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mac3n
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
> predicting the electronic ground-state energies of FLiBe molecular clusters

this looks like a problem for quantum annealing, rather than digital qbits. Maybe D-wave can help.
mac3n
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
but, are they pear-shaped boffins?
mac3n
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
search greatly improved in the past couple years. try it again?
mac3n
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
pi^2 ~ 10, well known to anyone who used slide rules.
mac3n
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
It: the McRib? cuteoverload.com? Ska? Art Deco? VB6? that Heisenbug? $3 gasoline? Nixon?
mac3n
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.
mac3n
·14 dagen geleden·discuss
going in the opposite direction, as few as two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon
mac3n
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
the AI app we knew we didn't need
mac3n
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
mac3n
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
Guess it went pear-shaped!

> Majorana particles, subatomic particles that scientists have not observed directly.

i expect they're looking for Majorana quasiparticles
mac3n
·18 dagen geleden·discuss
As a graduate student, I used to rent my body to Science, by participating in medical school experiments. Nothing injected, but blood drawn.

I spent an afternoon in an iron lung, and a couple nights in the hospital, trying to sleep while med students messed with my air supply.
mac3n
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
of course, you're also harvesting credentials from these laptops
mac3n
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
"cattle, not pets"
mac3n
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
Nothing beats coming home from work, chopping something into pieces, and setting it on fire.
mac3n
·29 dagen geleden·discuss
been using this since System 7.

Still doesn't suck.
mac3n
·vorige maand·discuss
> "Our hope is that our model can play a role in a thoughtful data-driven conversation about one of the most societally and personally important decisions any person can make,” he says.

good luck with that!
mac3n
·vorige maand·discuss
Unisea Inn in Dutch Harbor AK

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g30980-d112936-Revi...
mac3n
·vorige maand·discuss
http://knuthlab.org/courses/2025/AdvancedPhysicsLab/resource...
mac3n
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
who could have forseen this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082#48087331
mac3n
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
only started?