Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-speedup-found-for-huge-class-of-hard-problems-20250317/
#HackerNews #QuantumSpeedup #HardProblems #QuantumComputing #TechNews #ResearchInnovation
#hardProblems
Hard problems that reduce to document ranking — https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/
#HackerNews #HardProblems #DocumentRanking #TechInsights #AlgorithmChallenges #ResearchInnovation
more answer set programming by markus hecher
"How could the 1.4kg lump of moist, pinkish-beige tissue inside your skull give rise to something as mysterious as the experience of being that pinkish-beige lump, and the body to which it is attached?"
#Cryptography has long been a cat-and-mouse game between people designing encryption schemes and those trying to break them. For our #HardProblems issue, science writer Stephen Ornes looks at the push to find truly hard math problems, ones that could finally give us unassailable security.
For our #HardProblems issue, the inimitable @peepeepoopoop takes on a very humble question: how to fix the Internet
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/
@CrazyITGuy42 @RainCityBunnies
Very nice 😜 You didn't mention "Colossus", so the next time ...
My Discworld names try to be somewhat relevant:
-border routers named for Ankh-Morpork cops: cheery, vimes, angua
-wireless access point: klacks
-printers: teemer and spools - quite proud of these ones 😀
-main server: hex
-current main workstation: vetinari
Phil Karlton said "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."
I got frustrated with too many projects going on at once so I'm taking a break. Finally playing final fantasy 1 pixel remaster and I've found myself grinding Death Machine (Warmech) #hardproblems #SteamDeck
@garymarcus Sad to see #EM(=#Toxic**2) burn down the bird (he has infinite $$ so $44b is nothing to him). Now, I'm waiting for @Grady_Booch (I know Yoda has no AC) and, yes, @YLeCun (?? No idea if he has an account) to join #Mastodon to replicate the fascinating #ChatGPT #AIEthics debate here!
Some say this is “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”. Well, we need good number of Intelligent people debate cool #OpenProblems #HardProblems of our times on #Mastodon.
Source: https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-most-intelligent-photo-ever-taken.html
I just got reality-slapped on HN regarding browser extension permissions:
There’s no practical way to distinguish between these two options for web extensions: once the extension can fiddle with the HTML on the page, it can use that power to make network requests (trivially, by inserting tags onto the page).
The two options being:
"Extension sees data on pages for which it's activated, and might modify that all kept locally", and
"Extension sends all page information to The CloudWW Somebody Else's Computer where it is probably being shared with umpteen third parties, advertisingW behavioural manipulation and surveillance organisations, and will be preserved in crystal until the Heat Death Of The Universe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726116
I'm not sure the issue is completely unsolveable, or that the situation can't be markedly improved. But my shallow first take is clearly incomplete.
That said: I'm exceedingly disappointed and frustrated with standard browser / mobile app permissions settings and granularity.
#WebBrowsers #Firefox #Permissions #Surveillance #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #HardProblems #Software #MobileComputing
@Hamishcampbell This is true.
It's also ... common.
Very nearly all wars are at heart resource wars, and the resources now in contention are both environmental sinks (for ever-increasing industrial pollutants, including but not limited to CO2).
I recommend as strongly as possible the authors William Ophuls (Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and Plato's Revenge most especially) and Thomas Homer-Dixon (The Ingenuity Gap, among others), who've explored both the ecology and politics of the era of scarcity and limits.
https://ophuls.org/
https://homerdixon.com/
https://homerdixon.com/writing/books/the-ingenuity-gap/
#WilliamOphuls #ThomasHomerDixon #ecology #scarcity #limits #HardProblems
We need help #brainstorming potential names for our new place. Lack of a name is holding up a lot of potential projects and I'd like to get this settled soon. Check out all the tabs for inspiration.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EXlRaFmRefSvjTYjw0VjjqEFBOJXBSrzLbprf1FAUlk
#Victorian #realEstate #intentionalCommunity #hardProblems #naming
The Hard Problem of Breakfast
The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”...
http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex/the-hard-problem-of-breakfast
Genius.
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124900
@brennen That's a definite factor.
Another option is for a particular entity which is on whole a *consumer* of a specific application to invest in its development. That carries all kinds of conflicts (free-riders, competitive advantage / disadvantage, etc).
In practice, a government entity _might_ find this to be worthwhile. Though those are subject to influence from commercial interests.
@alexbuzzbee @codesections I don't have empirical evidence, but the general idea with both Turing tests and honeypots is to develop a reputation sense of the remote party. Each has pros and cons, *both* can be used together. Honeypots risk false-positives, TT's both false positives and negatives A key problem is that there's no really reliable, durable, expensive (e.g., sockpuppet-proof) remote reputational token we have yet. #HardProblems
Give me some follow suggestions! I like #books, #food, #drinks, #aikido, #politics, #socialDevelopment, #philosophy, #games, #games, #gamedev, #hardProblems, #history, #academy, #fairBusiness, #workersRights and more!
Walked onto an impromptu discussion on gender inequality of many hackerspaces at #sha2017 . More then ever, Feel that if we can figure out how the be more inclusive in our spaces, we have a small seed to try and make all of our societies more inclusive. #HardProblems #FeedbackCycles #beautifulFuture
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