I actually think the tech is mostly there, all we really need is application. Once there’s a real world need for quantum computers, they will get more developed over time. If there is nothing to be gained by making them quicker, more efficient, et cetera, then it will remain niche.

Which is partly why I mentioned AI. Currently, of course, most of AI applications run on very powerful GPUs with a huge amount of bandwidth. At some point, it will no longer be profitable to increase scale (not to mention the already disastrous environmental impact). I am hoping that quantum can solve both scale up and evolutionary issues that AI is facing.

Mind that I’m not just talking about LLMs, AI is much broader than just coding assistants or silly chatbots. AI has been around long before ChatGPT, it’s just that LLMs have provided a real world use that appeals to a much wider audience (scale up).

When it comes to its evolution, it’s mostly about ‘putting AI in everything’, something that on this platform is a bad thing about which most people here say they don’t want it. I can sort of see why for some aspects, but there’s always been a voice of resistance for disruptive tech. Combining computers with agriculture was long seen as nonsense, until they started seeing how much data they actually could process in a much shorter time. Enabling internet access on a lot of home appliances was seen as daft until home automation became more widespread. Putting excellent camera tech on portable devices seemed a weird combination until social media required you to share photos all the time. It’s unclear which field will benefit most from AI integration at this point, but I’m fairly confident there will be one. Quantum computing can help solve efficiency issues that will give us the opportunity to combine AI with all kinds of applications to see which one might benefit most.

If we stop trying to see the dystopian part of all these developments, I think AI evolution will solve a lot of our issues pertaining to energy usage and transition away from fossil fuels, climate change and the way we live with environmental shifts, language barriers and other sociological challenges that cause friction, space travel and exploration, our understanding of the planet and the universe, education…

But we need to be wary of power struggles, privacy, fascism, time (in the event our ecosystem collapses before AI can help us solve our issues), inequity of access to improvements gained by AI (ie how will the poorest of us benefit. Computers were once only for the elite, now almost everyone has something like a pc, laptop or smartphone).

I’m split 50/50 between optimistic and pessimistic about the future of AI but if we can leverage quantum the way science has promised us quantum may help, that tips the scale to 70/30.

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I’d say quantum computing. It’s not as though this will all be happening quickly, if you want to work with high end hardware before it reaches consumers you’d need to find some sort of company like Samsung’s R&D department. But that’ll only be chip manufacturing, memory, stuff like that.

CPU’s in x86 architecture are on their way out, Arm is becoming more popular (SoC) but the other way really is quantum computing. That’s a field they want, something they’ve not yet cracked. Tever transferred some qubits, but it’s just a big boom waiting to happen that will really accelerate AI as well.

I’ve been using Ecosia since Google turned to absolute dogshit because of SEO and sponsored links. Now I don’t even use search engines anymore, I just ask an LLM immediately and tell it to link its sources so I can verify for myself

Netherlands does this too, matter of fact beaches have dispensers maintained by a health insurance company. They did the math, it’s cheaper to provide the nation with free sunscreen at convenient locations than to pay for all skin cancer scares. And it frees up healthcare capacity.

But I also saw it in Porto at a festival there. More and more this is showing up and it’s a great thing.

Join a club, try to find others that are like-minded. I’ve got friends who are recent parents and it made me have a look at my social circle and figured it was time to expand my social circle.

Lots of people are feeling lonely simply because they don’t know where to meet any new people. I’d say see if your place of residence has some sort of meeting center where you could organise something. If only one person shows up it might be a success already.

No they’re saying this Wafer Thin character has bought some chicken and cooked it.

Maybe it’s to do with what a literal dogwhistle is. I can’t really make heads or tails of this, but that’s maybe just because my brain is on a completely different wavelength. Like dogs can hear specific frequencies humans can’t. Maybe trumpists hear certain things in between this word soup that actually makes sense on some level.

Or maybe he’s just a senile old man and his followers are incapable of critical thought when it comes to him.

I was watching it on the Dutch public network and they cut to commercials before the players were fully off the pitch and returned when the ball was all but rolling. The worst part is that they pay like 200% of the going rate to make sure they get the bid.

I then switched to the Belgian sports channel which not only had higher bit rate and 50fps, but also hardly any commercials, just kept rolling during the hydration break and even during halftime only showed a few brief commercials and just kept blabbing about Messi the rest of the break. All this with half the budget the Dutch public stations have.

