Back up your #Bitcoin 🧡

There is a better way to interact with our fellow humans. Each clause below is worthy of serious thought, and honest heart-examination:

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Q. 144. What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?

A. The duties required in the ninth commandment are:

the preserving and promoting of truth between man and man, and the good name of our neighbor, as well as our own;

appearing and standing for the truth;

and from the heart, sincerely, freely, clearly, and fully, speaking the truth, and only the truth, in matters of

judgment and justice, and in all other things whatsoever;

a charitable esteem of our neighbors;

loving, desiring, and rejoicing in their good name;

sorrowing for and covering of their infirmities;

freely acknowledging of their gifts and graces, defending their innocency;

a ready receiving of a good report, and unwillingness to admit of an evil report, concerning them;

discouraging talebearers, flatterers, and slanderers;

love and care of our own good name, and defending it when need requireth;

keeping of lawful promises;

studying and practicing of whatsoever things are true, honest, lovely, and of good report.

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Hmmmmm he says

"Good example of why I like X:

Nostr's frog.. 🐸💜

“I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things.

They say they did a computation on a ca 100 qubit chip much faster than a conventional (super)computer could do. The particular calculation in question is to produce a random distribution. The result of this calculation has no practical use.

They use this particular problem because it has been formally proven (with some technical caveats) that the calculation is difficult to do on a conventional computer (because it uses a lot of entanglement). That also allows them to say things like "this would have taken a septillion years on a conventional computer" etc.

It's exactly the same calculation that they did in 2019 on a ca 50 qubit chip. In case you didn't follow that, Google's 2019 quantum supremacy claim was questioned by IBM pretty much as soon as the claim was made and a few years later a group said they did it on a conventional computer in a similar time.

So while the announcement is super impressive from a scientific pov and all, the consequences for everyday life are zero. Estimates say that we will need about 1 million qubits for practically useful applications and we're still about 1 million qubits away from that.

Also, it's been a recurring story that we have seen numerous times in the past years, that claims of quantum "utility" or quantum "advantage" or quantum "supremacy" or whatever you want to call it later evaporate because some other group finds a clever way to do it on a conventional computer after all.”