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Its waiting on room temp superconductors I believe. Otherwise you have to cool a 1000km of cable and of course the material needs to be reasonable ductable. And dont hold your brea…

I like the epilogue. I too wish I could go back to my younger self and describe this understanding. I would try to explain to myself that each pattern can be seen as an object in a…

I give up. I think you're wrong, you think I'm wrong. I dont have time to iron out all the mistakes you are making and Im sure you feel the same way.

'it's not just a feature of my or anyone's "model" of the world.' This may just be semantics, but I dont see how you could argue that it isnt a feature of a model of the world. A n…

I was angry at a great deal of posts like yours over a range of topics. Perhaps in this instance the anger was missplaced. In a previous post I have worked out how to articulate my…

'You're supposed to question what they're saying; you're supposed to look at logical implications to see if what they're saying is all consistent.' What you are doing here is sayin…

Don't you think thinkers have always thought this at every point of time in history? The answer is yes they have. There have been large innaccuracies discovered in our models befor…

I get really tired of these ignorant psuedo sceptic responses. It's so obviously a straw man attack it makes me cringe. Why are you so set on assuming that it is violating conserva…

Oh no no. Thats not how it works at all. People only look in places where they expect to find things. Thats why we dont rub sticks together all day when building a nuclear reactor.…

That's not entirely fair. D wave is attempting to use quantum effects anneal to solutions faster than a classical computer would. It's not what we would usually think of as a quant…

Im slightly concerned about having ~5w of beam formed ultrasound tracking my mobile phone as I clamp it against my ear to make a phone call. I will need convincing!

Until the machines learn to learn...

I saw it in london once. I failed the test so badly that the interviewer refused to believe that I had written the demo project which got me a first interview. He said it was one o…