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by wmnwmn 9y ago
They're definitely referring to a real ("universal") quantum computer, not the quantum annealing devices of D-wave. Their computer will be able to run the Schor algorithm, if it is as advertised. If they have 20 qubits in two
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
His first examples g1, g2 are not shifts of f. What am I missing.
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
Love it! Yeah, how about prioritizing the communication of information. And face it, your site is NOT going to be a profit center through ads - and if you try to make it into one, you'll just drive away your users.
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
I've noticed a, er, noticeable worsening in the past year. I used to enjoy doing things on the web, but now no matter what I try to do, whether book travel or watch a news video, it turns into a slog of waiting for pages that won'
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Why are all web pages so darn slow now?
5 points by wmnwmn 9y ago|9 comments
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
I've wondered the same thing. Moreover, math books tend to prove the most general case of every theorem first, rather than work up with the special cases which were the reason anyone thought about the theorem to begin with. It is stran
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by wmnwmn 10y ago
Could this be the first "real" result in anti-aging? It sounds plausible but we can only hope...I've been expecting something like this at any time for the last ten years at least. There must be at least a little bit of low-h
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by wmnwmn 10y ago
What I'm getting out of this article is another angle on the pointlessness of literary criticism and possibly even literary studies. Let's have the English department focus on teaching people how to write rather than how to analyz
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by wmnwmn 11y ago
There's no value in nutrition studies that don't identify an actual physical mechanism for the effect. Virtually all past and present nutrition advice is just superstition. Since we are only just now gaining an understanding of th
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by wmnwmn 12y ago
Interesting, well I already have an LLC that I intended for use for my business, but then it didn't seem like it would make any difference. But you're saying contract with larger clients basically as if I am a consulting firm even
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What are the most lucrative specialties for freelance software development?
4 points by wmnwmn 12y ago|6 comments
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by wmnwmn 12y ago
AdBusters. Enough said.
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by wmnwmn 12y ago
BNW is a deeper book than 1984 because with BNW the first task is to say why that world is even bad to begin with. BNW represents the logical conclusion of a philosophy in which happiness is the top priority. In my opinion it shows that hap
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by wmnwmn 12y ago
It's never been clear to me how deeply the thermodynamic quantities are really connected to time. For example there could be a state in which entropy (or entanglement) increased from left to right in space, yet it wouldn't mean th
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
I felt the same way at a company called RealNetworks, hence quit early and thereby missed out on substantial stock option wealth. For a startup to find a paying niche isn't easy. Managers promise this, promise that, in order to keep t
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
I like Java well enough and I don't know any other way at the moment to make an app that can run both on the desktop and over the web, on all major platforms, in exactly the same way. However it is true that reading a stream from stdin
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Ask HN: Are you looking forward to AI?
4 points by wmnwmn 13y ago|3 comments
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
Trying to make a better protein alignment for transcriptome annotation using suffix arrays and possibly GPUs. Although it's a bit of a lie, that was the project I worked on last weekend, this weekend I won't have time, moreover I
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
I bought a Surface for three reasons mainly. First, it supports Flash, and when I tested tablets out in the showroom, I was able to watch online lectures on the Surface and not on the iPad. Second, it gives access to the file system, so I c
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
I think we're mainly lonely because we learn to value sex as the primary goal in interpersonal relationships, thereby devaluing everything else. There is a linear relationship in western culture between the rise of emphasis on sex, whi
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Best CA for jar file signing?
1 points by wmnwmn 13y ago|0 comments
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
Yeah, you're probably right...I hope...and Java still seems to the only game in town for unified web + desktop functionality.I just don't see another choice.
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
Sorry, I was not being very clear. We're not concerned with security per se, only with reducing the security-related hurdles that our users have to go through to run our applet. Signing with a proper cert will reduce that, and probably
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Coping with Java security changes
4 points by wmnwmn 13y ago|6 comments
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by wmnwmn 13y ago
The real question is why is there one python. Perl was already doing everything python can do and it is pointless to write every supporting library in 20 different languages. You can write good or bad code in any language; the language is n