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 No.5873[Reply]

how come it seems like no progress has been made? we keep hearing about research but it seems like we never get to see any results. what gives?
what even is quantum computing anyway?
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 No.5893

>>5883
>superposition, or the ability to operate on many qubits at the same time instead of consecutively on bits as it is in computers
so what does that mean from a programming point of view? in what specific way does that effect the time complexity of an algorithm?
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 No.5894

>>5893
Imagine a rat trying to find a way out of a maze. The classical way, the rat has to go all the way down a path, and only after hitting a dead end can it then try checking another path. A quantum rat can go down every path simultaneously, solving the maze much faster
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 No.5896

>>5893

>>5894 is a pretty good explanation tbh. it's also why right now google, ibm, et al. are measuring their successes in building a quantum computer by its quantum volume, a number that takes into account both amount of qubits and its effective error rate, because every qubit that is added and can operate relatively error free theoretically increases the capability to operate on data exponentially by allowing larger data structures. then all you need is an actual algorithm that can take advantage of this capability in a way that makes it more efficient than classical computers.

as >>5894 said pathfinding is one example of a problem that might benefit from this, so in complexity terms if we take A* (which worst case can get polynomial cost in bounded tree) and compare it to say a quantum binary tree search then, assuming there are enough qubits with a negligible error rate, you would get at least an exponential speed up.

pathfinding of course is fairly unique here because its memory bounded first and foremost, and every attempt at a quantum pathfinding algorithm i know of currently uses a qubit per pathing decision for example, so on large enough paths this really does exhaust capabilities of current quantum computers if you take into account that the "best" quantum computers (google, ibm) at the moment have around 50 qubits. ibm is "planning for a 1000 qubit computer by 2023" but right now this is just big words.

but to generalise it: if you are working on an algorithm that requires finding the correct state in a large state space, then quantum will in general offer (usually) an exponential kind of speed up there. and this is before we get to unique solutions that use entanglement like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
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 No.6001

Can't wait for quantum computers to decrypt all logged tor traffic that passed through CIA-owned nodes.
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 No.6004

Haskell and Ocaml are the only programming languages I use.


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 No.5976[Reply]

>hides your face from coppers
>no more facial recognition
>aesthetic
THANK YOU CORONA-CHAN
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 No.5979

white people hate wearimg masks, they'll get rid of them soon when the vaccines come out
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 No.5998

True, this is eternally based
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 No.5999

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>>>/b/

I'm glad I no longer get weird looks from visitors
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 No.6000

The pandemic happened a month after my country approved a law that was made to stop protesters from covering their faces. Pretty funny.


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 No.5250[Reply]

Do we need a leftist Luke Smith?
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 No.5818

hahahahahah the absolute state of leftypol
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 No.5826

>>5815
he just does whatever /g/ thinks is cool. nothing about him is intelligent or groundbreaking.
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 No.5981

>>5815
Go listen to some of the podcasts he's done, he's some kind of Tradchrist-monarchist freak living on land he bought using a gift from a rich family member and memeing about technology he doesn't really understand (I'll make my dotfiles reference the regular user account as SU so I never have to enter a password, this is a good idea lmao) to idiots that think being cool is hipster software + edgy jokes

Literally a soyboi living off of daddy's money and youtube bucks larping as ted, could you be more pathetic?
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 No.5982

>>5250
Potentially. What does the left Luke Smith (LLS) do differently?
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 No.5985

>>5981
also flirting with antisemitism


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 No.5933[Reply]

>There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out.
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/
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 No.5936

The worst thing about phones is that the only way to win is to not play at all.
https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
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 No.5939

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 No.5951

>There are 160 apps on my phone
Holy AIDS
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 No.5977

>>5936
Closest I've gotten is LineageOS without gapps


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 No.5832[Reply]

Amazon is using union-busting Pinkerton spies to track warehouse workers and labor movements at the company, according to a new report
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pinkerton-spies-worker-labor-unions-2020-11
https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/amazon-reportedly-hired-pinkerton-spies-to-monitor-unionization-efforts/

Holy lol.
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 No.5940

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 No.5941

>>5832
Pinkertons?
well well well, its cowboy time
C)>:(
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 No.5944

>>5940
HN is such a disgusting community.
>Oh, guess I'll stop buying from Amazon now
>Umm it's voluntary exchange
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 No.5950

>>5944
For a place called Hackernews they're filled with lolbertarians with a cucked mentality.
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 No.5978

>>5950
What's alternative to it?


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 No.5920[Reply]

Mozilla shoots itself in the foot again to please its overlords at Google.

>I came across this video recently, in which Mozilla add-on developers talk about the implementation of the new "DeclarativeNetRequest" feature that Google intends to use in order to replace the current "block WebRequest" used in Manifest V2 by pretty much any content blocker worth of it's name. The video is only 3 weeks old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpDFS-GUytg

>To summarize the important bit of the video, Mozilla is planning to adopt the new functionality without replacing the current one, essentially to ensure compatibility between add-ons in Chrome and Firefox while also maintaining the content blocker functionality.
>However they are very careful to always say, wether in this video or in the corresponding blog posts, that they will support blocking WebRequest "for now", or "we don't have any IMMEDIATE plans to remove content blocking capabilities" which concerns me, because they are definitely going to implement DNR in the future, even if only at browser start up at first.
>The fact that they don't give us a definitive answer regarding content blocking features is a big concern. Surfing the web without UBO is…unthinkable at this point.
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/k4lyvi/discussion_progress_of_manifest_v3_for_firefox/
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 No.5942

Opera GX gang represent
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 No.5943

Firefox is controlled opposition.
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 No.5945

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Just imagine if they had done this shit while they were the underdog to Internet Explorer.
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 No.5946

they havent done anything yet
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 No.5948

>>5946
False, they've done A LOT of dumb shit over the years.


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 No.5891[Reply]

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 No.5947

>>5891
Xenocara is pretty nice, no need to run as root.
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 No.5949

Make WAY for WAYLAND.


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 No.5888[Reply]

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 No.5926

>>5922
Also, the patent submission date is pure schizo magnet.
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 No.5930

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I love technology
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 No.5934

>>5922
Real life tends to be worse than fiction.

>Personality Traits Can Now Be Predicted Using Smartphone Data

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/27332/20200917/personality-traits-predict-smartphone-data.htm

Unironically GET OFF YA DAMN PHONE.
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 No.5935

>>5934
See also >>5933
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 No.5952

>>5934
The headline made me think they could do all that just by you carrying a smartphone but it's an analysis of heavy smartphone use. Not that that's much better.


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 No.5693[Reply]

Apple trying really hard to delude normalfags into believing security == privacy (while offering neither).
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 No.5860

Wait so if I'm a poorfag who can't afford a fancy phone that supports an open source OS buying a used iphone is better than getting stock android shit?
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 No.5869

>>5860
>used iphone
only if you want apple to kill your device performance with a firmware update
see https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/tech/apple-slow-iphone-settlement-payouts/index.html
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 No.5870

>>5869
Eh, I only use my phone for calling and whatsapp (thanks to normies and my boss).
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 No.5910

>>5860
buying a cheap android and installing replicant on it is better than both of those options.
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 No.5914

>>5910
Doesn't it suffer from the same issue as Graphene i.e. it's supported in very few devices that are hard to find and/or expensive?


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 No.5907[Reply]

Apple is sec-


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