Roger Penrose was stating that retro causality might explain the measurement problem in quantum mechanics in the last few years to explain how it might work⦠not exactly time travel but that causality is suspended for a period until it stabilises⦠and then collapses. Would look like time travel or entanglement etc from an external observerâ¦

Headline numbers donâ(TM)t tell us muchâ¦.
If itâ(TM)s questions like: list all the words that mean flatulance without the letter f in them?

Iâ(TM)m not sure that is really relevant to productive use.

I think part of the problem is that GDPR requires data controllers to REMOVE data at the subjects request. If the data has been used to train a neural network of sufficient size it may be identifiable in some sort of output, however it might be difficult or impossible to untrain a ML/AI system. So the requirement may never be satisfied. Iâ(TM)m pretty sure this is already happening.

So theyâ(TM)ve finally found out to make consumers pay for finding and fixing the bugs in their chips by having an ai running in the background trying to hack the chip itâ(TM)s running on and silently report back to Intel over the management back channels and then download the firmware so on next boot it will 50/50 brick the device.

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Anyone wanting to use an AI to replace some analysis a human is doing it to save money on human resources and make money from the customer faster.

They'll both come to the same bad advice so why pay a human to do it?

Are we measuring entropy based on space time time or quantum number of oscillations required to travel over a distance time.
Since both of these are increasing the entropy is likely to increase so there is nothing special about our perception of time as our perception of time is built on top of systems that encapsulate the effects of time.

I mean it's a great story but their is a risk that this is an elaborate scam...
Convince enough people that something of value is hidden...
Get people to invest in tech for the search....
Increase Hype....
Start to hint that you would be willing to sell the hard drive if found now for 20% of it's value.....
Take the money and run to the Bahamas whilst the investors are busy looking through used nappies for signs of a shiny box that might just have a fortune in it.....

... can it run emacs?

You beat me to it... Defrag and scandisk surface scan running in background.

No. It will just run a defrag and surface scan in the background and after the 100th run notify you that your ssd is starting to degrade.

I agree with you. It's a question of scale though.

If I have ten invoices a month from 1 supplier and 10000 invoices a month from another then I would definitely seek to improve the flow from the larger supplier, whether it is by some published standard or rolled between us and the larger supplier.

I would not try to solve both tasks with the same solution.

If my invoice load is 1 invoice each from 10000 suppliers the problem is different and I would be encouraging them to use either our system or again some published standard but be aware that they may refuse.

My point was if the companies can't do this at all if they no longer have the skills to modify the systems.

It would require to systems staff of both companies to have a ten minute chat to work out suitable format that can be emailed or uploaded to the other and then parsed into the accounting system.

I doubt this happens very much because the amount of people who have understanding or control of the systems to the extent required is limited, especially since the push to the cloud with access via api and or third parties only and simplified user interfaces which no longer required a systems team. Ie outsourcing made the process complex, inflexible and cheaper.

Whoops.

About 25% of the time:
I log in to my Win10Pro laptop.
I go to my network location in explorer to open my sharepoint files.

I get \\blahdeblah@SSL\DavWWWRoot\Docs is not accessible blah blah.

I tut and press OK.

I open internet explorer and log in to sharepoint then close sharepoint

Go back to explorer stab F5 and it lists the files.

It's something to do with renewing the credentials.
This only works on IExplorer NOT edge.

So essentially you cannot use Windows Explorer to open files on sharepoint unless you occasionally log in using Internet Explorer.

It's been like that for years.

I think won win7 pro you have to use iexplorer every single time, to access sharepoint under explorer.

Why would I want to use sharepoint using the explorer (AKA filenamaneger?). So I can move folders and do bulk copies (yes it is pretty slow) easily without struggling through the mess of javascript context menu's.

I have read a lot of popular science and it often seems to gloss over a lot of issues. So I can't really comment till I've done some more reading.
But the cat in the box experiment drew me to some conclusions, and raised a lot of questions.

A summary of my thoughts (which can be thought to be completely wrong by those in the know, I am in my own belief box at the moment): follow.

For something to be as big as a cat described entirely by a quantum wave form, the box must be impenetrable to everything being emitted from inside. ie the box itself must undergo no measurable transformation what ever happens inside the box. This would have to include gravity as well if any quantum gravity theory would emit information depending on the result of the first nuclear breakdown.

So if two impenetrable boxes somehow become combined lets pick another word "entangled" then the wave form to a "wave form calculator" (not an observer yet) would now need to cover both internal states of the boxes.

And you are now back with the one box scenario (though in the case in the article there are now two observers).

However there always seems to be some confusion or glossing over what an observer actually is. It could be a particle or some people even seem to suggest that it needs a conciosuness, but I think that is a bit of a stretch. I consider an observer to be anything that is instantaneously interacting with an object described by a wave form from it's point of view, as soon as it does this it has become part of the wave form from another external observer. But it now has special knowledge of the internal state of the wave form. Effectively it has "climbed in the box".

On a cosmic scale this seems to indicate that the parts of the universe that are beyond where light can travel from by now (due to expansion of the universe) are in one massive wave form, Until a single photon leaks out to give information about a past state of the wave form. The wave form collapses and a new wave form is born.

If there really is a dispute about what is in the box after two observers have measured it, then there really is something weird going on, as it would have to mean that quantum entanglement is partially broken, which would then solve the a paradox as the two boxes would appear to have but never entirely entangled themselves.

No doubt the many worlds interpretation may say that the combined boxes are from two "different worlds" so that they can give inconsistent results when individually measured.

My 2 pence worth. But I know I am wrong about a lot of the details here.