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I too doubted, from the beginning, that neural networks will be the basis of AGI. As impressive and useful as LLM's are, they are still a long, long way from AGI.

It is not a one dimensional take... it is a stress test of qubit gate fidelity [across all qubits involved in the circuit], state prep and measurement , lifetime (coherence), memor…

The better analogy here, in my opinion, is until someone builds a car that actually drives forward... A lot of these quantum computing papers are just loud engine rev'ing. But you …

Until a company can demonstrate a quantum volume of even just 2^16... their computer is just about worthless for any sort of half-real quantum computing. I pay zero attention to an…

Modern high-end fabs have extremely expensive equipment and are highly automated... like they are so automated that people don't actually handle wafers... it is almost all robotic.…

Atlantic Quantum has some brilliant people and I'm sure they have some great ideas. That said, I dislike the quantum computing craziness we're in where big claims are made without …

I always try to communicate a strong sense of hope to my teenage kids. Many nations have an inverted population demographic, including the US (especially without immigration). I th…

I think Ada is a great language and it is completely possible that Ada will experience a resurgence in coming years.. especially as LLM's are used more and more to generate softwar…

Yeah... my intro CS class was in C and Ada95 (I'm not a CS guy btw, just took the class). I actually preferred Ada over C... but continued to program in C for other classes because…

I really hope the best for Oxide and applaud their compensation model. I applied to one of their roles which required me to write about 10 pages of text to answer all their questio…

100% agree with you! I have worked US manufacturing and manufacturing R&D for most of my career: pharmaceutical, microelectronics, materials, aerospace, etc. The US is awesome at m…

I graduated in ChemE in southern California in 1999 when there was a major downturn in the job market. One or two big chemical engineering design firms closed their SoCal offices f…

My unpopular opinion, as someone who worked in vaccine development and biotech manufacturing for a lengthy portion of my career, is that: - vaccination should be a personal choice.…

I work in system engineering at a quantum computing company... when I read announcements and new papers on quantum computing, qubit technologies or implementations of quantum compu…

I'd consider Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Zill, 6th Edition which is available used for as little as 25 USD. There is also a print solution manual for this book which is gre…

At a startup I worked at, we had our adaptive control pilot software flying our drone designs in XPlane for testing and demo purposes.

Rust has functionality in the std lib for saturating arithmetic (and other kinds of arithmetic via crates) so that calculations saturate rather than overflow, etc. https://doc.rust…

If your goal is literally to get good at math through Calculus, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra... I feel like the best approach is working through good books (reading, t…

Going away from physical book-based learning was possibly well intentioned (but I have my doubts)... but it was really dumb. There are clear studies that show reading a physical bo…

This is absolutely ridiculous... shame on UW. Their quid pro quo offer is ethically very wrong. My wife works at a major public university and fights with antiquated software and b…

Same... I didn't have to take Linear Algebra in ChemE undergrad. DiffEq had a little bit of LA... and ChemE had few classes where bits of pieces of LA where introduced and applied.…

The real solution to this issue is municipal broadband. If there is a municipal option for high speed internet, people who don't want deal with companies' monitoring and throttling…

All great empires fall, often due an accumulated effect of dumb policy decisions. Ergo, Amazon's grip on market will eventually fail by dumb policy decisions... and this is almost …

The work-life balance & climate in some areas of the US (and other areas of the world) does make it hard to exercise... but that's only part of the story. Eating healthier requires…

Fitness is in reach for almost everyone on Hacker News. There are folks who have serious health issues or disabilities that preclude exercise... but the rest of us [the majority?] …