lots of functions with horizontal asymptotes look ok on a log scale until they don't.

You have to get to page 25 before it starts being honest about the fact quantum computing is a con.

Important Nuance: the research is real, the science is real, but the narrative being sold about the future of quantum computing to ensnare investors is not a reasonable prediction and is a con.

To be fair, that doesn't really distinguish it from the rest of the industry. I would say the same thing about AI and (especially) blockchain.

> I would say the same thing about AI

AI has commercial applications right now. What commercial application is there for quantum computing right now?

D-wave managed to sell some devices. I'm not clear on what they could be useful for, but they still managed to sell them.

California also gets at least one countries worth of homeless shipped to it BECAUSE of the resources it provides (And political spite). This is the bad Nash Equilibrium in action, being punished for improving the situation.

I'm totally ok with that and actual communications from the company are very clear about what it is. Looks like this is out of their control.

Please report back when you try baking something!

I did actually cook a few recipes from GPT4. They turned out all right.

Bake vs Cook are they key words here.

I, for one, enjoy using talcum powder in my scones

The fact the "I hate NPM" section is so simple makes me wonder why npm was involved at all.

I also deeply hate NPM. (Normalizing NPM is a hazard to society) So maybe I'm biased...

I used Svelte for convenience, so you need npm (or equivalent), but only if you want to develop/extend the project. If you just want to use it, the html template is sufficient.

Honestly it's awesome you did, thanks! Also, please stop using NPM in general.

The thread on warp drives got killed so I'm replying here (sorry for out of context folks)

"Would it explode or just punch a hole" depends on the energies of the impact involved. If there is only enough energy to break chemical bonds, it would punch a hole.

As energy of the impact gets higher the hole gets deeper. Probably punching all the way through the ship.

Once the impact energy gets strong enough to break nuclear bonds, the story changes. Now we have an e=mc^2 event at the impact site. It isn't just the impact energy anymore. At minimum, the punched hole just got wider and potentially radioactive as byproducts go on adventures. Once the hole is wider than the ship, I think that counts as "exploded".

Nobody realistically expects FTL. Warp drive still has hope for reactionless or even just lower fuel needs that would be amazing. The other big thing would be reducing the impact velocity of the assorted random atoms in the way as you go fast.

I don’t know about others, but personally I would love to travel quickly through space without a dust mote piercing the aft of my craft and subsequently my skull, thereby obliterating my brain.

Would it actually pierce the ship like a bullet or would it cause the ship to… explode or shatter or something

Once you start considering it just metacognition, it gets to be a much more useful concept, but most people seem to desperately want it to be "special".

Ask any therapist, consciousness has limits, it has bound depth. It takes a lot of work to re-train it. It isn't a magical human only special thing.

So that isn't true. The 3 body problem is a problem in theory and extreme situations, not practice.

We discovered half the planets by doing the math to predict the orbits based on the known distribution of math in the solar system.

General Relativity was initially validated by predicting mercury's orbit accurately.

> known distribution of math in the solar system.

And mass as well :)