see also the blog entry of scott aaronson (already old, but it is about the same experiment):

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=...

A group led by Jianwei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, based mainly at USTC in Hefei, China, announced today that it achieved BosonSampling with 40-70 detected photons—up to and beyond the limit where a classical supercomputer could feasibly verify the results. (Technically, they achieved a variant called Gaussian BosonSampling: a generalization of what I called Scattershot BosonSampling in a 2013 post on this blog.)

The problem was based on Gaussian boson sampling that simulates the behavior of light particles passing through a maze of crystals and mirrors.

In the ars article bard claims that it used the following python program to reverse the string:

def reverse_word(word):
        reversed_word = ""
        for i in range(len(word) - 1, -1 , -1):
                reversed_word += word[i]
        return reversed_word

print (reversed_word("Lollipop"))

do you spot the typo in the last line? Bard just showed some example from the internet and clained that it used it to compute the reverse. LLMs are notorious liars.

the same what happened in france last summer when the nuclear plants all had to be switched off because the rivers were too warm for cooling. france got electricity from germany where they were burning coal and gas.

https://www.w3.org/TR/webmidi/

To some users, "MIDI" has become synonymous with Standard MIDI Files and General MIDI.

The Web MIDI API is not intended to describe music or controller inputs semantically; it is designed to expose the mechanics of MIDI input and output interfaces, and the practical aspects of sending and receiving MIDI messages, without identifying what those actions might mean semantically (e.g., in terms of "modulate the vibrato by 20Hz" or "play a G#7 chord", other than in terms of changing a controller value or sending a set of note-on messages that happen to represent a G#7 chord).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The reason they didn't build it was the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963. So the US would have to leave that, too.

It is all about sustainability. Humans can perfectly replicate without any help from another species. Even it all technology would break down babies still would be born. In the case of cyborgs: not so much. They need a specialized infrastructure that *at the moment* can only be run by humans. And even the most simple tasks like collecting garbage (hello roomba) are hard for them. And even if they would have solved all that what happens when a big catastropy like an asteroid hits earth and destroys their main factories. Who will rebuild all that infrastructure?

Is he this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Gravitational anomalies slightly distorting the orbits of some Lunar Orbiters led to the discovery of mass concentrations (dubbed mascons) beneath the lunar surface caused by large impacting bodies at some remote time in the past. These anomalies are significant enough to cause a lunar orbit to change significantly over the course of several days.

I work at LRZ (www.lrz.de) and my main machine is one of login nodes of SuperMUC Phase2.
Haswell Xeon E5-2697 v3, 2.6 GHz, 28 cores, 256 GB RAM, NAS (max 5 PByte for scratch files).
Network: Infiniband FDR14
SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition 11SP3
connected to a MacBookPro 17 inch from 2010.

This is hillarious!
Everybody here thinks it is named after the programming language.

Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Pascal,...

What do they all have in common???

yeah: a car, a satelite and a programming language

OMG you RTFA!!!

yeah you are right! but that would not be sensational enough for being news for nerds.