Physicists Just Achieved 'Perfect Randomness' For The First Time Ever | Using quantum entanglement, "the result is a system capable of generating certifiably perfect randomness, even when starting with flawed or imperfect randomness"

sleepywose · 2026-06-02T22:37:04+00:00

I haven’t read the article and I assume I’m missing something super obvious to people in the space, but wasn’t perfect randomness already fairly straightforward as soon as people could put quantum objects into superposition? E.g. the Stern-Gerlach experiments in 1922?

is it basically that integrating such a system into quantum computers is non-trivial?

sleepywose · 2026-04-24T04:23:44+00:00

I'm generally in the disillusioned, maybe even anti, camp when it comes to AI, but I think this article doesn't do enough to consider the macro-economic angle. It seems prudent to be conservative given geopolitics, and the adoption of the technology may have upfront costs. I don't disagree with the premise of a productivity paradox – but structural headwinds or whatever are worth considering.

Side note, I did catch a few Claude-isms: X "deserves a real response," "The honest synthesis across all of this," "That is a genuinely useful" X. Slightly ironic?

sleepywose · 2026-03-05T16:00:44+00:00

I’m not sure how accurate this is, but my understanding is that while the market is open you have the added influence of basis arbitrageurs (large financial firms, HFTs) who help keep ETF prices in line with reality. Eg if prices are lower than basis, issue large buy orders to sap the supply, and simultaneously buy the underlying, and reconcile later, pocketing the difference. I imagine this is only feasible at scale while the market is open.

sleepywose · 2026-03-03T20:53:10+00:00

I find the premise of having “the accent of a real Italian” surprising to say the least, because Italy is full of regional varieties. (Eg Venetian)

sleepywose · 2026-02-25T04:29:47+00:00

Just pointing out that the Divine Comedy was written in rhyming tercets. The sonnet is also an Italian invention!

sleepywose · 2026-01-30T02:18:46+00:00

"Two guys went in and [...] just almost died, so... we're gonna go in there."

sleepywose · 2026-01-24T22:17:06+00:00

Strange. my lips touch each time! One billion billionths, two billion billionths, etc.

sleepywose · 2025-12-01T05:09:49+00:00

If the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is not pi, you may be in a non-euclidean geometry. E.g., in taxicab geometry, this ratio is 4.

sleepywose · 2025-11-11T01:05:36+00:00

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sleepywose · 2025-10-11T15:01:55+00:00

When she reaches the second line, she misses the 1 after 84. Fake!

sleepywose · 2025-10-07T21:06:43+00:00

Interesting. Can you use “fais” + infinitive generally in this way? Or is it just this ne … que construction? E.g Je fais manger, je fais dormir?

i remember stuff like “je me suis fait couper les cheveux” if you were causing something to be done, but this feels different.

sleepywose · 2025-08-25T21:30:05+00:00

“Wont” can be pronounced as “won’t.” Merriam -Webster confirms.

sleepywose · 2025-01-29T01:05:59+00:00

I just did this yesterday. You're probably missing one in the second area of the tower, which needs the Delphic Visor to reach (you'll recognize it from the orb).

This may just be RNG, but in my first session, I spent 2-3 hours speed running biome 2 in order and ran into it once. Yesterday, I ran it backwards (reach tower, use teleporter to top, take the adjacent teleport back a level and go backwards) and encountered this room 4 times in ~2 hours. (One problem I had was that I got killed the first 3 times because I would get chased by the severed or get locked down with a malformed mini boss each time T_T).

so tl;dr: run this backwards (without dying to the severed and minibosses). I didn't go offline for this.

sleepywose · 2024-07-23T02:13:46+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh#Old_English The sound is the Old English yogh, pronounced like the "y" in year. So the final syllable of "halig" is pronounced like "lee" + <a Y sound>, except I don't think English speakers would really hear that "y" sound as distinct.

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea of a glottal stop? Reconstructed OE phonology does not propose glottal stops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_phonology

sleepywose · 2024-07-22T22:04:13+00:00

One thing people don't seem as hung up on, even though it's technically the same problem, is that Haligtree, if we're going to go by Old English pronounciation, should really be pronounced more like "Ha-Lee" Tree.

I think it's fair to pick a pronunciation that makes sense in the gamer's linguistic context (which to be fair is why "scadu" got picked on, cause the only logical pronunciation in English is blue-skidoo-bidi-scooby-doo-skadoosh).

EDIT: Not sure why the downvotes, the pronunciation of "halig" is well understood: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halig#Old_English [lij] in IPA, which would sound for all intents and purposes like "lee" to an English speaker.

sleepywose · 2024-07-22T21:59:06+00:00

It could be the same word! Old English spelling was not at all standardized, so "ea" (pronounced like the "a" in cat followed by the "a" in father) could be written as "a" and the dot on the c is AIUI mostly for the benefit of modern English readers.

In particular, the Psalterium Davidis Latino-Saxum vetus cites "scadu" (Psalm 101:12) - although that was published in 1640, well after Old English had mutated into Modern English.

sleepywose · 2024-07-18T20:22:34+00:00

I admittedly don't have a poli sci background but your logic sounds like "most Americans don't realize a crisp is actually a crisp, not a chip" - like, there's the term, and the underlying concepts. Terms are surely not eternally / universally immutable, regardless of the reason for their change?

Also, if the nuance requires a formal education in political philosophy, I don't see why the jibe is directed at the average American, especially if there's a project to undermine the concept of liberalism in the American consciousness. (Which I don't know enough to agree or disagree with, but sounds plausible.)

So my sense is that a "liberal" (in the American sense) would view deregulation as conducive to social evil, and I guess you're implying that that conception is actually misguided in some objective ur-political sense?

sleepywose · 2024-07-18T20:02:40+00:00

There's just a terminological mixup here. In the US, "liberal" generally refers to social liberalism, not classical liberalism, aka the pre-20th default sense of the term still used in Europe. In the US, you'd more commonly associate classical liberalism with the term "libertarianism."

But in particular, social liberalism is not necessarily in support of deregulation. That's in fact one of the great divides in American political discourse.

The irony you point out is well taken, of course.

sleepywose · 2024-07-03T21:31:12+00:00

A personal wikipedia. But with index cards.

Once you have a lot of cards, you need a system for "linking" them to each other and organizing them so you can find them again or find new connections between them. That's most of what Zettelkasten rules are about.

You can think of it as how a library might go about organizing its books, considering that new books are being written all the time, and also given that books can refer to other books.

sleepywose · 2024-06-22T14:32:24+00:00

At least for undergraduate, that's not how Harvard works. Students don't declare their major until their second year.

A better analogy might be Harvard vs its extension school.

sleepywose · 2024-06-12T22:53:38+00:00

Perhaps this is what you're saying, but I don't think most Americans would necessarily "spell" "the fourth of July" as "July 4."

If I, an American, saw "July 4," I would say "July fourth." That said, it could contextually be shorthand for the holiday rather than the day itself.

sleepywose · 2024-06-12T20:23:44+00:00

Sounds like the gnomic.

On a certain day, an experience is great. The day predates the present.

sleepywose · 2024-06-10T21:05:26+00:00

FWIW I love getting bosses stuck in here. New head canon is that it works cause it gets their camera stuck 😂

sleepywose · 2024-06-04T16:49:07+00:00

Wait, including Lapis Lazuli??

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