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Comment · 7 years ago
Do these "life hacks" apply in other developed countries, or is the US special in this way too?
Comment · 7 years ago
If a company is okay with employees "cross training" is that a problem? They're not forced to train employees, but the good ones will.
Comment · 7 years ago
I stopped reading when he said IBM Watson was somehow key in this "globotics" revolution. Even IBM seems to have stopped advertising Watson.
Comment · 7 years ago
Can anyone working in this field comment on how it's applied? For example, what is computed? Homology groups, just the ranks of these groups, or something else? Given these, what does one learn about the data set under analysis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_data_analysis#Appl... is pretty scant on detail.
Comment · 7 years ago
Very likely different forms of "lower social cohesion."
Comment · 7 years ago
What is the right data format to move around? JSON?
Comment · 7 years ago
Not sure exactly what you're linking the Wikipedia article on quantum states, but if you like it as a reference, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state#Mixed_states. The operation of "projecting out" the E&M field in my previous comment would be realized on the density matrix as a partial trace over the electromagnetic field. You can also take the partial trace of this field of the Hamiltonian operator to see the effective dynamics of the atom when "ignoring" the E&M field. This is a fully quantum description of the state, so I stand by the statement that your claim "An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant." is incorrect.
Comment · 7 years ago
"An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant."
How do you figure? As a contradiction, take your atom+electromagnetic field system, describe the transition from excited atom to unexcited atom + photon state, and project out the E&M field. Voila, now you have a quantum description of an atom transitioning between different energy states. Its dynamics may look funny, i.e. they may appear nonlocal, they may not conserve energy, etc. but that's different from saying "there is not a quantum description of these dynamics" which is what you're claiming.
Comment · 7 years ago
Maybe a different class of games will do best on a streaming platform.
Comment · 7 years ago
How did you buy Inbox? Wasn't it free?
Seems like a false equivalence "free skin on top of Gmail" != paid-for service like this one.
Comment · 7 years ago
Going to prison doesn't exempt you from the law from the rest of your life.
Comment · 7 years ago
Is regulation really "one and done"? MS got fined (repeatedly) around 2000 so they're done with regulation?
They at least have shady sales tactics.
Comment · 7 years ago
Makes me think of Paul Graham's essay on submarine articles: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
Comment · 7 years ago
FWIW they might still be.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's possible they're looking elsewhere for a reason. In other words, selection bias.