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So labour doesn't really scale. It's measured in hours, and you only get so many of those in a week. If you're using "scale your labour" to mean "scale your output". Well, two case…

Very convenient, if you're someone who benefits from this arrangement, to be able to tell yourself that a brute numerical fact (if you profit off others labour, there must be those…

The difference might be the immense cost of physical infrastructure needed for AI training. People would make open source contributions for free, TSMC, NVIDIA and power companies s…

Sponge delays the overwriting of the input file, so its not trying to read and write quinedb at the same time.

(FirstName, LastName) is probably not a very good UNIQUE KEY.

The numbers are correct, but it was written in an odd way. Grovers algorithm gives a speedup of sqrt(n), so the exponent gets halved.

Not sure if I'm labouring under basic misconception here (or if you're trolling). First, you note that BPP <= P/poly. Secondly, you note that it is hard to prove P = BPP, but this …

Perhaps Bret Victor's ideas are comparable to something like formal methods: few doubt their enormous power, but the difficulty is in the extreme effort one needs to implement them…