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alkylketone··on New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency
I'd be curious what the energy savings are like at smaller scales -- 80x at data center scales, but how about for a smaller machine, like a PC with phase cooling?
alkylketone··on Ask HN: What's a good way to estimate notes from music files
There's a couple source separation algorithms that do a pretty good job splitting the audio into single instrument tracks (I tried open_unmix) -- I'm struggling to transform the single instrument audio into frequencies or notes from that one instrument track.
alkylketone··on Mathe Carlo
Does any one know something similar as a primer on Markov Chains? I get the idea of simulating the pattern of behaviors or states with the Markov chain, and how the Monte Carlo is useful for that, but how to actually make a Markov chain and then test it mathematically with the Monte Carlo is something that I don't know how to do.
alkylketone··on Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
I'm curious what you think of The Narrow Corridor, also by Acemoglu and Robinson. I finished Nations recently, not sure I should jump right to Corridor next?
alkylketone··on Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)
The massive belief in the curative power of science for all ills is what I find so alluring in the early 20th century posters. They're engaging to me because there's an inherent optimism in many of them!