Congratulations to these gentlemen. Now, among the very many subjects of which I’m ignorant, quantum computing has a secure place. However, I follow Scott Locklin’s blog and he recently posted what he calls the best quantum computing paper of 2025.
The paper is named “Replication of Quantum Factorization Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog.” That paper claims that, thus far, quantum computers have proven incapable of factoring even a two-digit number; 15 is used as an example.
Sounds like three angry liberal ladies with their panties in a wad, had nothing better to do one day than to make a scene for absolutely no rational reason!
A vast majority of Americans are so over this asinine “DEI Hill” these liberals want to die on! Get a life gurls… there’s way more important things to worry about than your butt hurt phraseology of Supremacy!
Did the billions spent on accelerators, etc., actually produce anything useful to humanity (not just scientists and contractors)? Maybe it takes decades to figure out what's prizeworthy (and replicable) and what isn't.
Nothing. The attempts to make abstract mathematics models tangible have kept their cartel flush with cash but provided no proof that any part of "physics" during the last 100 years even exists at all. I think it is a fairy tale and the future they promised will never arrive. But they will live happily ever after with our money and broken dreams.
Quantum experiments tend to be smaller and cheaper though. CERN is more a tool of particle physics for breaking matter into its smallest possible components.
The history of science and math shows there is often a big delay between knowledge and useful application to humanity. Besides that, there is this concept that if society doesn't try difficult things in science and technology, if we say where we are is so good we should just hold steady here, we will regress.
As with the post about feminists the other day, one of the glaring contradictions of the woke mindset is that small and oppressed subsets of society are as good as - nay, better - than any pale, stale male but are easily crushed by language they don't like.
As many others have noted, progressivism and its instincts about how society should be ordered are extremely feminine, and the centering of this mode of thought/conflict resolution across the West has been both an unprecedented experiment in ordering society and a total disaster. I believe Nicholas Wade has a new book out that touches on this, debating whether to pick it up or wait for the iSteve review.
Too funny. 'denounced the term “quantum supremacy” as terrifying Physicists of Color by reminding them of “white supremacy:” Okay, 'terrifying'? Yes, capitalize physicists of color. Why? Simply by bringing this up in this manner is terrifying in an of itself. Blacks do not own words. Time to grow up and resume being a scientist.
The UCLA Bruins football team pulled the upset of the season by defeating the 7th-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions 42-37 on Saturday despite being a 25-point underdog. There was serious talk that UCLA might go winless this season so after starting 0-4 they fired their coach, DEI alumnus DeShaun Foster.
The funny part was after the game when some of the 38,300 on hand stormed the field in celebration, which the security guards didn't appreciate as UCLA does not own the Rose Bowl. One security guard in particular made an ass out of himself by not only being grossly out of shape but also harassing a pre-teen girl and her father
One of my favorite groups from the '60s was called The Supremes, and they were a darker shade than pale. Do you think that the trio of shrewish scientists get the willies when they hear Diana sing? Does it remind them of Simon Legree?
LOL, the niggling nanominds' complaint to Nature followed by Preskill's starchy response adds fresh meeting to the term "white supremacy," i.e. white westerners have achieved heights of Discovery, invention and organization that no other race could even possibly approach.
Northern Europeans, the quantum supremacy of technological development.
Congratulations to these gentlemen. Now, among the very many subjects of which I’m ignorant, quantum computing has a secure place. However, I follow Scott Locklin’s blog and he recently posted what he calls the best quantum computing paper of 2025.
The paper is named “Replication of Quantum Factorization Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog.” That paper claims that, thus far, quantum computers have proven incapable of factoring even a two-digit number; 15 is used as an example.
Sounds like three angry liberal ladies with their panties in a wad, had nothing better to do one day than to make a scene for absolutely no rational reason!
A vast majority of Americans are so over this asinine “DEI Hill” these liberals want to die on! Get a life gurls… there’s way more important things to worry about than your butt hurt phraseology of Supremacy!
There are more important things.
Unfortunately, the liberals can't do any of them.
So they're going to go back to wadding their panties and making a scene. It's their only hill to die on.
Amen!
Every day they wake up victims and every night they go to bed victims! What a miserable life they must live!
No thanks…
Did the billions spent on accelerators, etc., actually produce anything useful to humanity (not just scientists and contractors)? Maybe it takes decades to figure out what's prizeworthy (and replicable) and what isn't.
Nothing. The attempts to make abstract mathematics models tangible have kept their cartel flush with cash but provided no proof that any part of "physics" during the last 100 years even exists at all. I think it is a fairy tale and the future they promised will never arrive. But they will live happily ever after with our money and broken dreams.
CERN uses on average 1.2 terawatt-hours of power annually, so there's that.
Quantum experiments tend to be smaller and cheaper though. CERN is more a tool of particle physics for breaking matter into its smallest possible components.
The World Wide Web is the first thing that comes to mind.
The history of science and math shows there is often a big delay between knowledge and useful application to humanity. Besides that, there is this concept that if society doesn't try difficult things in science and technology, if we say where we are is so good we should just hold steady here, we will regress.
It was a theme of "Interstellar"
Geopositioning satellites would be impossible without an understanding of quantum mechanics, so there's that.
Woke's got work to do. Think small.
As with the post about feminists the other day, one of the glaring contradictions of the woke mindset is that small and oppressed subsets of society are as good as - nay, better - than any pale, stale male but are easily crushed by language they don't like.
As many others have noted, progressivism and its instincts about how society should be ordered are extremely feminine, and the centering of this mode of thought/conflict resolution across the West has been both an unprecedented experiment in ordering society and a total disaster. I believe Nicholas Wade has a new book out that touches on this, debating whether to pick it up or wait for the iSteve review.
Ciration, please.
Too funny. 'denounced the term “quantum supremacy” as terrifying Physicists of Color by reminding them of “white supremacy:” Okay, 'terrifying'? Yes, capitalize physicists of color. Why? Simply by bringing this up in this manner is terrifying in an of itself. Blacks do not own words. Time to grow up and resume being a scientist.
I just pray that James Dewey Watson can live long enough to see the nattering nabobs of negativism rehabilitate him within his lifetime.
O/T
The UCLA Bruins football team pulled the upset of the season by defeating the 7th-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions 42-37 on Saturday despite being a 25-point underdog. There was serious talk that UCLA might go winless this season so after starting 0-4 they fired their coach, DEI alumnus DeShaun Foster.
The funny part was after the game when some of the 38,300 on hand stormed the field in celebration, which the security guards didn't appreciate as UCLA does not own the Rose Bowl. One security guard in particular made an ass out of himself by not only being grossly out of shape but also harassing a pre-teen girl and her father
https://x.com/CFBInsightsByAI/status/1974715605770289538
One of my favorite groups from the '60s was called The Supremes, and they were a darker shade than pale. Do you think that the trio of shrewish scientists get the willies when they hear Diana sing? Does it remind them of Simon Legree?
Supreme not supremacist. Obviously you don't grok how magic words work.
LOL, the niggling nanominds' complaint to Nature followed by Preskill's starchy response adds fresh meeting to the term "white supremacy," i.e. white westerners have achieved heights of Discovery, invention and organization that no other race could even possibly approach.
Perhaps Nature can make for this by identifying and lauding the black transgendered housekeeper from whom these men stole the ideas.