Some things I noticed 12/31/2020:
- “We have to be damn sure that when we rip that narrative away, we have something awesome to fill its place.“
- “Anger, after all, is not a desire to fix something but a way of grasping the fact that it is broken.“
- “You must remodel your psychological landscape into one devoted to regulating mine. This explains the uncanny intimacy of anger”
- “We have shown that we can use photons to demonstrate quantum computational power well beyond the classical counterpart.“
- “The team used photodetectors capable of registering single photons”
- “Is BosonSampling a form of universal quantum computing? No.“
- “We propose to deploy a 1km-diameter wire-mesh using robots in a 3-5km-diameter crater on the far-side to form a sphericalcap reflector.“
- “both the launch and reentry of Starlink satellites poses environmental hazards“
- Schrödinger’s Douchebag; “nice guy, kind man, great man“
- “the tendency not to give up in the face of a simple fact“