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Actually you can't compose quantum crypto protocols like you can classical ones - the composed protocol needs a new security analysis. Entanglement across protocols often kills the…

ChatGPT suggests (and cites your paper): Give the humans an order 1,2,3,…, and let a referee read them in that order. Person k tosses one fair coin and reports H/T. The referee sto…

Yeah sorry, pretty vague, and I'm not sure what the "rules" precisely should be. Roughly I mean something that involves an infinite number of humans but where the workload per huma…

Asher Peres told me that Bill Wootters should be given 99% of the credit for the teleportation discovery (and this is in the context that most of us around at the time presumed the…

Fun read! I have an extremely vague question; Is there one of these "stupid" ways of computing pi that doesn't involve an infeasible (to humans) infinity? I'm comparing to the "hav…

This was interesting thanks - makes me wish I had the time to study your examples. But of course I don't, without just turning to an LLM.... If for any of these topics you do manag…

This proposal requires exponential energy! But you can factorize numbers with only one photon (a tiny amount of energy). Oh yeah, you’ll need an exponential number of modes (you ju…

except the emission spectra from atoms :)

I suspect you are right - but multiple Nobel prizes have gone to people who got there only very slightly ahead of others in the race. Would be tough to argue that there are many pr…

Surely Wofram deserves the Nobel as much as Hopfield and Hinton? Not for this stuff of course (which I doubt many take seriously), but because he also provided us with an amazing c…

It is possible to make quantitative statements that I think capture many of the intuitions you assert. Here was one attempt: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLe…

Time to move to London, will save yourself a fortune :)

Is this known to be true? Its obviously not true for arbitrary irrational numbers

Random question from a very-much-not-computer savvy person on the off chance someone cares to answer: If a tiny charge was levied every time a webserver delivered a page to me woul…

>I really wish textbooks with open licenses would take over and they could be reworked and improved year after year by different people Could anyone explain to me how they think th…

Given access to repeated uses of a coin of unknown bias "p" (which is not 0 or 1) you can (eventually) always generate a new coin flip with bias given (exactly) by: 1. 1/2 (i.e fai…

Perhaps it helps to imagine someone had a "screwy thumb" and the coin only precesses when they "flip" it (in fact people can train themselves to do this, and its very difficult for…

Unfortunately I don't have a github account, but in case you will take a report from here. In this paper of mine: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2303.05514 The references come i…

Its a great start! It seems to be using the bibtex tags for the inline citations. They don't stand out clearly enough for my liking, and they also have me worried: have I ever used…

Perhaps I would quit if things deteriorated to the point I was seriously considered the best option for such!

Presumably talking to the wind here as this thread is old, but nonlocal hidden variables do not break causality! This can be seen explicitly in Bell's trivial model, where the stat…

Can't resist mentioning my personal favorite expansion of a sqrt: sqrt(1-x) = 1- \sum_n C(n)/2^(2n+1) x^(n+1) where x is in (0,1) and C(n)=binomial(2n,n)/(n+1) is the n'th catalan …

Great - yet another misaligned incentive to throw into the often stressful mix of how lead authorship should be determined!

Agree with this - the jury is still out on "reality" or otherwise of a wavefunction, and people expend their "real" research efforts differently according to their opinion! Saying …