eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
McIntyre or Griffiths' QM might be useful.
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eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
I had the same experience; that's mostly what I'm referencing. Trying to use things like The Hacker's Dictionary (largely in-jokes, bad jargon, and obnoxious circular definitions) to clear it up made the problem worse. I get that it's just a humor book, but still.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
Yeah, it's not like any programmers have ever come up with bizzare and useless names for abstractions.
_wzsf | 6 years ago | on: The “Talk”
> Apparently this was a collaboration with Scott Aaronson:
Gee, I wish they'd mentioned that in the literal first panel of the comic.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: AirPods Pro
At least they've made a new competitor to the linguistic mockery that is Carls Jr.
_wzsf | 6 years ago | on: AirPods Pro
"It doesn't matter how much garbage I produce, everyone else makes way more!"
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
Having "quantum computing" in the title makes this genuine clickbait when the body lacks any explanation of what a state is or what a ket is. Energy or momentum or spin states are rarely (never, in reality) just numbers.
You made no attempt to explain what the two different states in a single ket mean: hint, it's superposition. Never provided even a trivial justification for why normalization is important; where is the actual physics?
Using Rust here is also quite pointless when you're just doing linear algebra... where is the actual benefit over Python or even Haskell?
You've written a very cute and inefficient math library, but calling this QC is just false advertising.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
It's basically a 90-year-old pun involving splitting the word "bracket" into "bra" and "ket".
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents
There's a really easy solution here: just use a device with a super shitty battery and only charge it once a day. Then, hide the cable.
Now there's an incentive for them to learn electrical engineering.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
Turkey is doing almost the exact same atrocities today under Erdogan that they did in the 1920s under Ataturk.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
jacquesm's really disagreeing with the person above you, probably just replied to the wrong comment.
_wzsf | 6 years ago | on: Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
History matters. Where can anyone draw the line?
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: The Shannon Limit (2010)
Still counts as error!
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
Sounds like Rust has come pretty far.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)
Just type "undefined behavior" here. I'm sure you have the time.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3
The second and third paragraphs of the above comment are bound to age poorly.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates
Out him. You won't.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates
Probably the exhaust/escape typo.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
Where's the privacy amendment again? Asking for a friend.
eigenloss | 6 years ago | on: Why is Rust slightly slower than C?
Arrays are vectors.
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