It's 1972. NY just went through a race riot because the power was off for 18 hours.

Airplane maintenance. You'll still need to know some math, but a couple years of experience performing structural QA, reading schematics, and getting familiar with sealants, bolts, materials, tubing and protocol could make you an attractive candidate.

Personally I dont think so, well at least not anytime soon. The problems are kinda major, short range low power are not exactly thrust characteristics anybody wants. It's also important to know that commercial aircraft have a substatial electrical system in place already, that both generates electricity, and powers motors to a degree. Seriously, combustion in a turbine is so efficient, making a biofuel from alcohol is a better solution, that uses existing technology, and gives performance on par with conventional systems.

However for air taxi's and such, quadrathopter esq people carriers in cities and shorter trips that can use a simple parachute in case of emergency will see some real implementation imo, but an actual "airliner" seems far fetched, unless you could use the electricity to replicate the heat produced by a combustion reaction, now that would be something.

Fungi are f'n strange. Ive said it before but people never really grasped the idea. They kinda self assemble, not like a plant or an animal, they need all the pieces, then they kinda manifest, animals and plants make pieces, then assemble... Bad job trying to say what I'm trying to say. But yeah fungi dont do it by combustion, animals and plants do it by oxidization, combustion, but they need perfect conditions. I know people are freaking out about how little they know about things, but fungi are pretty simple, vinegar is to them, what alcohol is to bacteria.

Anyway, this sounds hilarious to me, setting up a musroom wall is not as easy as compressing bricks, especially if you are boring, imagine studying this 15 years ago... then using geo sciences realizing top soil has an astounding amount of organic material in it, stufff just bubbels up out of the ground, you can light it on fire...

Then you get organic material less soil, there is none, little bit of water crystalizes into brick, then tube shape(an interlacing brick design) after a quick dehydrate, no need for fungi, but they do grow well in low light situations... i get it misheard, walls covered in fungi, not made out of fungi *burps*

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If I was reading that correctly, it has nothing to do with Quantum computers. It appears to be Azure (machine learning suite) applied to multiple computers to self assess machine learning gains, this is right up IBM's alley.

Lastly I'm not wasting it, but its not exactly coffee table topic.

In reality, this is faster than a haptics system, like scary fast. Sorry by haptics I meant like a VR remote control where you get feedback from objects. Also this thing is basically on rails, this is more or less a preplanned route with solutions provided, however it still is RTS cross examining performance. And fast... scary fast. Throwing the tool bag was the most difficult part, and at 500lbs it didnt break the floor, this is progress.

Yeah, I understood what you were saying. USB, is an interface, the rate at which data is transmitted is not effected by Quantum tunneling was my point. Last I checked nobody is building flash memory with special spacing or design to increase read and writes using this theory. Also, if it was used as a storage technique, you'd think it would have a different name, or a performance increase. Simply put, I'm not aware of this theory being used in any practical application... or any Quantum theory for that matter.

Interesting so USB accidentally incorporates quantum tunneling, shame its not as fast as a USB upgrade, like 3.0 versus 2.0. The fact that it's accidental, and slower, means that it could just be a theory, and probably not a good way to understand it. Also you agreed with me on the multi thread thing. However Quantum computers using a multi position "gate/switch" don't exist, thats all I was trying to say. Another reply I recieved outlined a micrsoft language called Q, it is a service of Azure, and not an actual multi gate language. However, the probability of Azure creating a multi gate language is much higher than people doing it, but I don't think that's its purpose. More importantly, we need a stable processor, which nobody has, I mean how else are you gonna test it. As soon as you hear -273 degrees to gain function, you should grasp.... it's not gonna work. Again thanks for the reply.

Oof, however Q isn't a quantum computer language, according to Microsoft...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/overview-what-is-qsharp-and-qdk

It is aparantly a Azure service using normal computers called quantum. Dunno. Thanks for the heads up.

