But they’re limited by weight, not volume. I could just sling a bigger battery underneath

I’ve been waiting ages for hardware acceleration to be fixed. It’s a frustrating bug.

Couldn’t a neurons-behind-eyes human just have fewer blue receptors? Or a brain that attenuates the blue signal?

This is just saying that the glial cells help make this less bad than it could be, no? Nothing about why neurons behind receptors would be worse

Y’all got any stations you recommend?

Have y’all not heard of zotero?

Incredible graphic. The bicep tattoo. The baby carriage. It’s perfect

We’ve already done bosonic sampling that’s classically intractable. Google published it a few years ago. So yes, quantum supremacy has already been proven. It’s a useless toy problem, but one a classical computer just can’t do.

Yes, error correction will get harder the more we scale, but we’re pretty sure we’ve reached the point where we win by throwing more qubits at it. Again, now it’s engineering the scaling. No mean feat, it’ll take a long time, but it’s not like this is all speculation or fraud. The theory is sound

Re: quantum computing, we know quantum advantage is real both for certain classes of problems, e.g. theoretically using Grover’s, and experimentally for toy problems like bosonic sampling. It’s looking like we’re past the threshold where we can do error correction, so now it’s a question of scaling. I’ve never heard anyone discuss a limit on computation per volume as applying to QC. We’re down to engineering problems, not physics, same as your brain vs computer case.

Hostels check your ID when you check in. If the receptionist wants to check that your ID matches your face before you get a room key, you don’t have a choice. I suspect the “flirting” is NYPD bullshit

Do something about it

Yanukovych fled because people started raiding armories and shooting at Berkut. In Egypt the army sided with the protestors. Don’t know Tunisia and Algeria off the dome but I doubt there was no violence or threat of imminent violence

Sounds like you’re thinking of 538’s election needle, not polling data. If a candidate has 60% of the votes in a poll, assuming the poll is accurate, they win 100% of the time. The standard deviation on a population this big is practically 0

You have 30 minutes to move your cube

Assuming crutches work like other bludgeoning weapons, a mithril crutch would be right about useless. Mithril’s one of the lightest materials in the game and bludgeoning weapons scale based on their weight. It’s a bit of an exploit to give your Hammerer a mithril warhammer so when he goes to mete out justice to a criminal dwarf, it’s more of a light tickle than a hospitalization

Reattaching the connector is relatively easy. But unless the pcb itself is really mangled, a missing connector won’t affect the computer POSTing. Can you send a closeup of where the connector should be?

How many countries owning or hosting nukes have been invaded?

Nothing did go wrong, though. If you’re saying there was a close call, that’s true, but Russia doesn’t have the ability to threaten a conventional response. And no one gets nuked for moving nukes around; look at Belarus.

Countries that have nukes don’t get invaded. Simple as

Cool, let’s let them. Poland’s a strong ally in Europe. I don’t see a downside