particles in our universe behave quantum mechanically. you can measure this explicitly. it tells us that certain "observables" of particles such as position and momentum can't be measured separately from each other, you can think of it as a vector, if you know more of the position you know less of the momentum and vice versa.
if you study the math of this, it forms something called a "Lie algebra", the generators of this algebra for certain types of observables are the pauli matrices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_matrices
You can use these for the basis vectors in quantum computation. Basically you're using the nuts and bolts of reality to execute computations. These are called qubits.
The way you do this is to perform a sequence of unitary gate operations in this basis, which you can think of as transformations of the particles amplitude (complex valued probability-like waves). Once you performed a bunch of operations, you can measure the result (born rule) to get a non-complex value out. This is equavalent to wavefunction collapse in physics. In the double slit experiment its like trying to observe one path of a particle vs the other.
Anyways, if you construct your algorithm so that correct answers constructively interfere with each other, and incorrect answers destructively interfere, you can create a measurement to get answers that classical computers cannot do. This is because the amount of states in quantum amplitudes can be much higher than the number of states in classical computers, or even particles in the universe. So you can get speedups over classical computations in ways that people are still wrapping their noggin around.
Here’s a quirky take - qubits are like life, not so binary. In superposition, they're like your younger wild self full of possibilities and contradictions and experiencing all at once. In entanglement, it has a romantic shade like couples growing old together - one knows what the other is thinking or feeling, one’s emotional state affects the other and there’s a deep bond of understanding. Like penguins who mate for life (well, not really, but close!), entangled connection forms a bond so deep that it feels unbreakable.
The early days when I was using iris, it had a nostr band incorporated and search was a great feature to read abt new topics talked abt on nostr but eventually it got too slow. Now I only head to nostr.band as a separate entity when I need to look back for my old book reviews. A flexible search approach is a good way to look for topics, like minded people etc. If the backend database is agile, it would also be able to customize trending topics based on relays and if relays can be split between personal, private and public, then it can cater to country-based or interest-based trending topics etc. Search on twitter is something I use when I want to have direct perspectives of what the domain-interest folks share about that specific topic. Many things can be expanded from search function but mostly it can be a tool to find like minded folks and content broadcast based on individual interest.
search function is a highly underestimated feature
My weekend was slightly diff - the people in my country were able to overthrow a draconian internet suppression law within 2 days by voicing it out on twitter. Want people to leave twitter ? don’t badger people out of it - build something that is of value for the people to attract them.
Nostr had the opportunity to test out public town square last week but instead of using that precious chance to improve nostr (bridging like-mindedness, privacy etc), I only kept hearing complaints abt other platforms, justifications for shortcomings and even pissing on users for sharing their thoughts.
You can fund people, but you can't buy mindset - that has to be developed from within. People don’t have obligations to be here - some of us have to figure out money to survive this week, next week while keeping oppressive gov’ts in check, and build at the same time.
If you want people here, don’t expect them to owe you gratitude, don’t expect them to stop their means of preventing oppressiveness now just because you hope to build something in the future that you may or may not be committed to all the way. If you want to genuinely help people, get to know who you are building for and what they need - instead of stroking some self-saviour-like ego.
You did not need to succumb to twitter quitting pressure, but it's good that it gave you an opportunity to figure out what you want.
Also if you can’t stop yourself from opening twitter for the weekend and it had to be so dramatic that you had to deactivate your account, you are quite addicted lol! But you can use it as an opportunity to practice self-restraint. At the end of the day, what matters is how you make the most out of any situation.
My favourite part of a book is the book dedication. While the book drives the main content, there’s that hidden layer of intimacy that goes behind the scene - those who stood by and trusted when it was just blank-pages, when ideas were raw and unshaped, patient while the job gets done, and there to celebrate when it's a wrap. There's so much story to tell from a book, but it's that personal journey that happens behind the scenes that I find to be incredibly sweet and telling.