Not aware of functional "Quantum" computers that use Qbits, instead of Si gates. So I have doubts IBM (or anyone) has one. There has been ZERO discussion relating to a programming language that can interact with that kind of processor. As far as Quantum as a whole, such as entanglement across distance in some sort of physics subspace sounds hilarious to me. The premise of Quantum as a science is that there are sub atomic paricles with varing rotations and orientations that effectively have 3 states of existence, and two of them we can't see or interact with. This is akin on some level to me, of 2/3 of my body not existing every once in a while based on un intentional change. Imagine getting accidently entageled with a star, a black hole or any celestial body, on accident, the results would be catastrophic. Ahkam's Razor, if we can do it on purpose, then it could happen accidentally, like climate change. People dont lose 2/3 of their mass periodically, nor have entageled on accident (get your head out of the gutter). Thanks for the break down on the article, I learned a while not to click on links i dont know, so I'm a bit hesitant. Lastly thanks for replying, I found this material super interesting, but could come up with easier methods of achieving the same behavior. A good read is a wiki on what started the pursuit of Quantum, something about a solar experiment in space that collected 1/3 as many nutrinos as expected, the obvious conclusion 2/3 were phasing in and out of existence?

Interesting, I've heard from very few people that dual thread cores were the "original" quantum breakthrough, that tidbit was swept under the rug very quickly. Not sure why. At the same time cross processing multiple threads to speed things up isn't necessarily a Quantum behavior. Put the gates close enough together it could very easily be induction, the charge in one gate being the same (1 or 0 (think of it as + or negative) but the same) or not the same gives the three states you need to get some benefit to multiple thread resolution as the proposed "Quantum" effect you just mentioned. Lastly, thanks for keeping it real.

Uhhhh, can't we already do these things? Teleportation is based off the word telephone, or vise versa, not sure dont care much, but that is energy teleportation, using wires, but so is induction. I'm not sure what is meant by negative energy, but light is energy, get your wavelengths right and it disappears, same with electricity, you can also use a vast majority of the EM spectrum to transmit energy, this is nothing new.

I have been wondering for some time what is so interesting about Quantum science, spent some time trying to figure it out, understand it, like fire and electricity (things I learned, not how to generate, but WHAT they are). It seems like hokey nonsense to me. I know there a major degrees awarded, and new discoveries made everyday, from dark matter, to dark energy, and they are spinning up particle accelerators with MeV's all the time, to try and understand it better. Here are some of my major issues, quantum behavior can be explained using EM, like induction. In theory, if you smash 2 protons together really hard, wouldnt you get a nuclear explosion? E=Mc^2, the difference in mass would be either the He formed, or the missing Proton, either way boom.

So why spend billions on paticle accelerators, I can tell you there is a reason, and I will not tell you what the reason is. So to be clear, Quantum seems hokey, particle accelerators are awesome and useful.

Cool, bro. I'm just a little jaded by Reddit these days. I mean we know some things about the Earth's core it's just wierd its still so hot. Also, it's density, it's almost like a gold lubricated iron convextion, that's more like a sun than a planet, has most of the gold and water in the solar system, and a magnetosphere thats even more astounding (than having 90% of a solar systems gold in one place, (might be the reason)). If thats not amazing enough, we have bugs, animals, people cars video games flat screen TV's Mario... It's f'n crazy sauce down here, just nutzo, and people think we know how it happened on accident... lolz - we dont

EDiT: The question is "if you could, would you"

My point, yeah suns are easier than black holes, we don't know what's going on with these things really, we dont know whats going on with the earths core (or any planets) we cant really make sense of poles, like North and South poles, those regions of axis, are f'n strank, and to me, it's wierd you think WE do. We don't.

Right on, we have no idea, we also have no idea what is going on in the center of the Earth. We also know almost nothing about the brain, but, we change thousand year weather patterns on accident, lol, that we know.

