Chrobin

@Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de
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I recently was in the BMW museum and they actually had a whole section dedicated to their Nazi past and how they want to never do that again. Do with that what you will but at least they're not shoving it under the carpet.

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Every other year the EU tries to pass another mass surveillance law - and the EU court of human rights rules it illegal.

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It's afro American sociolect.

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Watch everyone forget that correlation doesn't equal causation when it confirms their biases.

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Pretty sure a court told them to.

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I think the main advantages over C are:

  • better tooling
  • modern syntax
  • by default, pointers must be non-null. You have to specify if you want to use null pointers
  • better exception handling using the functional style of exceptions-as-values

There are probably more, but those are the ones I remember.

Obviously, the apartment with the Confederate flag has a swastika inside.

I am a physicist and truly appreciate the effect of quantum computing on our simulations, but with "real world" I meant proper industrial use. And for that, there are hardly any algorithms known except Shor's. When the CEO of Deutsche Bank says he will do his bank transactions on a quantum computer, you know the topic is over-hyped.

Edit: A video that explains this by a theoretical physicist working on the foundations of quantum mechanics

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Well, you can describe a circle with a single function if you look at a function R -> R^2. But a circle can't be the graph of a single function.

I had to derive osmotic pressure for my statistical mechanics exam in my bachelor's. So in what sense don't we know?

I know that. But we still need to support the companies that do shit we want, so it's more profitable to do so.

Many people are trying to give a definitive answer, and there are good theories, but honestly, it is still very much an open question. There are multiple interpretations and as people tend to do in popular science, some spread their opinion as a fact, but we don't have one correct answer.

Wtf? I had a very buggy experience. Maybe it was because I was playing it in multiplayer, but I had glitches every 20 minutes and it crashed like every other hour.

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Well, except Pokémon. But we don't talk about Pokémon.

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So in Germany, only medical doctors are allowed to prescribe medicine, and therapists are not doctors, but psychologists. Medicine against psychological issues are prescribed by psychiatrists (Psychiater), who are doctors focused on psychology. As far as I know, you are usually referred to a psychiatrist by a therapist, but I'm not sure on that point.

Has to be Debussy and Chopin for me.

But they don't use Bluetooth.

It is Bayerische Motoren Werke. Funnily enough, that's wrong orthography, it should be Bayerische Motorenwerke, so you have a point.

CP symmetry has been experimentally measured to be violated. What we still believe is that our world is invariant under CPT symmetry.

Honestly, I could see Jacob Collier doing just that.

Correction: It's Sagittarius A*

I host Nextcloud on Hetzner. It's about 5€ for 1TB. You have the privacy of Nextcloud, but they upgrade it for you and so on. Just a heads up: You don't have access to the shell on the machine.

In that case I assume it would be 0 Rankine without degrees, too? Because it's an absolute unit like Kelvin.

She might have strong opinions on particle physics and I do take them with a grain of salt, but I don't see objectively wrong things in there.

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Maybe I just mixed up the fact that proper industrial use is vastly overestimated/overhyped with that there is little use. I will do some research.

Thank you for the explanation!

There's also WYGIWYW ("What You Get Is What You Want") and is primarily used for latex, because you give up some manual control for a (allegedly) better looking result.

Most of the time? Doesn't it mainly lag when moving to a different region? It also looks really good.

Yeah, you're technically right, but everyone just fully associates Pokémon with Nintendo.

More precisely: If you repeatedly draw values from a probability distribution and sum them up, the sum tends towards a Gaussian (central limit theorem).

Thanks for this productive discourse, not ad hominem at all. You're welcome to criticize my views and I'm happy to learn. And I am doing my physics masters, so I think I am no complete idiot. But this is also not productive.

Edit: I'm focusing on cosmology, I'm not claiming to be a quantum computing expert. That was just my last state of knowledge and I'm always happy to learn.

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I don't think I was talking about this, interesting. Because in the video I mentioned she was fine with trans athletes competing together with cis athletes, which seemed very progressive to me. But I'm happy to be proven wrong.

Are you talking about her video on trans athletes? I don't remember it being transphobic.

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How about If You're Here by Cornelius?

For that, you need Hilbert spaces, linear operators on them, a little spectral theory, ...

Could someone explain how paying a person not to publicly talk about what you did is illegal? If a company does this, it's called NDA. Is it because prostitution is illegal in the US?

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Currently, there is basically only one real world application we really know: Factoring numbers into prime factors. And we can't know for sure whether there will be more even.

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