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15 dagen geledendiscuss

I've noticed that tech people will respond to an encroachment on civil rights with a technological alternative. I think this is a mistake, because the excuse is presented in bad faith, and to present an alternative is to accept their framing. The correct response is something to the effect of "I know what you're trying to do, fuck off."

18 dagen geledendiscuss

with sufficiently many public/private partnerships, what's the difference?

23 dagen geledendiscuss

I'm super curious what alexia massalin is up to these days, besides collecting microunity patent royalties

2 maanden geledendiscuss

For superconducting qubits, yes. For other architectures everyone is doing their own thing.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I think that's the datacenter with the gas turbine generators that operate without permits because they're "portable." Data centers have tremendous externalities but colossus is a particularly nasty offender, and not just due its size.

Edit: They did it with Colossus and now they're doing the exact same thing with Colossus2. https://www.selc.org/news/xai-built-an-illegal-power-plant-t...

3 maanden geledendiscuss

sure but it seems spiritually wrong to use an LLM to debug a slop paper. Who knows, maybe claude generated it in the first place?

3 maanden geledendiscuss

the irritating thing about LLM generated papers like these is that they're wrong but are generated using LLMs that are capable enough to bury the absurd claim pretty deep in there.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

this paper looks AI generated to me... I mean, there's no experiments to go along with it.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

see terry pratchett's boots theory of economic fairness. They'll get into the market with something that costs more long term...

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I mean I get your argument but it feels like one should adjust for wage growth instead. One labor unit of value converts to a shittier backpack.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

for making research grade devices you barely need a cleanroom

3 maanden geledendiscuss

You just need unitarity.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

There are NO alternatives. There's nothing else that stays liquid at 4 K and absolutely nothing else comes close.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

2d materials are so awful to work with but keep yielding these stunningly beautiful results so physicists must persist.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

7 maanden geledendiscuss

The power of quantum computing is constructing the solution to a problem out of an interference pattern. Classical probabilities don’t interfere, but quantum probabilities do. Loosely, quantum probabilities can be constructed to cancel, since their amplitudes can be negative.

Shor’s algorithm works on the quantum Fourier transform. The quantum Fourier transform works because you can pick a frequency out of a signal using a “test wave.” The test wave can select out the amplitude of interest because the information of the test wave constructively interferes, whereas every other frequency cancels. This is the interference effect that can only happen with complex/negative probability amplitudes.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

The communication here is clear as mud. WHICH quantum systems? D-Wave? We know D-Wave is a joke!

8 maanden geledendiscuss

I have a 556 and 547 that I still use. They work fine. They slowed down a bit from the resistors drifting but whatever. Still very fun to use and they heat the workspace in the winter.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

What's your objection to the tax increase. I think people are talking about it plenty and it seems generally non-objectionable.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

doom and gloom over the promise of free busses is a wild level of cynicism