Meet Miles Cooper (named by my nephews after some spiderman guy or some superheroes). This one belongs to my sister and he is so adorable. Only 2 months and he is already 7kg, and sooo cute!
Thanks for compiling walker. Grateful for this nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. I don’t know if this is common in other countries but in mine, the gov't has mandated that all corporate DNS queries, and personal DNS queries using Google and Cloudflare be redirected through gov't-approved DNS servers by the end of this month. This could intercept TLS and decrypt traffic. Wild, huh? The reason is to prevent people from accessing porn sites, scams etc - but we all know this is the beginning of extreme suppression. I don’t know if VPN works - the gov’t has a network perimeter where they can tap into the ISP core network and monitor things, similar to how most countries do network sniffing. The idea of end-to-end encryption and having your own key to sign in and how devices talk to each other (protocols) will make significant strides in the future. Its just crazy what's happening to the world today - falling to suppression like dominoes
In an unexpected turn of event, the mandate is retracted for now. People were fussing on twitter, and when there were threats on limiting speech, more rallied on, to a point they could not ignore. I think this kind of public town square is when democracy comes right - the voices of people coming together are heard loud and clear. But no telling what’s next, the debate between free speech and fake speech often distracts free will and thoughts. Gov’t hijacking transport and application layers is scary - and we could use liberation of protocol stacks, end to end encryption with key signage, de-identifying data and more. I would love for simplification of personal relays on Nostr in establishing privacy and data ownership, and various avenues to bring together like minded people and town squares. More suppression would lead to more people looking for freedom tools. Thank you for building one and supporting many others.
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Thanks for compiling walker. Grateful for this nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. I don’t know if this is common in other countries but in mine, the gov't has mandated that all corporate DNS queries, and personal DNS queries using Google and Cloudflare be redirected through gov't-approved DNS servers by the end of this month. This could intercept TLS and decrypt traffic. Wild, huh? The reason is to prevent people from accessing porn sites, scams etc - but we all know this is the beginning of extreme suppression. I don’t know if VPN works - the gov’t has a network perimeter where they can tap into the ISP core network and monitor things, similar to how most countries do network sniffing. The idea of end-to-end encryption and having your own key to sign in and how devices talk to each other (protocols) will make significant strides in the future. Its just crazy what's happening to the world today - falling to suppression like dominoes
i used to dabble in micro and milimeter waves as an engineer, i am self learning nanotech for my own projects given signal measurements has made significant advancement with nanotech circuits penetrating the market. What piqued your interest on nanotech ?
I watched The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and read the book over 15 years ago. It was incredibly emotional at that time knowing he was going to die. Watching this again after so long - i don't know if you have watched The Last Lecture, but its one of the most amazing piece on self reflection and inspiration.
Some of my favorite quotes by Randy Pausch :
1. Some brick walls are there for a reason, they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. When you are screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they gave up.
3. If you're going to do anything pioneering, you'll get arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it.
4. When you've had something for 10 years that you hold so precious, it's the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. The only advice I can give is to find somebody better than you to hand it to.
5. The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self-reflective.
6. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I've done it my whole career, and the 'head fake' here is that they're learning to program, but they just think they're making movies and video games.
7. Anybody who is out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedroom, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be okay.
8. I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying, and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left because there's no other way to play it.
9. Decide if you are a Tiger on an Eeyore.
10. Never lose the childlike wonder.
11. It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
12. Loyalty is a two-way street.
13. When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
14. Never give up. I didn't get into Brown University; I was on the waitlist. I called them up, and they eventually decided it was getting really annoying to have me call every day, so they let me in. At Carnegie Mellon, I didn't get into graduate school. Andy [my mentor] had said, 'Go to graduate school; you're going to Carnegie Mellon. All my good students go to Carnegie Mellon.' No one knows this until today. I'm telling the story. I was declined admission to Carnegie Mellon, and I went into Andy's office and dropped the rejection letter on his desk. I said, 'I just want you to know what your letter of recommendation goes for at Carnegie Mellon.' Before the letter had hit his desk, his hand was on the phone, and he said, 'I will fix this.
