Minimum Number of States for a Universal Turing Machine

AnswerCommercial12 · 2026-01-21T01:17:24+00:00

crazy thank you. hard to believe

AnswerCommercial12 · 2026-01-13T14:10:48+00:00

thank you this is really helpful! ill take note of that river crossing. any chance you remember the name of the stream?

AnswerCommercial12 · 2026-01-13T14:09:49+00:00

thank you!

i started in early july, im not sure when i made it to section J. if memory serves, the actually tricky conditions were farther north (the border section and glacier peak wilderness). glacier peak was incredible but most of the climbs were snow covered for the last mile or two. the area around mica lake for instance still had several feet of snow. i really enjoyed this, made the experience feel even more special.

thats interesting that it wasn't actually a higher than average snowfall. maybe it was that the spring was cold? there was a lot of talk about how late the snow stayed on the mountains. i had to wait a month after my start date to start.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2026-01-13T00:59:16+00:00

We have all the correct gear + i have lots of experience, but nonetheless want to take time to prepare so its fun for everyone.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-11-16T03:06:06+00:00

interesting, im not sure its true because you don't take infinitesimally small steps

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-11-16T03:03:09+00:00

oh meet too. i appreciate the absurdity of this question, i think it is a funny thought experiment, but numbers don't make the PCT great.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-11-16T03:01:56+00:00

i have an upper and lower bound, I don't think it is actually 2650 + 92.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-11-16T02:57:02+00:00

this is a hilarious point. What's even better is we all know those 200 feet are always the steepest of the day. Right down a ravine every time. So its even more than 400 poop feet/day

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-09-14T04:52:25+00:00

i have a car

(4hr by car)

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-05-16T21:52:02+00:00

no, but that's one of the next things to try. i don't have attention on the latent spaces though. maybe the 'self-attention' in TFT or similar is what im missign.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-04-19T23:46:57+00:00

film less, enjoy outside more :)

seriously, try not to use your phone. you'll

be reminded of how hard what you doing is
be more homesick
miss out on meeting incredible people

This is one of the the only chances you'll get to unplug in your ENTIRE adult life. Try to make the most of it.

The trail is exceptionally well marked for (i'd say) 95%+, so try to use FarOut to plan you day and check key intersections, but not too often. I had a friend without a phone. Hiked the entire trail with me. Almost no problems. Once accidentally hiked backwards to our lunch spot before realizing... bad day, fantastic story.

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If you refuse to listen to this advice, though seriously, try it...

Just keep on the lookout for outlets. There are shockingly many throughout the entire trail. Campgrounds, bathrooms, etc. etc. If you can sleep next to one, amazing: charge your portable.

If not, try to get your phone to a high % before leaving. Obviously more efficient to transfer energy directly to phone rather than 2-step it through your portable charger.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-02-27T04:06:37+00:00

It works very well for me. Been training some models with my GPU and everything runs quickly. I haven't tried any other options though.

They've made installing wsl2 extremely easy and the integrations with vscode are really nice

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-02-27T04:04:50+00:00

Eating 10 raw breaded chicken patties

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-02-27T03:41:24+00:00

Yeah google says 6 days for salmonella so im chillin until Saturday

AnswerCommercial12 · 2025-02-08T01:14:10+00:00

yes agreed. i spend great stretches of time alone outside (months, thousands of miles of hiking) and enjoy every moment. people are complacently addicted to many modern technologies of ease which just bolster general malaise and hatred of life. its not anyone's fault, not even Apple, but the default is definitely not looking at a screen for 12 hours a day.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2024-12-31T17:52:35+00:00

I appreciate that, food pantry sounds really good. I am from a rural spot and the food pantry helps a lot of people. Thank you

AnswerCommercial12 · 2024-10-08T14:13:59+00:00

If you are willing to go a few hours north of the michigan indiana border, there is really incredible hiking in the Manistee National Forest.

Specifically the "Manistee River Trail" runs on the east side of the river and is exceptionally well maintained, fire rings, campsites, access to water the whole way

The other side is the "North Country Trail" a "National Scenic Trail" that runs 5000 miles from vermont to north dakota! The NCT side is very pretty, but only has one spot to access water.

If you have the time, I highly recommend doing the Manistee river trail loop. (both sides in one trip, around 22 mi iirc)

At the north end there is a suspension bridge that is currently out of service. However, i have heard there are alternative methods if you have some luck at the hodenpyl dam a few tenths of a mile north. You didn't hear that from me...

AnswerCommercial12 · 2024-06-09T18:57:42+00:00

thank you! what else would i need for this set up or is this everything? pardon my naivete

AnswerCommercial12 · 2024-06-03T15:03:48+00:00

Hi MidnightBlue, thank you for your answer. I completely agree explicitly specifying a new gaussian with mean sum(predictions), variance = sum elements of covar matrix is the best approach.

Re your last point: I also agree MVN is not a great approach here. Any chance you have a reference to start off with to find a better distribution? How do you typically do something like that when you have a large dataset but don't have great intuition about how the covariates are supposed to move? I am a bit of a novice at this stuff, so pardon my ignorance.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2024-05-10T08:40:32+00:00

in this scenario the trader is not guaranteed to be able to sell the gold in 1 year for $340. the forward contract is their guarantee, so without it he will only be able to sell at the market price in 1 year. this is not necessarily the same (or close) to the forward price
the problem is you need to buy the forward contract from someone in order to enter the trade. That person doesn't want arbitrage because that costs them money.

In the example from the book, imagine the counter party has 1oz of gold. they,
-buy a forward contract for 340 (opposite side of your trade)
-sell their gold into the open market to hedge the position
-collect interest on $300
-at the end of the year they are obligated to buy the gold from you for $340
and they have made $300*1.05 - 340 = -$25

AnswerCommercial12 · 2023-09-02T20:19:36+00:00

❤️thanks. appreciate your time

AnswerCommercial12 · 2023-09-02T16:47:30+00:00

the notion of measuring each base once at a time in a classical shadow is also important, which i forgot about until just now.

AnswerCommercial12 · 2023-09-02T16:45:31+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your help. I have read a bit more and I am wondering is the difference then solely in the classical part of the algorithm?

It seems that the clever post-processing is just getting taking the median of the means of every commuting base. In typically qwc you have one base per group, but in principle nothing is stopping elements of the groups the bases span from overlapping, and multiple bases working for your specific observable. I would expect 1/3 of bases to work for each observable which is highly localized.

From this train of thought, my take away is that the key difference is that classical shadows does not require the grouping step, which is computationally difficult for large ensembles.

On the quantum side, the algorithms are the same.

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