robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@lauren As a good rule of thumb, a random idea that wants to make social/people-affecting things more uniform that I can come up with is often one that has been tried either by the First French Republic or the Soviet Union.
Ah, so this is why the US has so many drivers -- after all not everyone wants to text /s
@grrrr_shark
a "fun" thing is that, in face of participants who have blocked you/your instance, this is not even in principle possible (because inReplyTo is a singular field and there's no equivalent of email References header).
I assume you meant to say that those who want it more will pay more for it (otherwise, well, yes? people who don't want a good will not pay for it by definition, ones who do want it will pay something, so they will pay more).
What I find hard to reason about in this area is comparing how much _different people_ want something. I can tell how (in a world of perfectly honest and omniscient people who will answer all questions) to tell whether one person wants X more than Y ("what would you do if you could pick one of them only?"). Do you have a candidate definition (or something that points in the direction of one) for comparisons of wants between different people?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/497780/Recursed/ is the most Smullyan-like computer game I remember ever playing.
@mia there's also https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk; note however that it's strictly single-user
@sophieschmieg @filippo @neilmadden @dangoodin @ryanc
For some stupid reason I thought that you can do a few "steps" of Grover in parallel (as in starting from not copies, but entangled copies of the previous step). This is not trivially possible though, and the paper @filippo pointed out claims to prove that it's impossible (as in, that oracle search with a quantum oracle has to be at least sqrt(search space size) oracle invocations deep).
@filippo @sophieschmieg @neilmadden @dangoodin @ryanc
Huh, I don't know how I got the notion that you can trivially parallelize it if you pass qubits between the computers; this paper seems to prove _that_ impossible. Thanks.
@filippo @sophieschmieg @neilmadden @dangoodin @ryanc
Do you have a pointer to the proof (or a way of searching for it: Grover does trivially parallelize if you can transfer qubits between the various parallel computers, and I don't know how the setup of multiple quantum computers with only classical links between them is called)?
@sophieschmieg @neilmadden @dangoodin @ryanc @filippo
It shows that quantum computers can't magically find a value accepted by an _oracle_, but doesn't say anything about finding a value accepted by a program, and so also about BQP vs. BPP, NP or coNP though (even if many (most?) people think it's very likely that BQP is not larger than NP).
Yeah, I wanted to suggest that if we consider water to be arbitrary, then we should consider standard pressure even more so.
I was surprised that hydrogen's triple point is at less than 0.1atm (https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/docs/documents/1419/Hydrogen%20phase%20diagram.jpg)
@smitten At what pressure?
I meant legal paranoia as in thinking that the scope of searches that can be legally executed in various cases would be limited by not having the "more important" phone on you.
Why do people require signed fetch, but allow the same posts to be viewed via a web browser?
Isn't the two phones thing mainly because of legal paranoia (I have no opinion on whether it makes any sense in that context)?
I don't think it's bad if people have wrong opinions, as long as they know what would it take to change their mind and are open about that (that's slightly stronger than "can explain why they think so"): often the choice is between having some opinions that might be wrong, or doing the default thing which might also be wrong. If one adheres to this rule, they are very likely to be convinced out of the wrong opinions.
(If someone publicizes their opinions using any sort of authority, then I agree this is weird, because it's actively harming society's knowledge.)
Handelt es sich um Fragen über etwas, dass Öffentlichkeitsprinzip unterliegen soll, oder etwas anderes?
robryk
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And I've just learned that he's died last year.
So, in the spirit of making people's passing not-totally-sad (as in, it's better that they've existed and died compared to them not existing at all), some anecdotes about Dr. Włodzimierz Borkowski:
He specialized in neonatology. I don't remember how I know this, but one of the reasons for that was that he himself had joint problems that made walking over non-level surfaces hard for him that were caused by some perinatal issues.
He would treat his patients, whether young or adult, as people who should know what he's thinking. Apart from him actually answering questions of children (and not just saying something to make the child be satisfied), he'd point-blank admit when he didn't know something, or wasn't sure. (This created very polarized opinions about him among patients.)
So, something that happened at least once to my parents was that we went to see him (I don't remember what the problem was anymore, probably something related to pollen allergy); he in the end didn't have a good guess on the underlying cause, so he said so, gave some advice on symptom avoidance, asked us to try to make some observations, and to come back in 2 weeks or so. A few days later my parents got a phonecall: he thought about it in the meantime and had a new idea, that he wanted them to try.
@rogatywieszcz @madargon @panoptykon @rcz
To jest tak samo precyzyjne jak powiedzieć, że nośnikiem wcześniej był "kawałek papieru". NFC to tylko nazwa na protokół komunikacji, który pozwala karcie na udostępnienie danych które można przeczytać/zmienić ale też jakichś interfejsów z którymi można porozmawiać.
Istnieją mniej lub bardziej otwarte standardy na (a) aplikacje które można na niektórych takich kartach "zainstalować" (b) interfejsy, które karta (lub aplikacja na niej) może udostępniać.
@grrrr_shark I should go back to trying to discover crocheting on my own~~ I did try a bit some time ago, but ended up not having enough time and in practice postponed it indefinitely.
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
