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Not at all clear from the paper whether you need a quantum computer to do these calculations or whether the same circuits could be simulated classically. (I.e. from what I can see …

I encourage people to read the article for themselves and reach their own conclusions.

To clarify a bit more, for us the purpose of opening the oracle and simulating it, whether or not we were the first ones to do it (e.g. we weren't, see Chamon paper above) was to s…

Your comment is helpful to us to see what are some common misunderstandings about what we are saying in our paper versus not saying. It could be some problems with our writing. For…

As one of the authors, I'm ok with reasonable disagreements (e.g. see D. Bacon's below) about whether our overall conclusions are justified. But I feel it important to point out th…

I have a dumb question that keeps nagging me, and wonder if someone here has a good answer. What does Web3 necessarily have to do with the web? Couldn't an iOS app which uses block…

My favorite is the quantum computing researcher Toby Cubitt.

An easy to read (minimal theorems) but authoritative and modern introduction to tensors can be found in the book “An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists” by Jev…

Last paragraph of the article for some reason: “The CDC also said the report is “insufficient” to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the authorized vaccines against Covid,…

Often one is not really interested in solving Ax=b for all possible b but just one particular b. In that case one can iteratively solve for x by algorithms like conjugate gradient …

To your first question, probably not any time soon. The main quantum algorithm for breaking (certain types of) cryptography is Shor’s algorithm, and will probably need error-correc…

Conformally symmetric critical systems are often, though not always, studied by modeling them by conformal field theories, which do involve an action obeying a conformal symmetry. …

Seems notable that they are using the Sinopharm and Covishield vaccines which have been found to be less effective than vaccines like Pfizer or Moderna. Also that 63% of people wit…

What’s your opinion on Julia?

It really blows my mind to think of the things experimental physicists have accomplished and continue to accomplish. One example is molecular beam expitaxy (MBE) technology that le…

I think for most people defund sounds like “take away all funding for” which would be tantamount to abolishing.

Another important consideration is library development. As someone developing a large library, when we were previously developing in C++ we would encounter large barriers where som…

What about students from countries whose time zone is 12 hours different? They can watch lecture recordings, sure, but miss out on asking live questions or participating in discuss…

Agree, though for many Americans it doesn’t take too much energy since they don’t pay any attention to what’s going on in other countries.

Here's a brief statement by Anderson that he wrote for the website www.edge.org. Apparently his main issue was that string theory isn't experimentally driven: """ Philip W. Anderso…

One thing I didn't see mentioned about creating software is that the tools and the systems often have serious problems to begin with, even before you start writing a program. Some …

Forgot to mention, but here is a recent theoretical result (prediction of generalization performance giving size of training set) based on tensor networks: https://itensor.org/mile…

Agreed. There is still a lot of work left to do!

There is a lot of evidence for what Paul says once you dig into a specific field. Taking two fields I know well: in physics, there was decades of work on fundamental questions on s…

I agree it's an important question. But one thing often left out of the possible answers is to go forward with using cheap labor overseas while also providing a very strong safety …