Panhandle Lake is NOT the most remote place in the Boundary Waters. Not by any stretch. A clay foot algorithm.
I’ve had 100 square miles alone to myself in the BWCA for days/weeks and know the park well.
Since the BWCA is adjacent to the Quetico (on the Canadian side of the border), the concept of remote skews much further north. Time of year is also “remote” ... late October/early November is beautiful, if you don’t get “iced-in” for winter and can neither canoe nor walk out.
A relatively remote lake is Lake Kiana, where I’ve been between two simultaneous wolf packs (100 yds and 150 yards away in opposite directions). BWCA is where Yellowstone re-populated its wolves from. That close to 20-25 wolves chasing deer in the deep of night ... you listen for the “yip, yip, yip” of the pups trying to learn and keep up.
It’s a calculation which proves there is indeed a complexity point whereby quantum computing will exceed classical computing ... by proving mathematically that adding enough qubits will suffice that.
Keep in mind this proof still hints at “a class of problems/calculations” which qubits will overwhelm, not a general overwhelming of everything. At least that’s my reading.
Still this mathematical proof is indeed interesting.
Albert -
Ignore the naysayers and keep writing your book and ideas.
I have followed your writing for years, and share many of your hunches. As did Aaron Schwartz.
It's a bold attempt at a future worth working on.
Abundance is indeed here now, and attainable in a more equitable distribution. Not easily - indeed it's hard work - harder still allowing the negativity on Hacker News.
Gundotra sucked anyway. So does Google+. That's what happens when you "copy" technology, rather than rethinking/innovating. A new player to the space, and they just "copy" - that sucks. (apologize for my negativity.)
Try Google searching on Vic Gundotra "licking the cookie".
(a metaphor for making a project "his" before others can lay claim.)
"Gundotra, we’re told, would “lick the cookie” at Google by putting future products and features into presentations about Google+, long before his teams would be able to get to building them".
http://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-ho...