n^n^n^n^n^n is an upper bound for general n, but the special case of only 2 people can be done with just 1 query. the algorithm is just to have person A cut into two equal slices and then person B choose their favorite…
does anyone know if you could take a window and make it always be in the background -- the reverse of "always on top", say "always on bottom"? doesn't seem to be an option on Mac or in Gnome that I can tell but maybe…
looks great. wish I could break it free from the browser though. a browser tab can't really be the backdrop to my work, and clicking into a browser tab just to view the visualization is an extra distraction -- defeating…
In the long term, if we eventually make it to the scenario where we stop putting CO2 into the atmosphere on net, then each kg of CO2 input into the atmosphere must be compensated by a kg of CO2 removed by some mechanism…
how do you know the passionate to the point of addiction Yang supporters are real? I think its likely that many are, but that there are also many passionate supporters of the other candidates who just lurk on Twitter…
There seems to be a lot of confusion here about the complexity, for example calling the simulation here "in the linear regime" due to IBMs result. This is inaccurate. A source of this confusion is that we need to…
No. I think this is where your logic is off: "Furthermore, I think that if I try to read an entangled state, it's as if I am reading the entire state all at once" You can't read the entire state. A quantum channel where…
> The climate change argument for EVs is kind of weak, since you still have to produce the electricity I also find this line of reasoning problematic. The climate change effect of EVs is _indirect_, but that doesn't…
has anybody proved something interesting in Lean? Perhaps not too difficult, but some proposition that might take a couple of days of work done in hours? I'm all for encoding foundations in a programmatic framework, but…
In a sense, wasn't the choice to not negotiate drug costs itself the result of a negotiation? I believe the way it works is that health insurers and providers threaten to fund fear-mongering attack ads against…
There's additional piece to this that you are missing: while the classical simulation is _hard_ (i.e. increasingly hard for larger and larger number of qubits or circuit depths), it _can_ be computed with enough…
They explain in the paper that the quantity plotted in Fig. 4 can also be interpreted as a probability of zero errors of running the circuit. You can see that it goes down quickly with number of qubits and number of…
I'm not an expert, but you are correct in that there is no error correction here, and error correction is still a long way off. Around 2016, realizing that running useful quantum algorithms was a long way away and there…
The quantum states only have discrete frequencies because they are bound states contained within a trap. If you consider H = p^2/2m, a free particle, the frequencies are continuous. The universe isn't a trap.
name was edited from "unreasonable effectiveness of CNN in genetic population" after I read it but before my comment was finished.
no examples of "unreasonable effectiveness" or even "effectiveness" are given; just a semi-plausible technique and some questions that might be worth answering. I hope the term doesn't get diluted with more examples…
It collapses the second narrative, but not the first. It could still be that drug money was the driving force behind the cartels, but after they grew to sufficient size, the cartels could sustain themselves otherwise.…
Cool! Could this be used to make on-disk DataFrames that store arbitrary Julia types? Serializing/deserializing such dataframes with JLD has given me lots of trouble (both too slow and also sometimes the files get…
I wanted to like Simple. But the budgeting and money tracking features were never really that useful, I needed checks, and my card number was stolen and used to purchase groceries in another state even though I had only…
The radius of the biggest black hole that would have evaporated by now is about a femtometer, or the size of a proton.
Reasonable sized black holes evaporate extremely slowly. A black hole the mass of the moon would take 10^45 years to evaporate, so none would have evaporated yet in the lifetime of this universe which is about 1.4*10^10…
memoization is a common use case. If you are doing an expensive computation that gives the same answer for the the same inputs, you can build a lookup table for cases you have already encountered to avoid recomputing.…
Neither unitary or hermitian means that operators are there own inverse. Unitary here means that the inverse is the same as the complex transpose - which means that there is an inverse and it is easy to find. This is…
Why would any society that had lost all access to Asimovs foundation trilogy retain the knowledge to read one of these disks?
