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Comment Re:Are large scale quantum computers even possible (Score 1) 83

>These are problems with theories, not with physical reality.

Theories don't exist in physical reality? The model of a physical system doesn't share the same complexity?

> Your argument is complete nonsense.

You don't get the argument to begin with. Anyway we do agree that QCs are BS.

Comment Re:Are large scale quantum computers even possible (Score 1) 83

>That argument is nonsense. Using a part of a complex system as a computer is not a problem for the complex system. Otherwise you would run into this effect already with electronic computers or even an Abacus.

Actually a complex system talking or referring to itself is indeed a huge problem. See Godel's Incompleteness and the Halting Problem.

>Otherwise you would run into this effect already with electronic computers or even an Abacus.

You do run into these types of problems.. at least at sufficient scale. An Abacus is bad at math where the numbers are larger than the Abacus itself. Electronic computers are bad at quantum chemistry.

Comment Cloud isn't the problem. (Score 4, Insightful) 83

The cloud delivers something no managed onprem datacenter could, ephemeral environments. That's the true power of the cloud and its abstractions. But what ends up happening is developers use the cloud like they would use an onprem datacenter. They treat their infra as pets. Maybe they use IaC, but still will spin up infrastructure manually in the console and track it with an excel spreadsheet. And if they do use IaC it's old, not updated and they will complain their state is corrupted when they do aforementioned manual things in the console.

No the problem is like most things, if not all. The user of the tool and not the tool itself.

Comment Re:The result of social media (Score 3, Interesting) 188

>It really shows how many people have little to no analytical thinking and are just knee-jerk, emotional thinkers who immediately go to their biases and assumptions.

I think humanity in general is irrational and emotional thinkers. What we tend to call "rational thinking" is more of a special case and not the norm. The problem is those who are "critical thinkers" get shouted down from all the noise. Social media has made this worse but it's always existed. It's always been a problem. Even Plato talked about it. How do we solve it? No idea.

Comment Re:That's a leap. (Score 1) 119

In my experience, albeit it's limited, the best teams are teams of people who can trust one another. That doesn't mean you need to be friends but it does mean you need to care about one another in some sense. Why would I trust someone who doesn't care about me? So I find these teams of people who just treat each other like "co-workers" tend to deliver subpar products because they don't really.. care.

That doesn't mean you need to take a bullet for them but maybe just treat them with respect and dignity. Sort of like how you would want to be treated. I wonder if there is some rule about this.

Comment Re:is gravity a 5+d force? (Score 1) 87

I'm not sure it could be tested directly. It's just a hypothesis. But depending on how much these hidden objects interact with gravity it could explain the missing mass of large scale objects like galaxies.

The problems I see with WIMPs is we would have discovered these objects by now. Dark matter pervades the entire universe, they should be everywhere. Even on how weakly they interact surely at high energies something would have appeared.

Comment Unionize (Score 4, Insightful) 53

I think it's time. Probably should have done it a long time ago. Hell, the corporate overlords have been laughing at us for not unionizing when we had the chance. Instead we got free lunches and ping pong tournaments. Well I think it's time we started thinking like they do. You think they give shit about us? This AI push just shows they don't and they want to replace us asap.

And AI will never replace us. It will just make us smarter. We can adapt and will.

Comment The internet is fine but social media is not. (Score 2) 80

Who would have thought that treating each other like objects and measuring self-worth by social media engagement would cause any harm. Like it says in the summary the only ones with the data to back up either conclusion are the tech companies themselves and the silence from them is deafening.

Comment Re:More info (Score 1) 120

Generating the model and searching the model are two different operations. Like you said backpropagation is extremly costly but forwardpropagation is not. Yet the brain does both at such an efficiency it almost seems impossible with current methodologies. Not to say, to your point, maybe some time in future we can discover better methods but with the state of today's AI I would argue it can't be done.

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