The Conscious Universe
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From 5/1/2009, 3:16:48 PM till now, @mathgenius has achieved 7986 Karma Points with the contribution count of 1473.
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I agree. It's good writing! So many artists complain about their lack of talent, this person is in good company.
Yeah I agree. There's so many details to work out about controlling these things that this is still significant progress. It's like we need an Elon Musk of quantum to tell us what's going on. We are making these just to blow them up, they aren't going to the moon.
It's over here: [1]. James Wootton makes some comments about it here [2]. Looks like 1% error rate which I think is too high to do much with, but it is still exciting progress for those of us working in the field!
[1] https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/services?services=systems&...
Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light
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Wall Street Is Offering 8-Figure Pay Packages to Woo Top Talent
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Modern ML algorithms are so powerful they will soak up any entropy that leaks into the data whatsoever. Much of the time spent developing these models is checking that this isn't happening. I compare it to high voltage electricity: a 100kV line needs some serious insulation around it.
If you are not excited by what you are building then there's something missing. I'm not sure that "build things for others" means anything. But maybe you're just a really great person and want to help others, I don't know. There's nothing wrong with "yet another Genshin impact wishes simulator" (wtf is that?) if you are excited about it! But you don't sound excited about it.
Yes, this is exterior algebra. It's also interesting to figure out how this works in ambient dimensions other than three. The author has a table of grades: 0 for scalars, 1 for vectors, 2 for "bivectors", 3 for "trivectors", and they count the number of bases for each of these grades as 1 3 3 1. These basis counts are the dimensions of the (vector space of) scalars, vectors, "bivectors", "trivectors". If you go to two ambient dimensions you get 1 2 1, and if you go to four ambient dimensions you get 1 4 6 4 1. It's Pascal's triangle.
What's the website?
I find traffic in LA is extremely chilled. For example, on the smaller roads turning cars yield to pedestrians always (at least in the more affluent areas). This is pretty unique. I've lived in big cities in four different countries and LA traffic is the most relaxed i've found anywhere.
One of the best talks I have ever seen by a historian of science
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Ali Express have stolen all of my work
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Thanks for the feedback. Do you want your time refunded, or do you want answers to your questions? The two seem to be in contradiction. If it's the former then what is your hourly rate for watching well-intentioned youtube videos made by experts in the field ?
That sounds reasonable. On the other hand, if a quantum computer dropped out of the sky tomorrow, virtually no one would know what to do with it. So there is plenty of infrastructure, tooling and know-how that needs to be produced in that 10+ year timeframe. And there will likely be huge demand for all of these things as big co's scramble to get on the bandwagon.
> whose power cannot be really removed
Yes. It may not be too worrisome right now, but what if the cryptocurrency phenomena became several orders of magnitude bigger? Couple that with climate wars, failed states, and malignant corporations. I can imagine some very grim outcomes indeed.
Ozy Media Is a Monumental Bummer
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And here is linear algebra as path counting [1]. This is closely related to path integrals in quantum physics. The rules for combining quantum amplitudes are the rules for combining path counts [2]. This is also how graphical linear algebra works [3]. And since we are all hackers here, if you replace the underlying number system with the min-sum semiring you get things like Dijkstra's algorithm. I really like how all these ideas are related.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6RfbplYZM
Bart Jacobs is working on a book that uses the language of category theory to develop probability theory:
https://www.cs.ru.nl/B.Jacobs/PAPERS/ProbabilisticReasoning....
Yeah, I don't see how the colours are helping. It does make it look friendly and inviting, but switching back and forth between coloured balls and the usual symbolic mathematics (algebra notation) is jarring and confusing to me. Using colours instead of letters is a superficial trick and basically a step backwards. It's like those algebra memes where they use fruit instead of x, y, z etc. What's the point? But anyway I don't want to sound too dismissive because the mathematics literature definitely needs more of this kind of creativity!
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