A friend of mine is building something like that but it’s still very early days, also I think it’s limited to eToro I think. Usually APIs are available so maybe there’s a possibility to whip something up yourself

As if having a human in the loop would make slaughtering people more humanitarian. How many reports have we read of soldiers from any power perpetrating horrendous acts on enemy combatants, or worse, civilians?

I agree that murder without prejudice should be curtailed if at all possible and that autonomous robots are not likely to accept surrender, but it’s not like human agressors are always open to it either.

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It sounds as though you have a very strong conceptual understanding of all of this and that urge to know ‘why’ is something that resonates. Putting it into practice always seems to be more difficult, especially when put on the spot and even moreso when someone is radiating a type of energy that will trigger your reflex that you are ‘in the way’ or otherwise being disagreeable. I find it helps to imagine just randomly anyone dealing with certain situations and trying to understand how and why they don’t face the same problems I do.

Specifically the part about the world going to shit triggered me a bit. Yes of course we all pretty much see that this might not end well. But I speak to my dad about this quite a bit and he feels there have been similar periods decades ago where everyone also felt the world was going to shit.the world has been going to shit for maybe hundreds of years and people in general are kinda awful.

But in the meantime a lot of people are also doing great things. Their achievements are not usually shared because news sites can’t profit off of good news as much as of bad news.

But the Debbie Downer attitude is really not something that is going to solve anything. Which I know, is not a nice thing to say because you genuinely have a point. We are not likely to solve any of the big issues at any type of social gathering so it’s better to keep grave conversations for the time and place, as you’ve indicated yourself. If you’re really so worried about what is going wrong in the world all the time and it’s all that occupies your mind, either find a way to live your life in such a way that you can say ‘it wasn’t me’ when things do go to actual shit before you die, or find a way to make a difference in the world somehow. And if you manage either but are still able to get a few laughs in on the weekend when hanging out with people you enjoy spending time with, I think you’ll have done the ultimate thing. If you only manage the latter, it’ll make your social life a bit easier.

I think if I project your story onto myself (I can relate), I usually judge myself the way I think others judge me. And spoiler alert: it’s never positive. I think at some point you will realise that pretty much anyone, either neorodivergent in some way or typical, is just living their life. Some people are the type to judge, some aren’t. Some will take your ‘excuse me’ and hear ‘well isn’t this person nice’ and respond with something more agreeable to you.

Thing is you will never have a 100% match with everyone all of the time and you should really stop trying to, because it’ll make life considerably harder and more importantly, less enjoyable. You’ll be always walking in eggshells and pretty much never do right by others. Most people prefer you to be authentic rather than a pleaser. And the ones that don’t, well it’s okay to not form any connections with those. But if you shy away from anyone who imposes their will upon you and you’re happy just going along, you will also miss out on a lot of 85% connections that can be delightful.

All in all I do agree with the most succinct comment here saying that the person in question was just a bit of a dick but keep in mind this guy is most likely not trying to be a dick. He’s just expressing himself in his own frame of reference and his own values. There is no implication saying you should follow any of that because most people aren’t layered like that, they have no intention on influencing your behaviour.

I might say something along the lines of ‘you should care less about what others think of you’ because it’s what was told to me throughout my life. Gradually you might get there organically. Or you might not. I just wish for you to be comfortable in your own skin and be more accepting towards yourself so you can draw the conclusion that this guy was a dick by yourself.

Keep on sharing and reaching out like this, it’s the best way to move forward and to grow as a human. Know that there are people in your corner.

At some point all the fun stuff from a new relationship dies down and most of it just turns into a drag. The deepest conversations you’ll have are about what to eat or whether you’ll be home at a regular time.

I know this is not the case in all marriages but most of them that end in divorce are merely because it started as something fun, marriage seemed the next logical step and then you’re sort of locked into it, longing back to the excitement of getting to know each other. Being single is pretty much like that unless you never meet new people you have a fun couple of weeks with before never seeing each other again.

You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every minute of every day.

Cause I got married. It’s not that different from being single.

No discrete GPU? When my 4070 was slightly out of its depth on context for Mistral-NeMo 12B a while back it offloaded some to my cpu and system RAM and it was so slow. Recipe generation timed out after 10 mins while on VRAM it takes 30 seconds.

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