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by throw149102 5y ago
From my understanding, the quantum threshold theorem states that if you have a low base error rate (1-3%) you can apply multiple levels of a single quantum error correcting code to get arbitrarily low levels of errors on a logical qubit (&q
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by throw149102 5y ago
My understanding is that this simulation of random quantum circuits is already known to be hard in a theoretical sense[1], and there is no argument that a classical computer could compete with a quantum computer much bigger than 50-60ish qu
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by throw149102 5y ago
My biggest concern is security - that smart contract lives forever on the blockchain, secure or not. It's a pretty huge downside for very minimal gain.
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by throw149102 5y ago
Well, if you accept using an arbitrary model with very little basis in reality, then yes, math proves it. But if you don't accept the premises, then I don't think math has much to do with it.
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by throw149102 5y ago
I would counter that these off-the-wall approaches have become more common with more advanced chess AIs, i.e. AlphaGo Zero and Leela Chess Zero. They frequently play gambits and other aggressive lines that previous chess engines didn't
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by throw149102 5y ago
Another point is that software engineering (currently) has a situation where the higher the supply goes the higher the demand is. Once an organization starts digitizing their processes, there is a higher additional benefit to hiring another
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by throw149102 5y ago
This makes me worry about clock skew and asynchronous code in general. For example, a timestamp might lead you to believe things happened in a different order than they did because the timestamping process isn't atomic.
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by throw149102 5y ago
I don't agree with the conclusion of the article. This article borrows a lot from Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the High Notes" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n... ,
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by throw149102 5y ago
The universe posed in this blog post is absolutely horrifying. Starting off from the beginning: The last thing the world needs is more hero-worship. The idea of a "softwarenova" is somehow even more self-absorbed than "rock
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by throw149102 6y ago
Nothing - unless you also take a function that allows you to transform from one type to another. For example, you can write a function like: S<U> map(S<B> b, (B -> U) func) { //stuff} Which allows you to do t
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by throw149102 6y ago
I'm not sure how much I agree. The author says there are 2 big benefits: 1. Vastly improved signal-to-noise ratio 2. Better relationship with code reviews For 1, in most CR systems you can mark the comments as resolved once their fixed
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by throw149102 6y ago
I've heard before that the smarter you are, the more naive you are. The way I think about it, the smarter you are the more often you are correct about something that no one else is, which causes you to rationally place your judgement
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by throw149102 6y ago
I realize this is a silly criticism, but it's strange that the author would write about how it's valuable to make a lot of stuff but then to only write 11 sentences about the topic. It seems like it would be much better way to dem
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by throw149102 6y ago
I was hoping this article was going in the direction of "Making it clearer what startups are providing for free and what they're providing for a cost" but unfortunately it's just about the wording of your sign up button.
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by throw149102 6y ago
My favorite class in college was a class on Motion Planning, and I remember using the Rubik's cube as an analogy for discrete motion planning problems. It was a fun way to talk about some of the less common graph search techniques, lik
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by throw149102 6y ago
One point I haven't seen brought up yet is that anywhere from 25% to 35% of data breaches are related to an internal actor. Your obscurity will do nothing in those cases, because the internal actor will actually know about the obscur
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by throw149102 6y ago
It seems strange to consider Haskell as dead when its motto was "Avoid success at all costs". Haskell wasn't popular in enterprise settings because it didn't want to sacrifice being a good language for being a popular on
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by throw149102 6y ago
My understanding of the research is that, compared to a placebo, antidepressants help as much as 20% more of the population (20% -> 40%), and the broader scope of drugs can help around 30% to 40%[1] of people. People routinely feel suici
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by throw149102 6y ago
To be honest, I'm not particularly familiar with how a deconstructionist approach to education works, so I won't vouch for or against it. I do see the rise in single-parent households being an issue, but there's something con
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by throw149102 6y ago
I think the problem denoted in the article is far larger than losing a trust in news media because of what people are seeing on a video. Thinking that CNN is full of crap doesn't make young and healthy people want to kill themselves, a
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by throw149102 6y ago
Couple of points: 1. Not clear how likes proxy to "success" in terms of dating. Some people are just looking for one night stands, while another might be looking for something more long term. If women are consistently looking for
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by throw149102 6y ago
Adding onto this, imagine how you would feel if someone said "There are 3 billion Spanish speakers worldwide" But then you learned that only 500 million were really fluent, and the rest ranged from broken Spanish that was enough t
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by throw149102 6y ago
What's going to happen when these 37.2 million jobs are lost? Are these people just going to starve on the streets? Do they have financial resources that they didn't know they had? I find myself frustrated whenever reading about
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by throw149102 6y ago
Instead of being in the possession of a spy itself, it could be a trojan horse for spyware. You give the iPod (or several iPods) to important people around the world, and when they plug it in to a computer it executes some sort of Zero-day
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by throw149102 6y ago
Deaths are often measured in deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven, with a current measurement of 1.18 deaths per 100 million miles[1]. If a car is driving 60 mph 24/7, it takes 190 years for it to drive 100,000,000 miles. Let's ass
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by throw149102 6y ago
I don't know enough physics to give a proper answer, but I think this example is wrong. I don't think you can measure your speed relative to something moving at the speed of light, because there is no reference frame for the photo
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by throw149102 6y ago
I have no idea how a researcher is supposed to show that CP induces demand in pedophiles without running into some pretty massive fundamental issues. There are already troubles getting people to admit who they're going to vote for anon
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by throw149102 6y ago
I find the 7/8-approximate algorithm for 3SAT to be simpler. Given a set of clauses C_1 ^ C_2 ^ ... ^ C_n where each clause is an OR of 3 logical variables, find assignments to each variable to maximize the number of clauses satisfied.
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by throw149102 6y ago
I've been thinking about this recently, and personally, I find some weird sense of empowerment in identifying as a gamer. All my life I've been thinking of gaming as some sort of defective personality trait, like overeating in rea
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by throw149102 6y ago
Potentially, I've never seen a study relating personality to ATP. The usage of "energy" here is a metaphor for how the dopamine system is invoked in the brain. Introverts have less dopamine released in a social interaction th

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