Often (in the scientific computing communities that I am in) large tensor contractions are done by reshaping tensors into matrices, transposing, and using matrix multiplication. The contraction time can change…
n^n^n^n^n^n is an upper bound for general n, but the special case of only 2 people can be done with just 1 query. the algorithm is just to have person A cut into two equal slices and then person B choose their favorite…
does anyone know if you could take a window and make it always be in the background -- the reverse of "always on top", say "always on bottom"? doesn't seem to be an option on Mac or in Gnome that I can tell but maybe…
looks great. wish I could break it free from the browser though. a browser tab can't really be the backdrop to my work, and clicking into a browser tab just to view the visualization is an extra distraction -- defeating…
In the long term, if we eventually make it to the scenario where we stop putting CO2 into the atmosphere on net, then each kg of CO2 input into the atmosphere must be compensated by a kg of CO2 removed by some mechanism…
how do you know the passionate to the point of addiction Yang supporters are real? I think its likely that many are, but that there are also many passionate supporters of the other candidates who just lurk on Twitter…
There seems to be a lot of confusion here about the complexity, for example calling the simulation here "in the linear regime" due to IBMs result. This is inaccurate. A source of this confusion is that we need to…
No. I think this is where your logic is off: "Furthermore, I think that if I try to read an entangled state, it's as if I am reading the entire state all at once" You can't read the entire state. A quantum channel where…
> The climate change argument for EVs is kind of weak, since you still have to produce the electricity I also find this line of reasoning problematic. The climate change effect of EVs is _indirect_, but that doesn't…
has anybody proved something interesting in Lean? Perhaps not too difficult, but some proposition that might take a couple of days of work done in hours? I'm all for encoding foundations in a programmatic framework, but…
In a sense, wasn't the choice to not negotiate drug costs itself the result of a negotiation? I believe the way it works is that health insurers and providers threaten to fund fear-mongering attack ads against…
There's additional piece to this that you are missing: while the classical simulation is _hard_ (i.e. increasingly hard for larger and larger number of qubits or circuit depths), it _can_ be computed with enough…
They explain in the paper that the quantity plotted in Fig. 4 can also be interpreted as a probability of zero errors of running the circuit. You can see that it goes down quickly with number of qubits and number of…
I'm not an expert, but you are correct in that there is no error correction here, and error correction is still a long way off. Around 2016, realizing that running useful quantum algorithms was a long way away and there…
The quantum states only have discrete frequencies because they are bound states contained within a trap. If you consider H = p^2/2m, a free particle, the frequencies are continuous. The universe isn't a trap.
name was edited from "unreasonable effectiveness of CNN in genetic population" after I read it but before my comment was finished.
no examples of "unreasonable effectiveness" or even "effectiveness" are given; just a semi-plausible technique and some questions that might be worth answering. I hope the term doesn't get diluted with more examples…
It collapses the second narrative, but not the first. It could still be that drug money was the driving force behind the cartels, but after they grew to sufficient size, the cartels could sustain themselves otherwise.…
Cool! Could this be used to make on-disk DataFrames that store arbitrary Julia types? Serializing/deserializing such dataframes with JLD has given me lots of trouble (both too slow and also sometimes the files get…
I wanted to like Simple. But the budgeting and money tracking features were never really that useful, I needed checks, and my card number was stolen and used to purchase groceries in another state even though I had only…
The radius of the biggest black hole that would have evaporated by now is about a femtometer, or the size of a proton.
Reasonable sized black holes evaporate extremely slowly. A black hole the mass of the moon would take 10^45 years to evaporate, so none would have evaporated yet in the lifetime of this universe which is about 1.4*10^10…
memoization is a common use case. If you are doing an expensive computation that gives the same answer for the the same inputs, you can build a lookup table for cases you have already encountered to avoid recomputing.…
Neither unitary or hermitian means that operators are there own inverse. Unitary here means that the inverse is the same as the complex transpose - which means that there is an inverse and it is easy to find. This is…
Why would any society that had lost all access to Asimovs foundation trilogy retain the knowledge to read one of these disks?
Often (in the scientific computing communities that I am in) large tensor contractions are done by reshaping tensors into matrices, transposing, and using matrix multiplication. The contraction time can change…