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An epistle to the physicists: When I was but a little lad, my father, a PhD physicist, warned me sternly against meddling in the affairs of physici...
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I want to take another step back in perspective from the last post to say a few words about what the radial acceleration relation (RAR) means and what it doesn't mean. Here it is again: The Radial Acceleration Relation over many decades. The grey region is forbidden - there cannot be less acceleration than caused...
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(see also pdf version) Quantum computing is one of the most exciting developments of computer science in the last decades. But this concept is not without its critics, often known as "quantum computing skeptics" or "skeptics" for short. The debate on quantum computing can sometimes confuse the physical and mathematical aspects of this question,...
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Update (Dec. 17): Some of you might enjoy a 3-hour podcast I recently did with Lawrence Krauss, which was uploaded to YouTube just yesterday. The first hour is about my life and especially childhood (!); the second hour's about quantum computing; the third hour's about computational complexity, computability, and AI safety. I'm being attacked on...
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