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Cake day: September 29th, 2024

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  • Which one was yours? Looks like the mods agree it wasn’t conducive to the environment they want.

    Would you proudly tell the women and enbies in your life about the comment on a woman’s body you left on the internet? And ultimately even if, in the context of a friendship, and the folks you associate with, this would be taken well, don’t you think it’s worth listening when people say you’re being creepy and off putting?



  • Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete.

    Its director, Michael Cuthbert, told the BBC he was wary of language that fuelled the “hype cycle” and thought Willow was more a “milestone rather than a breakthrough”.

    Frustrating that the article seems to pretty heavily focus on pop sci talk about quantum rather than actual point of what they’ve made. The actual news being methods that “present device performance that, if scaled, could realize the operational requirements of large scale fault-tolerant quantum algorithms.”