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> predicting the electronic ground-state energies of FLiBe molecular clusters this looks like a problem for quantum annealing, rather than digital qbits. Maybe D-wave can help.

but, are they pear-shaped boffins?

search greatly improved in the past couple years. try it again?

pi^2 ~ 10, well known to anyone who used slide rules.

It: the McRib? cuteoverload.com? Ska? Art Deco? VB6? that Heisenbug? $3 gasoline? Nixon?

I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in th…

going in the opposite direction, as few as two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon

the AI app we knew we didn't need

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

Guess it went pear-shaped! > Majorana particles, subatomic particles that scientists have not observed directly. i expect they're looking for Majorana quasi particles

As a graduate student, I used to rent my body to Science, by participating in medical school experiments. Nothing injected, but blood drawn. I spent an afternoon in an iron lung, a…

of course, you're also harvesting credentials from these laptops

"cattle, not pets"

Nothing beats coming home from work, chopping something into pieces, and setting it on fire.

been using this since System 7. Still doesn't suck.

> "Our hope is that our model can play a role in a thoughtful data-driven conversation about one of the most societally and personally important decisions any person can make,” he …

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http://knuthlab.org/courses/2025/AdvancedPhysicsLab/resource...

who could have forseen this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082#48087331

only started?

the story goes, when the first Edison wax cylinder recording came out, they were indistinguishable from a live performance. these days we can hear the noise, crackles, and lack of …

cool! maybe they can use it to find a point to Operation Epstein Fury

good thing I don't use npm or pip, just the recommended curl ... | bash

is this what the cryptobros are doing now?

"Proto" - Laura Spinney. Proto-Indoeuropean. https://www.powells.com/book/proto-how-one-ancient-language-... before that "The Horse the Wheel & Language". David Anthony. Proto-Indo…