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by ssivark 13y ago
Unfortunately, that video makes a lot more sense only if you understand quantum mechanics or quantum computation. The video doesn't realy describe what quantum computation is but it rather describes what feature of QM makes quantum
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by ssivark 13y ago
I agree that the superposition with complex probability amplitudes (fundamental quantum randomness) is different from just statistical randomness of trying every possibility. I fact, this is one of the notions which is being used to verif
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by ssivark 13y ago
To substantiate your point: Essentially, quantum computing is useful for problems that could take help from a large degree of parallelization. Quantum mechanics has an inherent parallelization at it heart . Otoh, simulating that amount of
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by ssivark 13y ago
Haven't seen the video yet, but I'll take a shot at your question. To my knowledge, the original motivation of a "quantum computer" was to simulate quatum mechanical systems (leading back to Feynman's lectures on co
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by ssivark 13y ago
Positive results occur only when those companies are well-regulated, else exploitation is the most probable outcome. If companies companies can exploit and make more money, they will usually go ahead with that.
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by ssivark 13y ago
It's a fairly short and clear article, so no need for a Tl;DR. Note that this is NOT yet another "revolutionary" announcement, but just contemplative reasoning from a respected expert in gravitational physics.
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I don't get it. I got as far as PNG and am thinking along a buried "."
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Cathedrals, bazaars, copyleft and free software licenses(dickfeynman.ruhoh.com)
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I suppose those are the Messenger lectures he gave at Cornell?
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It is quite easy to check the correctness of code excerpts, and implementing a piece of code can mostly be considered the analog of a theoretical calculation (we might make mistakes, but in principle you just have to turn the crank and do i
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I've come across quite a bit of anecdotal evidence as blog posts (Damn it, can't find the links now) and scientists will often confess to being biased about prestige while reading articles . It's also probably the reason why
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> PDFs are viewable in the browser and resizeable. They are operating system agnostic. Most importantly, they preserve the formatting that the original author intended. So are most webpages. > Just that most paper authors will not be
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by ssivark 13y ago
As a grad student who reads lots of papers (with a typical length of 30+ pages), I too have a strong opinion on this. I think PDFs do not serve the needs of the day and such efforts are a step in the right direction. PDFs okay if you plan t
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by ssivark 15y ago
I know a li'l bit of physics, so I'll add my two cents. Most such articles (including this one) are overly hyped. While the findings might be interesting to another theoretical physicist working in the same area, it's a long while before su