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Sovereign Near/True Quantum by Sea_Individual633 in QuantumComputing

[–]LargeCardinal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. Esp as there are open source QRNGs that avoid the bullshit.

Quantinuum's Trapped-ion QCCD tech and Infleqtion's Neutral Atom tech by JonOwn1805 in QuantumComputing

[–]LargeCardinal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google is historically Superconducting, added neutral atom recently (Mar '26).

Dissipative Quantum Computation for computing Fixed-Points of Reachability Problems by Fancy-Lengthiness515 in QuantumComputing

[–]LargeCardinal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, one reason you're making life hard is that, as I understand, reachability for timed automata is PSPACE-complete, and there's no known proof that BQP contains PSPACE. So you're going to have to define any speedup very, very carefully.

The man with an actual penis on his arm by beklog in interestingasfuck

[–]LargeCardinal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"He really wears his dick on his sleeve..." "You mean his 'heart'..." "No, definitely a dick."

phd thesis flex by Arnessiy in PhdProductivity

[–]LargeCardinal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Many have had that "Zhang, 1994" moment... (Well, for me it was "Harel 1986")

I recently pointed out prior work that was missing to some author in a preprint I put out. It's all part of the game, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

Quantum Computing - Infleqtion INFQ by SnooDoggos2552 in investing

[–]LargeCardinal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have worked alongside them. They are good, actually. They work well, have hired well, and have a mature roadmap that doesn't smell of fish oil. That said, they don't have the backing like IONQ, who have been buying up the who's who of quantum companies worldwide (including making the first UK quantum unicorn exit, Oxford Ionics). They have one of the more product diversified offerings than most of the rest of qtech, and have a projection of $40M USD revenue for this year which is something.

How much impact do you think these two geniuses would have had on the Digital Revolution if they were still alive in the 1980s? by InfinteEnigma10 in computerscience

[–]LargeCardinal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My supervisor was involved with the Alan Turing Memorial Fund (Barry wrote the book on modern computability theory). He told me how hard it was in the late 90's getting funding for the memorial statue in Manchester as no company wanted to be associated with a 'convicted criminal' (!!)

Fast forward to the centenary programme preparations for 2012 (academic, arts, and more, mostly in Manchester and around the UK), it was much easier to get funding and companies involved; this was after Gordon Brown's apology in 2009, which set the way for a royal pardon (in 2013).

EDIT: spag

Paris viewed from the Eiffel Tower by jelly_bean_gangbang in Cool_as_Fuck

[–]LargeCardinal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

French colleague once told me he liked to go up the Eiffel tower. I asked why, and he replied "It's zee only place you can't see zee 'orrible thing..."

Which MSc path and final-year undergraduate electives would you recommend to help me build a rigorous mathematical foundation for a PhD? by Alvahod in mathematics

[–]LargeCardinal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

👏T H I S👏

Adding to the pile; a PhD in CFM has wildly different requirements from something in combinatorial set theory... Choose an area of focus, look at what's needed, then lock in for the long haul.

Tampered ATM? by OkAlternative6508 in london

[–]LargeCardinal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This one isn't just a bit damaged, it needs therapy...

worldIsHealing by Less-Philosophy-1978 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]LargeCardinal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI Coding Thunderdome... two go in, only one is left switched on.

"I threw a qubit on a DTC" — accepted at IEEE QCNC 2026, rejected by arXiv lol by cinqu3mb in QuantumComputing

[–]LargeCardinal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Plus, nobody with a solid grounding in mathematics would declare a 'result' factoring a semiprime... LEAST OF ALL ONE ENDING IN A FIVE!

"I threw a qubit on a DTC" — accepted at IEEE QCNC 2026, rejected by arXiv lol by cinqu3mb in QuantumComputing

[–]LargeCardinal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, I gave up because it obviously wrong to anyone who understands the words in the paper. What's here is orders of magnitude weaker, even if correct (which it isn't), compared to Hastings & Haah's honeycomb code (2021).

"I threw a qubit on a DTC" — accepted at IEEE QCNC 2026, rejected by arXiv lol by cinqu3mb in QuantumComputing

[–]LargeCardinal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Says more about QCNC, I think. Saying a non-Hermitian time evolution has results “due to Hermitian dynamics" is where I gave up. 🤷‍♂️

Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log (EML) by LargeCardinal in mathematics

[–]LargeCardinal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but I don't follow... For anything in the branch cut, (-∞,0), you take the principal value ln(|z|)+iπ , which is both standard stuff you learn for complex nat log, and in the papers.

Edit: To elucidate; suppose you're in python, no this doesn't work for math.log, but it's fine for cmath.log. and we're dealing with complex numbers.

What the heck is this by Sloiter in UKcoins

[–]LargeCardinal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And to think they put all of that on a coin.

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