[Cyphon]

The site is back up!

[Mentalist]

Ukraine wins a Euros game for the first time since 2012.

We're not even close to being through yet, but as someone who watched all 3 2:0 losses live in 2016.... I'm very pleased with the progress the team made. Even if we did drop points folishly in the Netherlands game.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Lumber prices have 'plummeted'... and mortgage (interest) rates continue going down.

Internet based on quantum entanglement beckons. More generally looks like I may not have jumped the gun by too far by investing in quantum computing---at least relative to the amounts that others, including governments, are now investing (quantum computing arms race between US and China, with Germany trying to catch up by way of IBM? wonderful, and they're not even developing weapons of mass destruction (or at least of mass murder... so far... IDK that quantum machine learning would help all that much with killer AI, though it might excel at designing new pathogens, etc.)).

Meanwhile, I've been spared from potentially spending hours scouring my apartment for the new SIM card I was going to use... after realizing smartphone hardware has progressed to the point where a virtual 'eSIM card' can be used with my smartphone instead.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 June 2021 - 09:03 PM

[Malankazooie]

Little break in the oppressive heat today. Was glad for it because I wasn't looking forward to mowing the lawn and doing yard work in that.

[Slow Ben]

DND night baby.

Starting a new modernish post apocalyptic campaign with my Chonurgy Wizard, Collins.

Yassss

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Slow Ben, on 19 June 2021 - 05:53 PM, said:

DND night baby.

Starting a new modernish post apocalyptic campaign with my Chonurgy Wizard, Collins.

Yassss

Oh you must mean Chronurgy.

Chonurgy would be more Chaos + Con (= Drumpfjesus is Magich?...).

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Artificial intelligence speeds forecasts to control fusion experiments

[...] By optimizing the heating and shaping of the plasma scientists will be able to more effectively study key aspects of the development of burning plasmas—largely self-heating fusion reactions—that will be critical for [...] future fusion reactors.

[...]

"This is a step toward what we should do to optimize the actuators," [...]

[...] Reproducing fusion energy on Earth would create a virtually inexhaustible supply of safe and clean power to generate electricity.

"While physics-based models [...] exist," he said, "they are not appropriate for real-time decision making. They take way too long to calculate and are not as accurate as we need them to be."

[...]

The machine learning model addresses both issues. "It has learned to make predictions from thousands of observed profiles in the PPPL tokamaks and has made associations between combinations of inputs and outputs of actual data," [...] Once trained, the model takes less than one thousandth of a second to evaluate. The speed of the resulting model could make it useful for many real-time applications'

https://phys.org/new...nce-fusion.html

'One key area of interest is how quantum computers might affect machine learning. We recently demonstrated experimentally that quantum computers are able to naturally solve certain problems with complex correlations between inputs that can be incredibly hard for traditional, or "classical", computers. This suggests that learning models made on quantum computers may be dramatically more powerful for select applications, potentially boasting faster computation, better generalization on less data, or both. Hence it is of great interest to understand in what situations such a "quantum advantage" might be achieved.

[...] There are a number of algorithms for which quantum computers are suspected to have overwhelming advantages, such as [...] the quantum simulation of quantum systems.

[...]
We show that learning algorithms equipped with data from a quantum process, such as a natural process like fusion or chemical reactions, form a new class of problems (which we call BPP/Samp) that can efficiently perform some tasks that traditional algorithms without data cannot'

https://www.googblog...-power-of-data/

Quantum computing -> quantum machine learning -> fusion....

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[Tsundoku]

Azath Vitr (D, on 25 June 2021 - 03:16 AM, said:

Quantum computing -> quantum machine learning -> fusion....

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[Tiste Simeon]

Not that anyone noticed I was gone but I've logged back into the forum for the first time in a few weeks.

I hear the place had a meltdown in my absence. I'm not saying the two are linked, but...

[worry]

Tiste Simeon, on 25 June 2021 - 09:44 PM, said:

Not that anyone noticed I was gone but I've logged back into the forum for the first time in a few weeks.

I hear the place had a meltdown in my absence. I'm not saying the two are linked, but...

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 25 June 2021 - 09:44 PM, said:

Not that anyone noticed I was gone but I've logged back into the forum for the first time in a few weeks.

I hear the place had a meltdown in my absence. I'm not saying the two are linked, but...

Sorry mate, I assumed you were off doing Boris' work somewhere. You know, crushing freedoms, protecting the elites interests and all that.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 26 June 2021 - 11:09 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Boris has no jurisdiction here! So I just crush freedoms cos it's fun!

[Tsundoku]

Speaking of peace and quiet, we just went into a 3 day lockdown. At least half of the country is now in a short (thus far) lockdown.

Hopefully ol' Delta doesn't get too far out of hand.

I actually enquired about getting a Pfizer jab but was told it's via chain of command, and with all these other units and people with higher priority it may be a while.
I could go to a local GP (which I haven't been to in 14 years) after lockdown but I let my Medicare card lapse years ago. Ah well.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Was thinking of going to a block party that's a bit of a PIA to travel to (only about 30 minutes though)... thankfully they have a livestream of the event with multiple camera angles and it looks almost empty. Possibly because of the expected rain. Music's not really my 'cup of meat' but it's okay. Was torn between that party and an outdoors show that's easier to get to anyway---think the show's winning out now... tbh I'd rather stay in but I'd suppose 'it's good for me'. Maybe I should just start walking around in the more crowded parts of the city a bit each day to get my human exposure / desensitization / in-person social practice (video isn't quite the same---though maybe I should try VR).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 03 July 2021 - 06:38 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Figured out what colors to wear for the 4th of July---yellow, green, and black. (The opposite end of the spectrum from each of the US's traditional gang colors.) With some gray.

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 03 July 2021 - 11:05 PM, said:

Lmao has anyone else seen the Billy/Gizmo/Gremlins commercial for Mountain Dew? Pretty funny. I wonder if they are hinting at something with it or not?

There's a new cartoon version coming in the Fall i think. Not sure what audience it's intended for.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

My brother is well into House of Chains now - and he just asked me his first question about the timeline Ah, the innocence of youth...

[Traveller]

I've just started The God is not Willing and damn if it isn't just picking up and carrying on the Malazan story following tCG. Having a shitty and stressful week but this is a ray of sunshine right now.

[Mentalist]

Grandparents made it back home. My mom is starting to relax, and there's a possibility that she'll slowly get back to normal.

Being able to have suppers in the backyard again is nice. This is obviously soured by the realization that my grandma is eating herself to death and we're pretty powerless to stop it, but for the moment, there are the little, immediate things to enjoy.

[QuickTidal]

Traveller, on 06 July 2021 - 02:05 PM, said:

I've just started The God is not Willing and damn if it isn't just picking up and carrying on the Malazan story following tCG. Having a shitty and stressful week but this is a ray of sunshine right now.

Good to know. I have it on tap for after I finish Sullivan's latest...so I'm diving into it as soon as my pre-order is delivered and I can't WAIT!