mikewave

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by mikewave 5y ago
> D-Wave claims 5000 qubits, but that is for adiabatic QC, which to my knowledge, cannot run Shor's algorithm. https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/10/21/d-wave-embraces-gate-base...
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by mikewave 5y ago
The new Grafana alerts do absolutely nothing to help with this. I'm at the point where I would pay 5 figures a year for something purely to do better alerting inside or alongside Grafana. Clicking alerts together is a nightmare when I
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by mikewave 5y ago
Is there any hope of a Grafana Cloud data access proxy that runs on prem and enables us to give the Cloud access to databases we cannot expose?
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by mikewave 5y ago
I'm amazed they've been able to make a business out of this. At D-Wave, we have been able to generate truly random numbers for aeons; we use them for calibration, but they don't have any real business value presently. Truly r
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by mikewave 5y ago
I don't get it. Isn't the whole point of using a VPN to hide your traffic to some minimal extent from the FAANGs of the world? Why would I run even more of my traffic through Google than I would otherwise? What on earth does this
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by mikewave 5y ago
I can't imagine being surprised by this. Fundamentally, the true (teleological) purpose of carbon credit markets is threefold: * Provide the public perception that Something Is Being Done about the looming threat of climate change whil
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by mikewave 5y ago
Wow, this is an old document... > To start your walk head across campus to the Shell station. Hasn't been up there at SFU for well over a decade now, maybe longer...
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by mikewave 5y ago
Back in the day this Java applet by the famous Ken Perlin was fun: https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/demox/Hyper.html Recommendation: Your brain actually has two depth perception systems: hardware (using your two ey
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by mikewave 5y ago
From what I can tell from engaging with Flat Earthers, it's actually 50/50 people who reject everything reasonable they've been told, and people who are playing a game. The game is fun and simple: pretend you believe in the F
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by mikewave 5y ago
More like, ever tried to dig down more than a foot or two? Unless you have really soft ground, even a good steel spade and shovel aren't any guarantee of success. Powered augers are often needed to make holes for fence posts, etc.
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by mikewave 5y ago
Sure, if you have a billion years to wait for it to all run through the rock cycle again.
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by mikewave 5y ago
The big difference here is that CI/CD should ideally be taking away annoying work from devs so that they can more smoothly go from problem/feature -> hard thinking work -> code -> out the door, without having to deal with
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by mikewave 5y ago
I think it's important to note that it has sucked the humanity out of levels of worker above the bottom-of-the-pole labourer, as well; the HR people and trainers in the post are similarly labourers, though instead of using their muscle
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by mikewave 5y ago
> how does one make time for it all? You truly don't - it's impossible. It's like the CAP theorem: there are fundamental limits that all stem fundamentally from a lack of time. You have to sleep, eat, wash, exercise, do yo
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by mikewave 5y ago
Agreed. There's way too many things to do in reality. I have about 30-60 minutes a day of Me Time, and the last thing I want to do is piss it away in front of a computer when I've already spent 70% of my time doing exactly that. G
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by mikewave 5y ago
> I can't imagine had I grown up busy farming and raising siblings and then children in my 20s I would have been able to accomplish anything at all. This really depends how you frame 'accomplishment', which is very much u
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by mikewave 5y ago
One mechanism is to design the tax to be revenue-neutral for the average taxpayer. For example, with carbon taxes on gasoline, we can calculate what the average person consumes in terms of gasoline per year, and then calculate the outliers
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by mikewave 5y ago
There are companies that will drive your "smart" thermostat and purport to save you money by strategically controlling it, but in the end if you want to save money on your house's climate control, you're going to end up
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by mikewave 5y ago
> I don't care when the dishwasher runs as long as the dishes are clean by tomorrow, you know? You can already accomplish 95% of this now with any dishwasher made within the last 20 years that has a delay timer on it. Just load it u
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by mikewave 5y ago
IIRC - fuzzy old memories, but I think you could use it with OLE to combine a few different embedded OLE sources into one document, e.g. a Microsoft Draw vector piece and a Media Player MID into one component that could be embedded elsewher
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by mikewave 5y ago
Precisely. If oil prices get high enough, the Canadian oil sands will begin to be a profitable operation again, and will scale back up to take advantage. At this point, while we're still weaning off of oil - for probably the next 50 ye
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by mikewave 5y ago
That's mostly because of the lack of midmarket cars. I bought a used sub-$20k electrical car a few months ago; it can be done. The market needs pressure to create cars in that price range; right now EVs are mostly luxury cars. Tesla is
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by mikewave 5y ago
What was he driving in '89?
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by mikewave 5y ago
I think that a lot of physicists who are now in their 40s+ learned and used Lisp in university, and have simply found ways to keep using it since then. For new hires, the fact is, a quantum computing codebase is daunting to learn regardless
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by mikewave 5y ago
They're not the only QC company using Common Lisp ;-)
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by mikewave 5y ago
I work at D-Wave and it has been a really exciting week for us with these announcements. It's great to see a writeup at this level of detail, we definitely appreciate Ars' coverage. If anyone has any questions for the D-Wave team,
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D-Wave plans to build a gate-model quantum computer(techcrunch.com)
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by mikewave 5y ago
I work on the classical computers around the exotic stuff, so I'm not really qualified to comment. Either way, Aaronson's negative commentary - which is many years out of date, at this point - is not something that anyone pays ver
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by mikewave 5y ago
Sorry, but I did try this, and it sounds absolutely awful. There's a ton of noise. I don't know if my Pis (and I've tried 3 of them) are different from yours, but a cheapo $20 USB sound adapter already has a much better noise
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by mikewave 5y ago
I work on a real, cold-as-space production quantum computer and its cloud service that you can sign up and use for free today - the D-Wave Advantage system, with 5000+ qubits, that you can use via D-Wave Leap. The difference here is that we

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