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My podcast with Brian Greene
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Yes, he’s the guy from The Elegant Universe book and TV series. Our conversation is 1 hour 40 minutes; as usual I strongly recommend listening at 2x speed. The topics, chosen by Brian, include quantum computing (algorithms, hardware, error-correction … the works), my childhood, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the current state of AI, the future of sentient life in the cosmos, and mathematical Platonism. I’m happy with how it turned out; in particular, my verbal infelicities seem to have been at a minimum this time. I recommend skipping the YouTube comments if you want to...
Program or Be Programmed — Live Launch Party
You’re invited to a live and live-streamed book party!
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Programming the World
A webinar with me and Matt Klein about Program or Be Programmed, Fifteen Years Later
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Concentric
Early in September we were contacted by Luke of ArtHub the art studio group. They have been operating fairly priced artist studio spaces in Deptford and Woolwich for 25 years. The Creekside studio building they lease has recently been sold and is due for redevelopment as flats etc. ArtHub have got ahead of the game and negotiated a 5 year tenancy with Lewisham Council for 100 studios + at the Mornington Centre .
SPC have been reanimating the legacy ethernet infrastructure to redistribute broadband via the RJ45 wall ports and sprinkling of wireless access for all those due to take up...
My Nutty, Extremist Beliefs
In nearly twenty years of blogging, I’ve unfortunately felt more and more isolated and embattled. It now feels like anything I post earns severe blowback, from ridicule on Twitter, to pseudonymous comment trolls, to scary and aggressive email bullying campaigns. Reflecting on this, though, I came to see that such strong reactions are an understandable response to my extremist stances. When your beliefs smash the Overton Window into tiny shards like mine do, what do you expect? Just consider some of the intransigent, hard-line stances I’ve taken here on Shtetl-Optimized:
(1) US politics. I’m terrified of...
Пятый полет Starship
Просто нет слов. Пятый испытательный полет Starship прошел как по маслу. Запустили с первой попытки. Все двигатели отработали все включения как надо. Starship сел в запланированном месте в Индийском океане, прямо рядом с буйком, - в результате у нас теперь есть видео посадки со стороны. Ну и самое интересное - поймали бустер с первой попытки, как будто он всегда так и летал:
Starship, конечно, подгорел при входе в атмосферу, но вроде как меньше чем в прошлый раз. Довести посадку с орбитальной скорости до обыденности потребует не один десяток полетов.
Еще было бы здорово научиться разгонять ловцов креветок из зоны запуска хотя-бы за полчаса до T-0. А то как то...
Другие новости 11:11 (октябрь ’24 часть 1 из 3 )
Очередной выпуск новостей о событиях, формирующих наше другое будущее… (Подробности о проекте см. тут )
Содержание выпуска:
0. Вольфганг Паули и универсальный язык воды 1. Десять книг для полезного чтения: список от WSJ 2. Волны в море: подмена слов вместо новой парадигмы 3. Возвращение квантовой теории к реальности и здравому смыслу 4. Локализация и фундаментальная физика Андерсона 5. Осциллоны, жонглирующие каплей, и при чём здесь Шеннон6. Аналоги ядерной физики и космологии в бассейне воды
7. Порфирион и мегаструктуры космоса
8. Космологическая сцепленность спинов галактик и квазаров
9. Биологическая сцепленность китов на расстоянии сотни миль
10. Искусственный интеллект и беседы с китами
11. Разум животных и Новый язык
12. Книга о другой гравитации и...
reStacked
It’s now been 2 years since we first rescued Yoshi Stack from his Peckham flat and to mark the occasion of his birthday, we unpacked and expanded sets of the collection onto empty desks in Toproom of Limehouse Town Hall for more public review and reflection.
Over three days we met with friends and delighted in the astonishment and enjoyment of those who visited to delve deeper and look further into Yoshi’s Stack of Cameras, Artworks, Journals and Photographs.
The process of exploration and rationalisation on such a collection is ongoing and the search for a suitable exhibition space is on. Please...
My October 7 post
For weeks I agonized over what, if anything, this post should say. How does one commemorate a tragedy that isn’t over for millions of innocents on either side? How do I add to what friend-of-the-blog Boaz Barak and countless others have already written?
Do I review the grisly details of Black Shabbat, tell the stories of those murdered or still held hostage? Do I rage about the shocking intelligence and operational failures that allowed it to happen? Talk about the orders-of-magnitude spikes in antisemitic incidents all over the world in the past year, which finally answered the question of whether...
Quantum advantage for NP approximation? For REAL this time?
The other night I spoke at a quantum computing event and was asked—for the hundredth time? the thousandth?—whether I agreed that the quantum algorithm called QAOA was poised revolutionize industries by finding better solutions to NP-hard optimization problems. I replied that while serious, worthwhile research on that algorithm continues, alas, so far I have yet to see a single piece of evidence that QAOA outperforms the best classical heuristics on any problem that anyone cares about. (Note added: in the comments, Ashley Montanaro shares a paper with empirical evidence that QAOA provides a modest polynomial speedup over known classical heuristics...