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Comment · 2 years ago
People were predicting solar eclipses thousands of years ago with no calculators or even a modern understanding of math. Can't be that hard.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Further, we use this mapping to prove that any problem efficiently solvable by a quantum algorithm can be recast as a problem involving a network of coupled oscillators, albeit exponentially many of them.

Is this a new result, giving that quantum field theory is described in terms of quantum harmonic oscillators?

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I thought ITER was the biggest tokamak.

BTW, what is the status of ITER?

Comment · 2 years ago
They mention 20 years in the article.
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Comment · 2 years ago
2 million laser beamlets sounds very expensive, depending on how they generate them.

It could be that the "writer" costs $1 mil right now, so might only make sense in a data center.

Comment · 2 years ago
They can claim dynamic fetch is "phoning home" and a user privacy danger.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was told we can't build like that anymore.
Comment · 2 years ago
Today mouse is 2 different things: actual mouse or trackpad.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's about scale and speed, not novel attacks.

Also exploitation. An AI could determine much faster what might be worth stealing reducing mitigation time.

Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like one excellent solution is mandatory ID check on all sites which handle personal information, right?
Comment · 3 years ago
> Once the skies are clear

The problem in Ukraine is that the ground is not clear (mobile air defense and MANPADS). So neither side is using planes for CAS.

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