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It's a nice part of the modern ecosystems, but I'm not sure the slight convenience of centralizing my subscription options would save me that much.

If the fee is for Apple to curate the ecosystem and verify apps are safe, this looks an awful lot like they're using it to drive up revenue instead.

There's evidence too that these practices are done hastily too, when you use IAP, but the app expects you to create a secondary account as well.

Sliding scale microtransaction growing pains, I suppose. Things were nicer when apps were inexpensive commodities. People aren't able to run business analysis like this and it makes the market opaque which is good... for Apple.

(Meta: figures)

Uh, in order: live in a society bottlenecked through a trashy parasitic exploitative dump of a communications tool, be subjected to psychological experimentation, be in a market where technology is constantly locked away and consuned by behemoth new megalodons whose sole purpose it to appreciate 400% every 10 years, live in a society malleable enough to be purchased, still haven't woken up from the nightmare.

Back in school I remember my most effective drive to learning was my desire to develop video games. It reinforced physics, vector math, and systems design.

I've been working slowly towards a nebulous design I have for a quantum puzzle game, that maybe I can help myself and others develop the intuition needed in this budding field.

Nothing to show for it, but it's a long road I'm a few steps down, and I'm enjoying the scenery.

I personally applaud Valve for braving to support as much hardware as they do. Even having built their own VR headset, they support a wide variety for their latest software a tacit show of support for the relationship of their customers and the VR ecosystem.

Perhaps this is anticipating Apple's upcoming move to a potentially new micro architecture that's been reported on -- I suppose if Apple thinks they need a software moat, they'll find a place to trench one up.

John Martinis speaking at a conference on "Google AI Quantum" last quarter.

https://youtu.be/K_H_mbSH45s

The main reason I haven't dumped my XZ2 Compact for a Palm Palm is my paranoia around owning a Chinese designed device.

Largely the same story for those waves of Android Lollipop "smart watches".

I'm very unhappy with the market for mobiles, it seems manufacturers have no balls, and are clueless about what I want / sensitive to what carriers are willing to sell en masse.

In a phrase, the stupid shitty financing options carriers provide seem to define the market for devices (supply, credit, marketing), not what actually makes a good device.

Shame all around.

It's an implementation of a single qubit, tested through several transformations (one of two critical parts of a quantum computer) using a quantum dot. A useful qubit can be placed into a superposition state, say with a probability, on measurement, of being found up or down. A quantum dot is an area of a semiconductor that acts like an atom, but doesn't have a nucleus. The paper focuses on a novel implementation where the electron of interest is in a higher shell than other implementations, and quantifies the performance, finding higher shell electrons perform better than lower ones.

Finally they claim they may be able to implement coherent entanglement (the other critical ingredient for quantum computing) but it is only mentioned as a foot note, with a nod to another paper which analyzed quantum dot electron spin qubits under entanglement, but not with the higher shells.

Remember when Microsoft sued OpenOffice for building a functional free competitor? Or when Sun sued Python?

I feel it's time to ramp up support for Ubuntu Touch.

It's a result of things getting worse. In an effort to stop abuse and increase drive to sponsored creators, YouTube committed a cardinal sin with respect to their discovery algorithm. They made things worse.

Discovery on YouTube is now comically difficult, getting out of your filter bubble means making bizarre searches and filter edge cases, otherwise you see the same 15 videos weekly.

They've failed to filter the hate content they intended to eliminate, they've failed to improve their curated content volume, and discovery remains bound and gagged in the back of Ad monetization's sedan.

If you were here in 2010 it's worse now. Privacy / safety / predictability, I guess, but the magic is all gone.

YouTube could use an [adult swim] concept. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. YouTube.

I'll reiterate that I was just hoping to share my intuition behind the subject but I'll try and point you in the right direction.

I mean that the relationship between Newtonian mechanics and Quantum mechanics is such that the matter described by Newtonian mechanics is composed of matter whose precise behavior is exclusively described by quantum mechanics, that is that underlying matter is fundamental to the macro behavior.

I'm by no means a physicist, but a formal treatment of this kind of relationship (and predicted consequences) is captured in Constructor Theory (as David Deutsch who may have been early in identifying this was able to formalize this in the much more precise language of physics)

Intuitively, if you took a whiffle ball (or pair of whiffle balls, or some other ensembleoof whiffle balls sufficient to represent a system's state) in your hands, and a little obstacle course representing, say, beam splitters, and with each in your hands somehow made these classical implements behave like photons, you would have little hope of doing this at light speed.

There's a very intuitive inductive argument that places quantum computers ahead of classical computers.

Basically that quantum interactions are more fundamental to the universe than more terse ones, stochastic randomness or presence/absence.

If a computing device (in a universe) is built to compute using more fundamental substance (to that universe) it should stand to reason it is more efficient.

If you model a photon, does your model ever move as fast as the photon?

This is confusing and anti-climactic. Hopefully algotraders using Bitcoin price as a signal of equities health will fall on their face with this and raise equity prices sharply in the short term.