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Quantum computing: too much to handle(scottaaronson.blog)
4 points by qnleigh 11mo ago|4 comments
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
I read about that here: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup This remains one of the best things I've found on HN.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Even if it's a foregone conclusion that self-driving cars will take over, continuing to support human drivers in the meantime smoothens the transition for them.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Full circle? It's been a steady decline from the driver's perspective.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Seems like you partly answered your own question? But just in case, to your last point: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
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by qnleigh 1y ago
A lot of people rely on Uber and Lyft for supplemental or primary income, so this could be very disruptive if it continues to scale. Are we not worried about this in the medium-term? Also I appreciate many of the random human interactions I
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by qnleigh 1y ago
I found it hilarious that they're bragging about how "AI Vision Inside will now recognize 37 fresh food items, including..." I don't think this was impressive even five years ago, but it's certainly not impressive n
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by qnleigh 1y ago
> Government actions that restrict the ability to privately own or make use of computational resources If the government tried to block you from installing certain apps on your phone, that would fall under this law. Apple as a private co
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by qnleigh 1y ago
> Why include a script rather than a proof? One reason is that the proof is straight-forward but tedious and the script is compact. Yes the script lets you check that the result is correct, but a proof lets you see why it's correc
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Or if one party has a different timeline than the other...
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by qnleigh 1y ago
I wonder if they have more detailed provisions than this though. For example, if a later version of Sora can make good advertisements and catches on in the ad industry, would that count? Or maybe since it is ultimately an agreement about mo
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Ugh just looking at their list, this paper gets a hard no from me. Intelligence isn't mastery of some arbitrary list of mathematical subjects. It's the ability to learn and apply these subjects (or anything else) after minimal exp
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by qnleigh 1y ago
If sodium batteries are so much cheaper, why is the emphasis of this article on batteries for trucks and not grid-scale storage? Isn't the latter much more impactful? Also naively I would expect sodium batteries to be heavier that lith
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Isn't sodium also heavier?
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Yes the claims here allow the classical computer to use a random number generator.
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by qnleigh 1y ago
I know what you're talking about, but I think you happened to pick a bad example to pick on here. This wind tunnel analogy resembles a common criticism of the prior experiments that were done by Google and others over the last few year
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Just gonna leave this here: Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet? https://algassert.com/post/2500
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by qnleigh 1y ago
This excerpt misses the wider point of the paper. The paragraph immediately following the one you quote still does make claims of quantum advantage: "Our second order OTOC circuits introduce a minimal structure while remaining suffici
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by qnleigh 1y ago
The quantum algorithm that would break certain kinds of public key cryptography schemes (not even the core part of Bitcoin blockchains, which are not vulnerable to quantum computers) will take days to weeks to break a single key [0]. This i
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by qnleigh 1y ago
This is quite different from their previous random circuit sampling (RCS) experiments that have made headlines a few times in the past. The key difference from an applied standpoint is that the output of RCS is a random bitstring which is d
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How Money Is Born Out of Public Spending and Dies by Taxes (2023)(scottsantens.com)
2 points by qnleigh 1y ago|0 comments
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by qnleigh 1y ago
I asked the same question here a while ago. I don't know any good reasons for disabling zoom, but I did learn how to override it at least: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289150#45319333
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by qnleigh 1y ago
It's encouraging that people are starting to implement post-quantum cryptography on a large scale. Even if quantum computers aren't built for many years, they would be able to retroactively decrypt data that we are sending today i
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Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an engineering achievement(arstechnica.com)
4 points by qnleigh 1y ago|1 comments
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by qnleigh 1y ago
> given the absence of established benchmarks or standardised criteria The quote you cite doesn't support your claim. If there is no established criteria, then no amount of evidence will establish the link. But absent a rigorous def
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Interesting, I've seen similar looking behavior in other forms of data extraction. I took a picture of a bookshelf and asked it to list the books. It did well in the beginning but by the middle, it had started making up similar books t
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by qnleigh 1y ago
I read the Quanta article on this when it came out. They show the knots, and they're simple enough that I was almost surprised that the counterexample hadn't been found before. But seeing the shockingly complicated unknotting proc
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by qnleigh 1y ago
This is another great question. It's still a matter of debate how the wave-like behavior of quantum mechanics turns into the particle-like behavior of large objects that we observe. Some people believe there should be a maximum size, s
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by qnleigh 1y ago
Yes quoting energy use per query isn't the full picture, though it is still a useful benchmark for understanding the relative impact of one's use as an individual. As for cumulative impact, the ieee article gives an estimate of 34
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by qnleigh 1y ago
For reference, global energy consumption is about 180,000 TWh[1]. So while the numbers in this article are large, they're not a significant fraction of the total. Traveling and buying things are probably a much bigger part of your carb

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