Maybe this is a first for a quantum computer, but true random quantum-generated numbers are not new. idquantique makes quantum random number generators that fit in a PCIe slot. I own one.

It sounds like some people suddenly regret how Apple-vs-Microsoft went, and they'd prefer to rewrite the law so that Apple would have won.

The journalist was clearly invited along for Sportsmanship reasons. The Houthis have trouble shooting down F-18s, so they were supposed to be alerted when was the right time for SAM/AAA to be at maximum readiness.

Alas, though the Atlantic was told a couple hours beforehand, they didn't publish the details until days later!

If we want to give the Houthis a credible handicap, so that they have a legit chance to kill US airmen, we need to invite faster news organizations.

Getting the info to Russia in realtime was potentially helpful, but you can't count on Russian media to be as fast as our western media, so I say "too little, too late" to that Republican strategy.

God, it would make the interfaces better, and slow down the name changes.. Every 6 months they change the name of a platform. is it Xi, PI, PI/PO, CPI, BPG, etc etc.

Even in the same freaking version...

Seriously, what would a literal Russian asset do that's different from what Trump is doing?

It would be completely different: he would have a beard.

1. Print out Orbans face.
2. Make two holes for eyes.
3. Make two holes for some string.
4. Make Orban the happiest most out loud and proud gay rights marcher ever.

Why have a human pick from the suggested comments? Just have Instagram automatically pick one for you and post it. What? Oh THAT would make it seem somehow meaningless?? We sure wouldn't want that to begin to happen.

Siri: "It's... one... louder. Prime. Ha. Ha. Ha."

(No, I don't have Siri, that was just a joke, and I'm sure that someone needed that explained to them.)

The correct way to do this, is to read the bill that Congress passed, and then implement it. When did this become uncommon knowledge?

It looks like this guy doesn't know what he's doing. Again. He keeps fucking up, over and over. How many more fuckups before 25A is on everyone's lips?

You cannot lose a patent by failing to defend it; that's something from trademark law.

Yeah, if anything, abstaining from defending a patent and keeping a low profile, can make it worth more. If you can get other people to use your patent in a standard or something else widespread, then you're set. Wait until it's well-adopted commercially, then surface the submarine and start firing torpedoes.

I was really worried we'd run out of microplastic pollution once we ran out of petroleum!

f you have a script that queries on every word in the dictionary but a human enters the last letter of every word is that enough human input to qualify as 'created by a human'?

Maybe.

A lot of people take Jackson Pollock very seriously as an artist. But with some of his art, it sure looks like he just randomly (i.e. arbitrarily, as in your example) splattered stuff around. It's either over my head, or below my willingness to acknowledge. (I'm not here to talk shit about the guy, but I'll admit I never "got it.") If that's art, why not "The G series" by Fluffernutter? (Where the artist typed the letter "G" after 8 consecutive words in the middle of the dictionary, and then the computer used the resulting "words" as input to a hash function whose output was fed to the PRNG of a drawbot.)

I really wish you had collaborated with me, though, because I think I had a more creative hash function than the one you used.

Oh, he gets to it lower down in TFA. Apparently he doesn't hate Bender, i.e. automation. He only hates humans. Ok, well, that's something. His values are only half stupid, not totally stupid.

"cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch"

Ok, so he'd rather you not hire Apu. That much of a free market is too far to the right for Vance. But what about super-cheap labor, like you get from hiring Bender instead? Is that also too far to the right, or is it more moderate? I honestly have no fucking idea where today's "modern" Republicans (which seem extremely different from the Republicans 20 or more years ago) stand on that. (One of you wanna tell me?)

From my point of view, the cheaper you can get labor (or anything else), the better. But if we change "labor" to "automatic processes" so that humans aren't as involved, does that help my position become less odious to Republicans? Or is it even worse?

wouldn't it be sufficient for the AI trainers to subscribe to the big streaming services and let the models do the watching?

Unless they use the analog hole (point a camera at a screen) they need to decode and rip the stream, thereby violating DMCA. So they're going to need to buy some kind of change to the law, Fair Use notwithstanding. (Unless they analog hole, which sounds practical at first but might be too slow/inefficient.)

I do happen to think watching the video (whether you're a human or a computer) is Fair Use, but it really is controversial at best, and I'm sure someone on the other side will be along to disagree.