Listen I'm hearing Interstellar... Cameras, Event Horizons, Black Holes... It's nutzo. Why not talk about white holes, yeah, suns. The surface of a sun is LESS dramatic than a Black Hole, lots of gravity, lots more energy, and you are just gonna stick a camera in and pull it out, because the Event Horizion is ............

Anyway, all I'm saying is it IS easier to dip a camera into a sun, THAN a Black Hole.

I always find these headlines interesting. Last I checked "Quantum" computers don't exist, and the only way they could work in theory is at... absolute zero, just like cold fusion. Not even the issue I have really. Here is quantum computing fundamentals, in theory, at absolute zero.

A regular computer runs on switches, on or off, 2 positions. Originaly thats why they took up whole rooms, each one or zero was a literal glass tube. Well a quantum computer, fundamentally isn't a single position switch and if you were to think of it in terms of glass tubes, they could be accurately represented with fluid filled flasks, and the amount of fluid is it's position or state, so one flask could have ALOT of positions. So you could get alot more information per unit space than just binary (relating the position of one, to another) so they could be ALOT faster.

That's more or less the fundamentals of it. Here is my big problem with "using" them. What programming language did you use, poly position programming (non binary if you will) doesn't exist, and we don't even have a functional chip to develop one. Yet somehow, a car company, is cross referencing molecular interchanges of elements to research better ways of making batteries... on the side, with their quantum computer (that doesn't work) and a programming language nobody has even thought about building. Seems a bit sus, but it is popular science, they mix in sci-fi more than randomly and it does add entertainment value, I'm prolly just taking quantum computing wayy too seriously, lol.

Corruption does exist, I wasn't trying to say it doesn't. I was just saying I don't think this is it. People are upset at golfers for this same thing. However, they are also making 5 years winnings in months, do you think they did it for the money? Or to make a stand for corruption, human rights violations, media profiles, product placement? Ukranians are dropping grenades on sleeping people everyday, thats cool, but, hire somebody to build a building for 60x the wage they could earn at home, that's evil. C'mon.

At some point in time you are gonna have to make sense.

I don't think it's corruption. I thought I made that clear enough. Listen we ALL know what is going on, from LIV to this. These people, organizations, institutions, clubs and individuals, do what they do... for money, same as anybody. That isn't corruption in my book. I think of it like this, you have two burgers to make, same burger, same toppings, whatever, identical. One pays YOU $2, the other pays YOU $40, which do you chose to make? Did you read my original (now extremely downvoted) post?

I think you need to look at the definition of "under the table", there is no table, there is no over or under, or disclosed. I think you are just dense, intentionally, to harp about people making money off of you.

I think you need to look at the definition of "under the table".

Not an insult to me, I really dont give an F.

Dunno maybe I have a different idea of corruption. The reason there IS a WC, is because of money, I was fairly certain most people understood this. They do this, to make money, get paid, and to me that isn't corruption. They dont do it for fun, they don't do it to highlite human social issues, political reform, or to set an example of a perfectly random system. Just my quick take, to suggest it's corrupt is as silly as saying they should do it for free.

Corruption? Man that's not a nice thing to say. Listen I'm not saying this is even a decent rollout, it's Quatar, and without oil money, is a very different place, like the rest of the Middle East, but people willing to work for more money isn't corruption. All selection processes take into account many factors, and on this scale, they are not picking a name at random out of a hat. Just saying, calling this corrupt instead of getting paid I think is an insult... and I dont even like soccer, or Quatar very much, however I do support decisions that generate exchanges that are beneficial for the parties involved. I mean if you were expecting it to be random names drawn from a lotto, then it "could" be in London every time, and not corruption.

It just dawned on me, we have 4 gas giants in our solar system. Most of the inner planets have relatively transparent atmospheres, and terrain that takes millions of years to really ... move around/change. A gas giant by comparison, is moving around and changing every hour of everyday in the range of thousands of miles. If you think of it in terms of entertainment value, mars is basically an aquarium with some rocks in it, a gas giant is basicaly a lava lamp...