15. You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma; I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term—earnest is long term. Apologize when you screw up, and focus on other people, not on yourself.
16. Don’t bail. The best of the gold at the the bottom of the barrel of crap.
17. Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great person who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is listening to it. Anybody can get chewed out, but it's the rare person who says, 'Oh my God, you're right,' as opposed to, 'No, wait, the real reason is...' We've all heard that. When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
18. Don't complain; just work harder. All right? There's a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even when the fans spit on him.
19. Work Hard. I got tenure a year earlier. Junior faculty members used to say to me, 'Wow, you got tenure early—what's your secret?' I said, 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock and I'll tell you.
20. Find the best in everybody. One of the things that John Snotty [a colleague] told me is that you might have to wait a long time - sometimes years - but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting. No matter how long it takes, no one is all evil.
21. Be prepared, luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity
22. Did you figure out the head fake? It's not about how to achieve your dreams; it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.
23. Have you figured out the second head fake? The talk's not for you; it's for my kids. Thank you all. Good night.
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Sometimes we get caught up focusing on a single tech, only to later realize that many others have matured in parallel. I think a skill that is rare and important is the ability to mix and match these innovations in hardware, software, AI and other fields in order to advance our original work. But that would also mean we would have to relearn on a system level while understanding each tech independently to integrate effectively. It's definitely not an easy feat which is why its rare, but I think interdisciplinary thinking often drives transformative innovations, and to achieve this, curiosity, agility, creativity and resilience is key
The AI space is growing exponentially - like inception, tech building building tech, or a prelude to AGI
I get your worries on client dependency to coordinate, and notes not being shared broadly via the outbox model. My suggestion doesn't change the outbox model but rather optimizes it. It would not be able to solve the broadcasting issue, but it can resolve many other concerns.
The idea is more like “Relay-as-a-Service (RaaS)” concept whereby you have a personal relay that is more lightweight as it only stores your notes, messages etc compared to general relays that store all the data. You can have this hosted locally for security purposes or relay devs can expand their service to "cloud" for users who don't want to host locally, just because or for safety reasons.
When you send data, someone else who has some common relays with you will be able to view it.
It can be cross synched to your other devices like will's idea or use IoT concept like LoRa or Zigbee or regular wifi but might need some network protocal synch
To enhance privacy, clients can also enhance UX for users who want to share both privately and globally presuming what they share is limited to selected relays or not visible to the public.
Users can delete their own notes but it might need some protocol to delete notes that are temporarily or permanently stored anywhere else.
Users can also upgrade storage capacity or use external relays for specific functions (images, video stage, streaming etc) to ensure modularity and scalability.
The overall idea is to not only optimize data storage, but also gives users full control of their own data (delete, edit, privacy etc).
i was trying to look up for the conversation we had last on this but might be a long time back - bunking in on this note.
I was just wondering, would there be an easier way where i can have my relay that just stores my data (notes and messages (sent and received)) and all other relays can be used as your transmitter. Some benefits :
- It would lessen the need of my computer - i wouldn't need some massive server capacity to run a relay.
- And if i need to sync up between my phone and computer, we can use Will's idea.
- I don't have to depend on other relays to store/ clear data.
- I can delete whatever I have written.
- I have control over my data.
- If i need more storage for videos etc then either i increase my own capacity or use other relays (free/private)
From a user perspective, it would be easier is users just need to assume it works like installing an app to install the operation to run your own relay.
I haven't fully thought through this yet and I don't know enough - but just a thought
One of the greatest feelings is doing something kind for someone who will never know it was you. Spread a bit of kindness today, you never know who needs it. A little bit of goodness in life goes a long way ❤️
