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

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

Pretty sure a court told them to.

In higher math, sum and product don’t necessarily have anything to do with the sum and product we know, but are just operations with certain properties.

In this case, a product is just a collection of multiple types, e.g. a tuple. An example would be a pair of index (integer) and value (e.g. a string) when iterating over a list.

A sum on the other hand is more of an or. In many languages, this is called something like an enum. If for example, your program should support both integers and floating point numbers, you would need the sum type int | float.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.