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by sampo 2y ago
> boarding Russian civilian ships in the Baltic Sea The ship that was boarded, is registered in the Cook Islands (an associated state of New Zealand), owned and operated by a company in United Arab Emirates. And the ship's crew were
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by sampo 2y ago
> Many of these neural network systems are stochastic, meaning that providing the same input will not always lead to the same output. The neural networks are not stochastic. It is the sampling from the neural net output to produce a list
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by sampo 2y ago
> Have you, like, tried to write an academic paper without LaTeX? It's only the core hard sciences that use LaTeX. Mathematics, computer science, physics, part of statistics, part of economics, part of engineering. When you move awa
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And Mathematica has this: https://www.wolfram.com/system-modeler/
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> They built a 2.5 ton storage box The article says 1000 kilograms, that is 1 ton.
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The British Sleep Society Position Statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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> It is not clear why Google added [...] a hyped undocumented fantastic claim. I think it's clear.
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> Note also that superdeterminism is unfalsifiable. I think the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is also unfalsifiable. The annoying thing about quantum mechanics is that any one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics
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> local hidden variable models can't violate the Bell inequalities Superdeterminism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics where they can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Superdetermin...
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> For QM it can be shown that there are no hidden variables, at least no local ones If we assume that the experimenter has free will in choosing the measurement settings, so that the hidden variables are not correlated with the measureme
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> I always assumed the obvious application was for Google to make a QaaS (Quantum as a Service) for factoring large primes. We are decades and decades away from the technology to be able to do that. The problem for Google is trying to fi
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> So go back to the 1950s and the point stands. Yes. "Quantum computers will revolutionize computing by year 2100" is a claim I can take seriously. "Quantum computers will revolutionize computing real soon now" is a c
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> What’s the point of quoting this? To remind us of the large difference between the public image vs the reality of quantum computing. Expectation: From the news, people are getting a feeling that quantum computing revolution is almost b
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by sampo 2y ago
> Strange timing given the claim was in 2019 In 2024 Google used 67 quantum bits to solve the same/similar random circuit sampling benchmark, that they used 53 bits in 2019. The discussion from 2019 on what is the relevance (if any)
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'Systematic reviews' are in peril(science.org)
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> There was a bill announced in the US for all new cars to be equipped with "driver impairment" tech which was called a "kill switch". In addition to de-banking, they can also de-car you.
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> Berklee’s songwriting courses are amazing! Some of them are also available in Coursera.
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> Is the problem explained in text anywhere? Not very well. There are some snippets: "to keep the pieces as similar as possible" "The Jacobian r dr dθ gives a measure of how big the infinitely small pieces are relative
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by sampo 2y ago
BSD license gives you the permission to use and to redistribute. In this case you may use and redistribute the binaries. Edit: To use, redistribute, and modify, and distribute modified versions.
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Thanks, Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%(theregister.com)
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FORTRAN II was a version of Fortran in use from 1958 to 1961, then superseded by FORTRAN IV. (IBM never published FORTRAN III, it was only an IBM internal project.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_II
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by sampo 2y ago
I find the PyMC situation confusing. But PyMC should be able to use JAX in the backend: https://www.pymc.io/projects/examples/en/latest/samplers/fas...
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> What are the valuable outputs of grasslands? If you use grasslands for grazing cattle you get meat, or also wool with sheep. Sequestering carbon into grassland soil (or into any soil, really) makes them better at absorbing and retainin
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> "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?" In some climate zones, grasslands do it better than forests. https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/gra
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The book is even better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersu_Uzala
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> After 3 years in the industry, I've yet to meet a single scientist, engineer, or organization who's truly interested or does active research in implementing Shor's algorithm. This is because the current state of the art
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> can we run shors algo yet or no? Progress with Shor's algorithm: year 2001: 15 = 3 × 5 (IBM) year 2012: 21 = 3 × 7 (University of Bristol) year 2019: factorization of 35 attempted, failed (IBM) https://
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by sampo 2y ago
2024-11-01 is in winter, 2024-09-13 is in summer. So the effect seems to be the opposite of what you say.
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US CDC has about 40k deaths for 2024 so far [1] for United States, and 76k for the year 2023 [2]. Maybe the WHO dashboard is left unmaintained, or maybe many countries have stopped reporting Covid deaths to WHO. [1] https://covid
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> TB remains the deadliest infectious disease on Earth, killing about 1.2 million people every year. I would guess, in 2024 Covid killed more than 1.2 million people. I guess many people are assuming that Covid was a temporary disturbanc

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