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by lkm0 7mo ago
It's an optimistic point of view. Still, when people use large neural nets to model physics, they also have a lot of parameters but they replicate very simple laws. So there's something deeper about this. Something like a simulati
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by lkm0 7mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I definitely want to try a more complex setup when I have more time on my hands
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by lkm0 7mo ago
I'm seeing the limits when Claude makes some statements that are extremely wrong but incredibly hard to spot unless you're in the field, recently telling me that "some people say" that rydberg atoms and neutral atoms are
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by lkm0 7mo ago
The manuscript has been out since October 2025, and back then it didn't make so much noise. Looks like solid work, but more muted in tone than this press release. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08110
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by lkm0 7mo ago
Somebody's getting into watch collecting! Quartz watches were also developed in Switzerland: check out the story of the Beta: https://goldammer.me/blogs/articles/beta-21-history-guide
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by lkm0 7mo ago
Incredibly cool initiative! Looks like they're going for a trapped-ion device, which the best you can get for now. It's not clear what kind of geometry the ions will be on, but I assume linear traps? If so, it can't be scaled
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by lkm0 8mo ago
Why is apnews.com on the list?
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by lkm0 8mo ago
Thanks! I'll have a look
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by lkm0 8mo ago
So I'm trying to OCR 1000s of pages of old french dictionaries from the 1700s, has anything popped up that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and works pretty decently?
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by lkm0 8mo ago
I'm startled by people who say they love brutalism as an architecture. I'm able to enjoy the aesthetic, but _actually_ being for it as a viable way of housing human activity seems irresponsible. It's similar to saying "I
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by lkm0 9mo ago
To be fair, I also got fairly recently into it, so I feel a bit like an amateur or outsider of some sorts.
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by lkm0 9mo ago
Menard's Quixote is also one of my favorites. I feel it illustrates almost in a mean way the futility and arrogance of analyzing a work through its author's life and intention. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if this kin
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by lkm0 9mo ago
https://dxdt.ch/ - got started fairly recently, I am writing about OCR, creative use of LLMs, and soon writing.
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LLMs in Predicaments(dxdt.ch)
2 points by lkm0 11mo ago|0 comments
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The Year of a Thousand Rooms(dxdt.ch)
3 points by lkm0 11mo ago|0 comments
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Could They Have Met?(dxdt.ch)
3 points by lkm0 1y ago|0 comments
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Future of Quantum Computing(arxiv.org)
1 points by lkm0 1y ago|1 comments
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by lkm0 2y ago
All of quantum computing is reversible by nature (until you measure the state, of course). Yet, there'some research in the field focusing on irreversible ("non-unitary") quantum algorithms and it appears there is some advanta