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QuantumG

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About QuantumG

I'm on Twitter, I'm sure you can find me.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42547763

    One day you'll understand how valuable it was to have a person with knowledge and their own thoughts.

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    Comment #42547089

    Whereas you would previously (for your first example) have a conversation with the guy at the video store and he'd not only tell you the movie but also recommend something else you…

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    Comment #42202534

    What you really want is a story telling engine informing the world model and the humans need to generate power.

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    Comment #42181595

    CiteSeer we barely knew you.

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    Comment #42161076

    What are you doing here then?

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    Comment #42048320

    Oh, so you're the sucker. All sizzle, no steak.

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    Comment #41966082

    What? If you're gunna post a blog, at least choose one that writes well.

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    Comment #40579438

    Not everyone cares about that.

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    Comment #40362645

    I'll try. Thanks.

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    Comment #40360541

    Dang. As we're detached, let me say that ycombinator used to be a place that attracted the best of the best. One could come here and talk to people who knew their shit and had some…

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    Comment #40349191

    Normal physical processes are not deterministic. You don't need to speculate on a source of non-determinism, it's right there in the substrate. Penrose's entire argument is based o…

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    Comment #40349163

    In which case go read fiction. There's plenty of it. Stop polluting the space with gibberish. A joke article with 50000 citations is no longer a joke. What fiction? QNTM did a grea…

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    Comment #40349138

    I am a dumb person. Ask me about colours sometime.

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    Comment #40340383

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    Comment #40337718

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40327061

    They're talking about simulating big floppy structures in space.

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    Comment #40314880

    Related: Alright is one word. So very often it's written "all right" by folks writing the subtitles.

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    Comment #40192468

    If you're the kind of person who goes to the comments first, I'm here to tell you there's no need to read the article. Just say "bossware" to yourself 10 times.

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    Comment #40110240

    The second half of the article is certainly preferable to the whining at the beginning.

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    Comment #40094698

    Chromium is still useful but it's not Chrome.

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    Comment #40073002

    If you take the red pill you come out of the pod bald, and then your hair starts growing. Up till now I just assumed the pod goop had growth suppression properties

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    Comment #40072792

    Oh, now The Matrix makes sense.

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    Comment #40028746

    Do you think they understand the benefits? I think you'd have a lot better chance at enacting change than my emotional rambling has, and if not, lesson learned.

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    Comment #40027907

    Which newer techniques? Honest question.

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