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by tylerhou 5y ago
I'm saying that you can represent probability distributions of classical objects as a "wave function."
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> Rather, both balls are in a superposition of being both red and blue simultaneously, and it is not possible in principle to assign a color to either one of them until the moment a measurement is made. I don't disagree, and (clearl
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Bell's inequality (as you allude to) describes how transformations on quantum wave functions cannot behave classically. But classical wave functions can certainly be entangled as entanglement is a property of a wave function, not trans
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> it suggest that it’s just a matter of a hidden variable. I disagree. Suppose that I create a machine that chooses which ball to place in each box. This machine makes the choice based on some measurement of a quantum particle (electron
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by tylerhou 5y ago
A classical analogy for entanglement: suppose I have two balls in a bag. They are identical in every way, except one is red and the other is blue. I randomly grab one in each hand and show my hands closed. Now the states of the ball are ent
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Many quantum algorithms can be iterated to find a solution with arbitrarily high probability. For example, Grover's algorithm has an amplification step, and Shor's algorithm can be repeated (with a different seed guess) creating a
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by tylerhou 5y ago
There is also an IARC process that grants you the copyright if you get approval. https://opensource.google/docs/iarc/
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by tylerhou 5y ago
How do you define "trivial?" I've created a new language called Brainfuck2 that is exactly the same as Brainfuck except the + symbol is replaced with a t. Clearly my compiler from Brainfuck2 => Brainfuck does not implement
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by tylerhou 5y ago
You have no idea what underlying conditions the kid might have had. By 17 days there is probably only trace amounts of the vaccine left in the body. Second, you (or the original poster) can't criticize the methodology of counting Covid
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by tylerhou 5y ago
If you die 17 days after vaccination, that's probably not related to the vaccine itself. Second, you haven't accounted for the fact that teenagers can transmit the virus. Even if the vaccine is "worse" the virus for te
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by tylerhou 5y ago
It depends on the implementation. Such a policy would certainly decrease carbon output. However, it's practically not possible to eliminate all carbon output immediately. For example, if you ban ICE cars (or impose a heavy tax), richer
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by tylerhou 5y ago
You're right that you don't need to compensate for harms with such a tax (so my first sentence was imprecise). But I also don't see what's wrong with attempting to distribute (some of) the revenue in such a way to comp
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Evenly distributing the revenue assumes the effect of the negative externality (climate change) is evenly distributed. But climate change tends to harm poorer people more than richer people, so it makes sense to distribute more revenue to t
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by tylerhou 5y ago
My mistake; I assumed that there were other capacitors in maybe a power supply attached to the AC unit.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
That falls under "if you know what you're doing."
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Nit: if you're actually running multiple CPUs to mitigate data corruption, you need a third CPU to break ties.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Even if motor start capacitors are safe to touch, if you don't know what you're doing you might accidentally make contact with a dangerous capacitor. And the parent comment didn't clearly state to only change motor start capa
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Unless you know what you're doing (and I'm not saying that you in particular don't) this is incredibly dangerous. The capacitors in A/C units can store enough energy to kill you, even if the A/C has been unplugged f
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by tylerhou 5y ago
The Discord native client is not a web app. Any application you download can exfiltrate your private key. It's statically linked to Chromium (through Electron), but it's running native code.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Anand isn't a regular-ol GM; Anand is a former world champion. These super-GMs spend thousands and thousands of hours studying the game. Generally super-GMs don't lose to anyone except other GMs in classical time formats. If a sup
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Your salary is measured in dollars, but inflation affects your salary as well. When companies charge more for products, where do you think (some of) that extra money goes? The rest of your comment has some interesting hypotheses (Cantillon
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Wuffs is not a Google project; it's a project whose code happens to be owned by Google. Most likely it's some engineer's side project and while I wouldn't be surprised if it was incorporated into a Google project, it&#x2
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I don’t know of any way of accessing lexically bound variables that are captured by a closure if there is no explicit getter.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> 4.2% CPI the last year, One year ago the dollar was deflating, so this is cherrypicking data. If inflation was above 4% for multiple years then that would be a problem, but a month or two is not anything to be worried about. I'm a
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by tylerhou 5y ago
How much money do you have in dollars? I have an emergency fund — 6 months of expenses. Everything else is in other assets that store value after inflation (e.g. stocks, bonds, housing). > How does that benefit you personally? A little b
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Printing money does not always cause inflation. The purpose of the Fed is to keep the dollar's value stable. If demand for the dollar rises, the Fed has to print money to avoid deflation.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Which is completely fine, because the Fed is willing to step in as the lender of last resort.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I don't think that paper says what you claim it says. From the conclusion: > However, even though we have shown substantial evidence that Duke does indeed possess private information about the student’s future performance, we cannot
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I going to need a citation for the claim in your first paragraph. I've skimmed through multiple papers (including the one you linked) and I have not seen an analysis of STEM dropout rates broken down by SAT scores and race. https:&#x2

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