While slop seems to be the popular term online, I never hear it spoken aloud. With Gen Alpha’s exposure to AI mostly through school, spoken media (youtube, tv), and their parents, “AI” probably cropped up independently as an insult
room-temperature superconductors, sure, but I fail to see how quantum computing will disrupt – in the medium term (25 years or so) – classical computing in any meaningful way
Is running LLMs (or some other ML workload) on/with quantum computers expected to bring efficiency gains?
Yep! It became public domain in the United States this year. But it's been public domain in Canada since 2020 (70y after death) and has been available from Canada's Project Gutenberg equivalent: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200531
It’s not shipwrecks themselves that are particularly interesting, but in what they provide in contextual evidence to answer the foundational six questions: who, what, when, where, why, how.
> The Binh Chau cargo is an important find which provides physical evidence of the ceramic assemblage that was exported during the closing years of Tang Dynasty. It enable one to have a clearer understanding of the quality and type of ceramics wares that were produced for export. For Changsha and Xing wares, it represented the last phase of their illustrious role in the export trade. What they left behind were huge footprints and milestones in the history of Chinese porcelain production. The high fired polychrome decoration of Changsha and the transparent white glaze of Xing are necessary technical innovation which finally led to the successful production of blue and white and copper red underglaze decoration. As for Yue ware, it had yet to achieve its most glorious moments during the 5 Dynasties and Northern Song period. Guangdong greenwares continued to be an important export item till the Northern Song period.
Gravity experiments? Easier to do accurately in lower gravity environments, like away from the Earth? And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?
I thought this would be obvious from TFA. I should have been more explicit.
> And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?
Resources are finite, and even though they're not fungible, which current ISS experiment would you replace for this?
Also: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062003
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LISA Pathfinder (LPF) [10] was a drag-free interfer- ometer located at the first Lagrange point in space be- tween the Earth and Sun. It measured the differential acceleration between two gold-platinum test masses sus- pended in drag free control. By the end of its lifetime, it had surpassed both its requirements and those of its full scale model LISA [11]. Given the success of the mission, and in coordination with other system tests, a handful of days near the end of the mission extension were allocated to performing a dedicated big G experiment for the first time in space. However, because Pathfinder was not de- signed to perform this sort of measurement, it was known that systematics such as absolute distances would limit the results to no better than 1 % relative uncertainty.
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