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New comment by gaze in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"

gaze — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:59:03 +0000

For superconducting qubits, yes. For other architectures everyone is doing their own thing.

New comment by gaze in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

gaze — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:29:34 +0000

I think that's the datacenter with the gas turbine generators that operate without permits because they're "portable." Data centers have tremendous externalities but colossus is a particularly nasty offender, and not just due its size.

Edit: They did it with Colossus and now they're doing the exact same thing with Colossus2. https://www.selc.org/news/xai-built-an-illegal-power-plant-t...

New comment by gaze in "KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit"

gaze — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:17:12 +0000

sure but it seems spiritually wrong to use an LLM to debug a slop paper. Who knows, maybe claude generated it in the first place?

New comment by gaze in "KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit"

gaze — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:11:10 +0000

the irritating thing about LLM generated papers like these is that they're wrong but are generated using LLMs that are capable enough to bury the absurd claim pretty deep in there.

New comment by gaze in "KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit"

gaze — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:03:43 +0000

this paper looks AI generated to me... I mean, there's no experiments to go along with it.

New comment by gaze in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

gaze — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:55:48 +0000

see terry pratchett's boots theory of economic fairness. They'll get into the market with something that costs more long term...

New comment by gaze in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

gaze — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:36:15 +0000

I mean I get your argument but it feels like one should adjust for wage growth instead. One labor unit of value converts to a shittier backpack.

New comment by gaze in "MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand"

gaze — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:01:08 +0000

for making research grade devices you barely need a cleanroom

New comment by gaze in "Tofolli gates are all you need"

gaze — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:30:38 +0000

You just need unitarity.

New comment by gaze in "Helium is hard to replace"

gaze — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:12:19 +0000

There are NO alternatives. There's nothing else that stays liquid at 4 K and absolutely nothing else comes close.

New comment by gaze in "Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water"

gaze — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:19:05 +0000

2d materials are so awful to work with but keep yielding these stunningly beautiful results so physicists must persist.

New comment by gaze in "Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart"

gaze — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:39:27 +0000

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

New comment by gaze in "P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems"

gaze — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:28:13 +0000

The power of quantum computing is constructing the solution to a problem out of an interference pattern. Classical probabilities don’t interfere, but quantum probabilities do. Loosely, quantum probabilities can be constructed to cancel, since their amplitudes can be negative.

Shor’s algorithm works on the quantum Fourier transform. The quantum Fourier transform works because you can pick a frequency out of a signal using a “test wave.” The test wave can select out the amplitude of interest because the information of the test wave constructively interferes, whereas every other frequency cancels. This is the interference effect that can only happen with complex/negative probability amplitudes.

New comment by gaze in "P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems"

gaze — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:45:49 +0000

The communication here is clear as mud. WHICH quantum systems? D-Wave? We know D-Wave is a joke!

New comment by gaze in "Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows"

gaze — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:14:12 +0000

I have a 556 and 547 that I still use. They work fine. They slowed down a bit from the resistors drifting but whatever. Still very fun to use and they heat the workspace in the winter.

New comment by gaze in "Ex-FTC chair Lina Khan joins Mamdani's transition team"

gaze — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:50:47 +0000

What's your objection to the tax increase. I think people are talking about it plenty and it seems generally non-objectionable.

New comment by gaze in "Ex-FTC chair Lina Khan joins Mamdani's transition team"

gaze — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:17:07 +0000

doom and gloom over the promise of free busses is a wild level of cynicism

New comment by gaze in "MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks"

gaze — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:04:15 +0000

It hit diminishing returns for most things long, long ago, but this physics is directly related to stuff in quantum computing and studying gravity.

New comment by gaze in "U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe"

gaze — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:47:12 +0000

There might be some argument that brews in this thread and I just want to say that it's nearly impossible to debate someone into believing they should care about people they don't know.

New comment by gaze in "How has mathematics gotten so abstract?"

gaze — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:20:48 +0000

The only things that are weird in math are things that would not be expected after understanding the definitions. A lot of the early hurdles in mathematics are just learning and gaining comfort with the fact that the object under scrutiny is nothing more than what it's defined to be.