Oh so... what's going on here, if i'm reading it correctly... is they're limited to clifford gates and the stabilization they're talking about might just be combining the real output from an actual qbit computation with a classical version simulated on traditional x86 hardware.

This is notably less impressive than it could be even if I've got that last bit wrong, because according to the gottesman-knill theorem... anything that can be built using only those gates in a quantum system can be simulated at polynomial time on a classical computer.

If I'm reading it right there's no immediately applicable practical gains here, it's possibly just a stepping stone that doesn't actually lead anywhere by itself.

further, if it is confirmed then there's still a potentially decades long process for them to actually be useful... regardless of the rhetoric in the article.

and they still wont be able to accurately predict the stock market, because some types of quantum states are stochastic and functionally reliant on external inputs not just some rationalisation about states etc etc.

People these days with hyping new physics... they seem to think that every time we make any technological progress at all they should be able to try to ignore conservation, entropy and SNR, but at the same time they seem to think only the stuff with a press release happens at all.

"saying police broke the law makes no sense. They enforce the law, so they can't possibly have ever broken a law".

Are you sure you don't want to maybe think about this idea a bit...?

I love* it when upper management explains that they didn't know who to ask about how to actually do that work, and don't have the skills to determine which consultants are engaging with the technology and which are just trying to upsell them.

Starting the countdown timer on "but nobody could possibly have known"

I'm honestly not quite sure the comparison makes sense simply in terms of population. There are more than twice the number of self described Muslims in the world, and multiple nations have Islam as their state religion. As such there are all kinds of political poles that come into play that Judaism doesn't have to contend with.

I wonder what it would look like, in terms of social and philosophical evolution... if there were more than one Jewish state. I daresay that it's not out of the realm of possibility to suggest that the Likud and their allies would be among their most vocal opponents.

I'm not so sure you should be quite so confident about that.

There's a lot of curation, and if you look at the history of that curation you can see a whole lot of barely glossed over stuff... in some cases you will see the same story repeated with names changed, and the one with the names changed is the one you are almost certainly familiar with.

For example, a simple question is... who killed Goliath the Philistine? Was it King David when he was just a little shepherd boy, or was it some other much older legend that was later incorporated into the myth of David as is suggested by most readings of 2 Samuel 21? Many things about his life are contradictory even if we only consider what's present in those texts you referenced.

This story reads like the marketing folks finally beat a level in a video game.

Maybe that point of view is part of the problem with the industry.

Sir.

He came from space.

Under the current administration's rules, he's not eligible for birthright citizenship for a number of reasons. He will be deported.

It's not possible to construct language barriers that would universally prevent this kind of attack.

Every benefit of using one of these systems eventually runs into a cost vs scale vs specificity problem, with context as a separate but additional dimension. You know what they say about fast, cheap, good... well that might actually apply to training sets and the models they eventuate in too, but with additional caveats.

Incidentally, that's when they work without naive structural mistakes being made... like the current issue of the entirety of MCP having basically the equivalent of cross-site weaknesses.

Yeah, sure... but they obviously didn't like those before either. If anything, they'd now be able to pay US workers less in the near future, even without the workers really knowing about it... because congress apparently hates the American people and is in the process of severely devaluing the American dollar.

For all we know, there was some kind of Texas business meeting where some low level official said something prejudiced and the Samsung reps thought it applied to them... Or Samsung were pressured by their own government not to do it. Or they got paid by China not to.

Many many options... but I don't buy that 'they hate US wages' is the sum of the reasons.

A lot of the time, people who have difficulty with resource availability and opportunity are not even considering something like entertainment even though they are observably doing the best with the available resources.

What would it look like if it wasn't a straw argument, with something that they had to make choices about and needed but didn't have enough resources to obtain those things? What would that look like?

What would it look like if it was you? Would that make a difference to you?
Would you assume that people who implicitly denied your existence were neutral...?

to determine whether attending a public school is universally a bad idea, a local issue or just an unfounded prejudice.

maybe public schools are not the problem.

He has a point.

Samsung don't have to tell you what the real reasons are. Corporations lie all the time, and sometimes they lie for diplomatic reasons while walking quickly away from you.

you ever heard the words 'zero sum' before?

How does domestic currency work anyway, nobody could possibly understand this. Therefore we must treat it as a solely moral issue.

Y'all demonstrate you don't do the math, and you don't want anyone else doing it either.