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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

It is something that sounds impressive. If it worked it would probably be impressive. But I get the sense that a lot of people, just like with AI, really believe that this is a technology that is already working. Seriously, where is the money going if it's not working? IBM(the holocaust punch card people) are heavily invested in QC and receiving government grants for it.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

Quantum computing is pretty much vaporware at this point, right? Kamala says we need to keep up our investments in QC and AI to beat China, but as far as I know, QC has some serious fundamental barriers that we are not able to overcome right now, which prevents the technology from even being used for the things people want it to be used for. So what are we competing for?

I was reading IBM's roadmap for QC development and it could honestly be the RDI Star Citizen promises with how out of sight and reliant they are on the technology improving at an unrealistic pace.

Maybe I'm cynical and have an outside perspective but quantum computing is starting to look like one of those dead ends that everyone looks back on and feels a little embarrassed by the whole thing.

 

clown-to-clown-communication "The classrooms are full—and the round-the-clock conversations have begun." clown-to-clown-conversation

I receive updates from the University of Austin substack only for the important-high-level-ideas

I'm just googling it now and, talking about ideas, boy! Plato sure had some interesting ideas about slavery. The amount of marble bust avis in this room must be off the charts.

This can't be anywhere close to the largest circlejerk of all time, but it has to be, at least, some critical nexus of circlejerkery or like, one of the more notable reddit-logo containment breaches.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Chunk Yogurt

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

TYT brain is infectious and I hope a vaccine is invented one day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

2011 was a lifetime ago. If we were to be generous.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

CW: Electoralism from a Bernie burnout:

Is Dr. Cornel West a grifter?

People keep saying it but I am unsure what they are referring to. Hell, I would be more likely to believe the grifter narrative if Dr. Cornel West had stayed a Green, which is like the premier grifter party in the US, as far as I can tell. See, I was planning to xi-vote for Dr. West to maintain my protest candidate streak as punishment to the people who tell me to vote every year to change the Reaper drone operators. Dr. West seems like the most well-known person whose views align closely enough to mine. I would not want to vote for Dr. West if it was all a scam. And would likely vote PSL again. I was disappointed Leonard Peltier had to drop out last time for completely understandable reasons but was still proud to have supported that ticket. Which is the only thing my vote really matters for, that I can live with myself at the end of the day as I've only ever lived in red states.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

COVID is a vascular disease. It damages blood vessels and in some cases causes abnormal clotting.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This was always going to be Richard Dawkins’ path. Over the past few years he’s really leaned into it though and now he knows where to get beanis for his toast.

A few months ago Dawkins was calling himself “culturally Christian” to show that he was against the Ramadamification of Christmas in Br*tain.

It was never about atheism, science, rationality, or enlightenment values. It was about otherizing non-white (edit: and non-cis people) people in Europe and “The West.” It’s why the new atheists got popular after 9/11 and why nobody blinked when people like Sam Harris were going around calling for nuclear first strikes against “the Muslim world.”

 
 

Someone donated $10 last time which I greatly appreciate.

Today I am overdrawn by -$55 which was an accident but it's where I'm at. If that could be covered and I could raise $40 that would keep me covered for a few days. I will try to fit some DoorDash shifts in over the next few days.

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I could use some help. I'm not employed right now. I am living with my dad. I'm on SSI, though it looks like I'll be losing $300 off of it next month and I won't know why until I get the letter they're sending. I need to go to the dentist, and I need to contact my doctor to schedule a physical therapy appointment for my leg and ankle pain. I have applied for housing assistance and been put on a waitlist, but that was over 7 months ago. My budget got eaten into a bit this month as I had to buy N95 masks and filters for my CR box and do car maintenance.

Something like $50 for dinner would help out a lot. I am not vegan. Thank you.

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