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Spot on analysis. I refrained from opinionating in my original past as I didn't have much of the background.
I did not know webshit weekly, but it looks just like my kind of humor.
Bureaucrats continue to fuck everything up for everyone. Hackernews points out that Google is full of this particular brand of bureaucrat, which Hackernews interprets as meaning that everyone on Earth is an incompetent moron, except Hackernews, who has all the answers. Many of those Hackernews work at Google, where they explain that they're much better at interviewing than anyone else at Google. Nobody attempts to determine whether any of these superior interviewers are in fact the same people the rest of Hackernews is bitching about.
Cool!
Another one I'd like to see is regarding the pope.
Maybe when the pope will kick the bucket?
Or maybe, less sinister, who will be the next pope?
Two people close to me got married with a similar path leading up to the marriage.
In both cases, one person proposed, the other one wasn't ready. They both waited until the one who wasn't ready felt ready.
The outcomes have been different.
One ended up divorced partially for the reasons that kept them from getting married early on to begin with. It just festered for several years and exploded after the arrival of the third kid.
The other one is still going strong, and the fact they waited before getting married has made their relationship stronger and based on a deeper understanding of each others expectations. Taking this extra time has been a net positive for them.
Up to you and her to figure out which of these two outcomes is most likely for your specific case. Or any other potential outcome I have not proposed here, this is likely not the only two outcomes possible~~
Yeah, always better if bipartisan politics don't come in the way of advancing science, something that would/should benefit all, regardless of political affiliation.
Thanks for clarifying about the specifics of LANL. Didn't know if/how they differed from other National Labs.
Let me know if you ever need some opinion on some fundamental condensed matter questions. I probably won't be of much help, but I can assure you I have no incentives to overhype any of the topics (other than the one I am trying to get accepted by the Nature editor this week~~).
It's really interesting to see how you guys are on top of this. It must be very exciting to work on this with your committee now.
US has historically been super transparent with their research
That's a good ideal to work towards. However, my colleague's experience working for a Los Alamos National Lab has been one of having to sign plenty of confidentiality papers keeping him from sharing his results publicly in the way he was used to while working in Europe. But again, I understand the incentives at play, so maybe Europe should also work towards acquiring more IP while working on these topics.
I don't think having a fast classical supercomputer gives one any edge in checking if these claims are true or not.
Of course, having trustworthy institutes supporting this research provides some indication the claims are not completely bogus, but appealing to authority has not always shown to be a reliable metric to confirm extraordinary claims. I hope they will soon share more details about their experiments so that other groups can try to reproduce the physics and science can advance in concert rather than hidden behind IP from one specific company. Of course, I understand the incentives at play, so it's normal that Microsoft is trying to gain some advantage here, but until they or others can provide more evidence, I'll be remaining skeptical.
As a physicist, I of course truly hope they are right. Majorana fermions have been a theoretical object for too long. We are really living in exciting times for condensed matter physics.
Haha, maybe we should make a prediction market on this topic (@mega_dreamer): will there be conclusive proof in 2025 that Majorana fermions have or have not been observed in the Kouwenhoven experiments, from an external group not affiliated with Microsoft? or something in that sort.
Yeah, pretty skeptical. The fact they had a paper retracted from Nature on the same topic (alleged observation of Majorana fermions, see #891138) warrants extra scrutiny into today's claims.
There is an arms race going on between the big tech companies (IBM, Google, etc) to claim quantum supremacy, so there is a lot of money at stake. Politics play a role too, for sure, as illustrated by @Cje95 eagerness to support these claims (I don't say that in a disparaging way, just an interesting observation to realize that the state also has many reasons to get your country to be the first to win the quantum-race).
To be clear, I am not saying that they have for sure not observed Majorana fermions. Just want to shed additional light from the perspective of someone who talks to people working on this kind of physics daily (a former advisor was involved in the 2018 Nature retraction), there are still many caveats to address before being fully confident about the results.
The authors are indeed very careful in the actual paper. Media isn't always as nuanced when reporting on technical papers...
The window seems to be during my daytime here... but light pollution is pretty bad in Seoul, so likely wouldn't have seen much at night either :(
Thanks for sharing!
I wonder what the statistics are for S Korea. There is a local phenomenon going on here where the sand from the Gobi desert flies over picking up many pollutants making the air quality pretty bad for a few months a year... People refer to it as yellow dust and many will prefer staying indoors when such a day occurs.
Name: SatsGuardian Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/5Ty7eimij08?si=HA3325oxhU1DwWvA&t=5411 Desc: A base layer services that watches the mempool. If it detects an unauthorized transaction from your cold wallet, it tries to use RBF to recover your funds Other links:
It'd be fun if this kind of little tool ends up preventing a Bybit level hack to succeed~~
The amount of building on Bitcoin is what makes me so confident about its future.
Don't remember if i did. It was a while ago. I think i only read books aimed at the general audience on this topic.