Thanks for using metric. I don't know why they're talking about temperature and heating when the units are clearly referring to charge. Anyway, 9.1 Coulombs isn't that much charge over an area that large, and they should look into using better wire insulation. Or conductors with a higher work function.

The halting problem is undecidable.

I was so proud of this robot that I went up and gave it a hug. Everyone around me started yelling at me to get away and then the robot tried to install a solar panel on me. Long story short, I ended up in the hospital with a restraining order against to stay away from the robot.

THIS ROBOT IS NOT FRIENDLY.

You probably can't see how because of the same vision problem that prevented you from reading my post.
"simulate materials without ever having to construct them."

Hey, I'm agreeing with you. I'm completely flabbergasted that all of the experts working in this field think they're accomplishing something and haven't sought the superior knowledge that you and Peter Gutmann posess. It's disappointing that all of these companies and smart people are wasting so much time and so many resources as a result.

Finally, we're seeing applications of QC that are actually useful. I look forward to this expanding so that we can greatly advance materials science by being able to simulate materials without ever having to construct them.

You do realize they have Mennonites in Oregon right? If not then you should really educate yourself about the nation you live within because it's quite diverse. If you think diversity is a bad thing then perhaps you're in the wrong nation.

Right but what they are talking about is nuclear propulsion. Don't like how space.com writes? You can go right to the source instead of wasting other people's time. https://www.nasa.gov/ignition/

Anecdotes are great for swaying the mindless but how about some statistics on the rate of success this thing has. I would also want to know the rate of false identifications because who wants to have their hopes dashed?

However, what would VASTLY improve helping lost pets is directly microchip reading into the computer. I'm not joking when I say, the biggest issues with microchip'd pets is that many times, the ID code read from the chip, shown on the scanner display, and then is manually transcribed into the computer. This results in a lot of transcription errors which is something absurdly high like 7%. Sometimes the transcription error happens upon registration, sometimes it's upon lookup. Either way, if everyone simply used readers that relayed the info directly to the computer then a lot more pets would be reunited with their owners.

One has to question why Dolby would wait 8 years before making a peep. Yeah, AV1 was released in March 28th, 2018 which was exact 8 years ago, and this is the first time they have ever made any claim about it. What about Snapchat? The complaint states that Snapchat has used AV1 for video streaming "since at least November 24, 2023" but it appears that they have been using the "dav1d" AV1 decoder all the way back in Mar 21, 2019 which wasn't long after it was announced.

Their extreme delay should be enough to dismiss this case but I know it's not.

As far as I can tell, it see like Dolby was trying to wait until AV1 started getting hardware implementations in order to make alterations maximally harmful, in order to either extract the largest settlement or maximally disrupt the competition to HVEC. Either way, it seem like Dolby is acting in bad faith.

In response to Alain Williams comment, "How long before a patent troll magics up some patent relating to AV1 ?" It seems the answer is 7 years and 5 months.

This is very true. gweihir is 100% correct: quantum computing isn't computing and is never going to work.

The real tragedy is all the companies and scientists spending so much time and money researching this technology and improving the state of the art. They could all save themselves a whole lot of wasted effort by listening to gweihir and not bothering. A shame.

In other news, that newfangled device Bardeen and Brattain just cooked up is a mere laboratory curiosity and has abysmal gain. Call me when it has a gain of over 100, is smaller than 10 mm^3, and I can buy one for less than a nickel.

These people have no shame.

If only there was a Wikipedia page abo-oh, wait.
Enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Detection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Do you know how I found this out? Hint: it wasn't by asking AI.

*sigh* I really dislike that a lot of important/expensive equipment is built using platform-specific parts. I mean, if one is going to build something important/expensive, don't give it an Achilles' heel. This is the Death Star all over again!