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New comment by silentmafia in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

silentmafia — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:39:59 +0000

another excellent agency for mr. president to target

New comment by silentmafia in "Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers"

silentmafia — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:01:04 +0000

Well at this point I would say it’s you that’s being unscientific.

New comment by silentmafia in "Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers"

silentmafia — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:42:43 +0000

Ok, fake science...? It's not reeally fake.. Not more fake than how ever many hallucinated papers there are out there^^ (what I mean is that the scientific process is technically being followed).

Also, the dress up is done mostly by marketing and by the big egos in the field who think that because 5 big discoveries where made in the field then every discovery is a big discovery.

That being said, research in quantum computers has contributed to adjacent fields: cryo, lasers, controls, probably semiconductor too..

And on real world value, I am not fully caught up on the improvements currently offered say in optimization problems, but definitely there's definitely real contributions in quantum communications.

So... maybe you don't appreciate the contributions but there have been some.

New comment by silentmafia in "Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers"

silentmafia — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:02:02 +0000

I guess these are the kind of updates we are getting on Quantum Computing these days ^^'

New comment by silentmafia in "Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers"

silentmafia — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:01:18 +0000

ok, a bit harsh aren't we? what fields aren't "scam" anyway?

Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?

silentmafia — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:48:18 +0000

E.g. what if someone prompts an LLM to solve the Riemann hypothesis using this or that approach; and the model actually solves it. Who gets the prize?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940723

Points: 9

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New comment by silentmafia in "Never argue with your boss (2009)"

silentmafia — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:16:43 +0000

yet the salaries impose hierarchies..

New comment by silentmafia in "Never argue with your boss (2009)"

silentmafia — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:03:41 +0000

This hits close to home.

In academia arguing is sort of your job, or at least part of it.

So when a supervisor can't/won't understand their student's argument, the situation feels very futile.

Probably there's examples of constructive resolutions somewhere out there

New comment by silentmafia in "Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP"

silentmafia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:01:21 +0000

Or, P=NP

New comment by silentmafia in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"

silentmafia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:59:06 +0000

A 2010 entry by the same author:

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

New comment by silentmafia in "Solving Wordle using information theory"

silentmafia — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:41:20 +0000

Nobody mentions that this was already done by 3Blue1Brown?

https://youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA