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by opaque 9y ago
You seem to be expounding the idea of local realism a la Albert Einstein > "God does not play dice with the universe." So you're in good company. However, it's more complicated than it appears and most physicists do n
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by opaque 9y ago
It's a spectrum sure and sound/taste effects would be lot more difficult to deal with. We all visualise abstractions, but adding fixed, and arbitrary, properties (the number line turning at 20) is different and more akin to: http
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by opaque 9y ago
Childhood experience is thought to be one of the 'causes' of Synesthesia. For instance people who perceive letters as having colours (a is always red, b is blue), often find that these correspond to the colouring of alphabet fridg
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by opaque 9y ago
True, I should say the author "may" have Synaesthesia. But the spacial appearance of a number line is an absolutely textbook example of it. The interesting thing about his choice of example is that's what he perceives and he
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by opaque 9y ago
> If I ask you something involving “numbers from 1 to 100” you will have your own image of the series in your head, even without realizing it. For example, I imagine it as a line going from me with numbers from 1 to 20, then it turns 90
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Commercialize quantum technologies in five years(nature.com)
2 points by opaque 10y ago|0 comments
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by opaque 10y ago
and this counterfactual America would have responded how to the partly anti-mass-immigration revolt that caused the paper to be be written? History (and hypothetical history) are rarely that simple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by opaque 10y ago
This makes Docker for Mac unusable for rails development (without 3rd party work arounds). The issue and the radio silence has burned a lot of goodwill I and I'm sure others had for the Docker project. It's made worse by the const
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by opaque 10y ago
Clearly you have your own unorthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics and you are quite emotionally attached to it. The argument that the universe is really X, but your brain just perceives it as Y because of Z can be made for any X,Y &a
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by opaque 10y ago
Decoherence is an extremely useful and elegant mechanism for understanding quantum systems, but unfortunately it doesn't solve the measurement problem. At least not to the satisfaction of most practising physicists. The entanglement an
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Alisa Shevchenko denies she aided election hackers(theguardian.com)
7 points by opaque 10y ago|1 comments
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by opaque 10y ago
A lot of the mining happens there in quite big operations e.g. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chinas-biggest-secret-bitco... (2015), which could conceivably be shutdown. But they could easily move on to other countri
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by opaque 10y ago
> "Starting with kindergarten, tell me about your life." Wow, don't do this. Getting to know your team is extremely important. But, this is a pretty gross pseudo-psychological way to go about it. Also people should be awar
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by opaque 10y ago
Fun trivia from Flash Boys they originally were going to use the full name Investor's Exchange, but the url was unfortunate: www.investorsexchange.com Hence they use the short form IEX.
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by opaque 10y ago
Care to elaborate? TAO ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations ) seems fine to me.
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by opaque 10y ago
Interesting article. Pretty terrible writing/editing though. "Contracting is big business, too. In the 2014 fiscal year, the Pentagon obligated $285 billion to federal contracts—more money than all other government agencies receiv
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by opaque 10y ago
Agreed. They should probably have held off till they can demonstrate the set of gates required for universal quantum computation. These are well known and have been the target of experimentalists for decades now. In fact, what has held back
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by opaque 10y ago
At the more serious end; the quantum optics toolbox in python (QuTip) http://qutip.org/index.html is what I used for my PhD research. Combined with Jupiter notebook http://jupyter.org/ it gives you a great
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by opaque 10y ago
In the words of Phineas Fisher: "NoSQL, or rather NoAuthentication, has been a huge gift to the hacker community. Just when I was worried that they'd finally patched all of the authentication bypass bugs in MySQL, new databases ca
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Quantum superposition at the half-metre scale(nature.com)
2 points by opaque 11y ago|0 comments
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by opaque 11y ago
A good read. Having never heard of the man he seems like an extraordinarily successful variant of the self-aggrandising “arm-chair general” found in pubs throughout the world. Right down to the highly questionable claims to have seen milit