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> Just by adding a few more qubits IBM's algorithm scales approximately linearly in the number of qubits. So, you'd need more than a few more qubits...

I might have suggested crediting Alonzo Church. :)

The BSD license would like a word with you: "Redistribution of source code must retain the above copyright notice ..." Or how about the Apache license: "You must retain, in the Sou…

And if everyone imitated California's approach to primary education, perhaps CA wouldn't rank almost-last any more!

My whiteboard even has a fantastic multi-user interaction system!

The potentially interesting question is whether the iPad is actually good for non-consumption tasks. All the faculty in my research group purchase Apple products, and most of them …

I would also be mildly skeptical about that claim; I think there have been some fairly successful uses of custom UIs in medicine.

I'm pretty sure by "feels like" you mean "is". Maybe multitouch will make all kinds of exciting differences. Maybe it won't. As long as you agree that you can't point to any of the…

Being a practicing mathematician means generating and publishing results. I am interested to see your iPad app for diagonalization results or computability proofs.

Logicians? I'm not seeing the iPad app to write math papers without, y'know, writing.

As far as I can tell, the threshold for joining sales engineering there is surprisingly low. BUT... keep in mind, they intentionally don't educate their pre- and post-sales folks a…

As corroboration, my first assignment at Autonomy basically amounted to writing (on-site) a component that had been sold without the existence of a single line of code. I think the…

Autonomy is very good at selling demos for prices at and above what you're listing there. I spent some time there in consulting, which amounted to attempting to convince customers …

The call center tech was acquired; I don't suspect much of it ever had anything to do with their core product.

PTX seems quite reasonable to me, but I don't think it's really intended to be a programmer-facing abstraction. NVIDIA wants you to target CUDA, and they'll (try to) ensure that CU…

This is possible now [1]. FSA will (hopefully) make it significantly more efficient. [1] http://www.idav.ucdavis.edu/publications/print_pub?pub_id=10...

Even NVIDIA isn't crazy enough to try to get everyone to use the same ISA again; they're trying to get you to buy into their compiler chain, not into the architecture of a particul…

Barriers are slow, and the more cores are hitting the barrier the slower it will be. The best news on that front was from the new GPU architecture parts, where they admitted that t…

It is a list of formally verified C compilers. At the moment, there's one.