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by rsln-s 5y ago
tl;dr: "Funkhouser sat in the rear seat, and Fisher sat in the driver seat on top of a buckled seat belt. <... > Fisher engaged Autopilot while the car was in motion on the track, then set the speed dial (on the right spoke of th
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by rsln-s 6y ago
It's not control of individuals photons (that would be boson sampling), but gaussian pulses. Still a tour-de-force of a demonstration, but actual practical implications are very limited.
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by rsln-s 6y ago
Not necessarily true. Google's result used a programmable universal quantum computer for a specific task; the point of the experiment was not just to show that it can do this specific convoluted task faster than classical supercomput
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LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism(theverge.com)
9 points by rsln-s 6y ago|7 comments
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Over 200k H-1B Workers Could Lose Legal Status by June(bloomberg.com)
13 points by rsln-s 6y ago|0 comments
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by rsln-s 7y ago
Scott Aaronson's three Paul Bernays Lectures on computation 1. The Church-Turing Thesis and Physics 2. The Limits of Efficient Computation 3. The Quest for Quantum Computational Supremacy https://www.scottaaronson.com/
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by rsln-s 7y ago
Unfortunately, the same complexity considerations do not hold for Ising problems. While many NP-hard problems can be formulated in Ising form, it is often not hard to get a “pretty good” solutions to these problems. DWave and collaborators
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Best of both worlds: combining quantum and classical hardware(hpcwire.com)
1 points by rsln-s 7y ago|0 comments
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by rsln-s 7y ago
Some things are fairly universal and pertain to human condition in general, even if expressed in very western framework.
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by rsln-s 8y ago
Yet another reason to support higher taxes and more wealth redistribution.
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by rsln-s 8y ago
Another good explainer on why CLOs are not like CDOs: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/03/16/should-the-wor... Roughly speaking, corporate loans are way more transparent and there are fewer of the
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by rsln-s 8y ago
> Are there types of problems where this is known to be faster now? Not yet. This is commonly called "quantum advantage" or "quantum supremacy", i.e. proof that on a certain (even artificial and with no practical appl
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by rsln-s 8y ago
Good point. This _should_ be illegal. And there is definitely a need for better data protection legislation, to protect consumers against exactly this power imbalance.
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by rsln-s 8y ago
It does
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by rsln-s 8y ago
Well the question really is economic incentives. If it is too hard to do (say, doesn't scale) or can be simulated efficiently-ish on a classical computer -- no one will do it.
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by rsln-s 8y ago
Hi Scott, Do you think there is a significant chance that quantum will never take off (i.e. there are non-obvious limitations that will prevent quantum architectures like superconducting qubits / trapped ions / quantum dots /
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by rsln-s 9y ago
A lot scientific libraries have virtually non-existent documentation (often just a bunch of html generated by Doxygen). NetworKit is one example, but it applies to way too many of them. Caffe is another example mentioned below
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by rsln-s 10y ago
tl;dr "The overarching message is that there is no single cause of the tuition boom. The reason for rising costs differs based on the type of institution and the state it’s in, and even varies over time."