Observing the 2nd Quantum Revolution from inside. Superconducting electronics enjoyer.
Joined September 2021
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One dissapointing characteristic of the AI era is the extent to which otherwise smart, competent, and driven people are using the AI tools as an excuse to turn off their brains.
Brothers, the agent swarm is not a replacement for thinking! It is an augmentation!
QuantumObserver retweeted
Oh this story is delicious. Some choice parts for you:
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
QuantumObserver retweeted
不安もあった初個展初日でしたが、たくさんの方々にお越し頂けてホッとしています。みなさん楽しい時間をありがとうございました☺️明日がすでに最終日…ぜひぜひよりたくさんの方々にお越し頂きたいです。絵全体から感じる光を会場で体験してください。
人気作のアオサギの絵も展示しています。
QuantumObserver retweeted
I worry this makes things really hard for extremely attractive people who just want to seduce an OpenAI or Anthropic employee for their money
Introduced my daughter to coinflips. She’s called 3 in a row correctly, so far. What are the odds!!!
at a birthday for a boy in the new daycare we're attending:
Hosts aren't greeting anyone.
1/3 of parents are loitering isolated, the rest are clearly friends.
Half a dozen dads are watching the game
Not what I expected in the Midwest
QuantumObserver retweeted
I've been prototyping an automated peer review project. With current models you get human level peer review for about $0.10 of tokens. For $5 you can rederive every result, check every statistical inference, and audit every paper cited in both directions.
There are about 100m papers in the scientific corpus. Most are not important. Many are sloppy. For structural reasons it's essentially impossible to change published work, even to correct a typo.
For $500m today you can thoroughly audit every paper ever written. Every p-hacked result, every plagiarist, every fabrication, every citation club, everything.
I don't have $500m so instead I build a tree, focusing on the 1% of papers that carry 99% of the signal, doing a cheap first pass looking for obvious problems. I can find 90% of the nonsense for a few hundred dollars of tokens.
Any guesses where the biggest surprises will be found?
QuantumObserver retweeted
Illinois is embarrassed by the number of career criminals caught reoffending after slaps on the wrist.
But the legislature has come up with a solution. No, not a solution to the recidivism problem, but a solution to the judges-and-prosecutors-being-embarrassed-by-their-bad-decisions problem. A new law automatically seals the records of every criminal case (with minor narrow exceptions). This means that journalists can’t write stories like this unless they maintain their own parallel records of sentencing instances.
This is unconstitutional. The public has a right to access to the court records, and a government can’t blanket seal such an overbroad category of cases.
@HamLincLaw would love to bring that lawsuit to block this law, but we need a journalist or publication who can show that they’ll be affected by this law to have standing to do it.
If that’s you, and you’re interested, DM or email me.
Getting a 42-month sentence for robbing the Prada store on Oak Street of $46,000 didn’t set him straight.
Months after getting out, he helped rob a utility crew of a $25,000 camera, which made the feds angry.
His sentence: 8 years *federal*
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/prada…
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Tenth update to OpenAI problem #109 (integer multiplication): we are now past 2^-11.
κ = 2^-10.666 (6.1534 × 10⁻⁴), tightened from κ = 2⁻¹⁸²
That is about 1.32 fold over our previous 2^-11.066 (4.6637 × 10⁻⁴), and a 2¹⁷¹ fold improvement over the original OAI result.
Ninth update to OpenAI problem #109 (integer multiplication): we are now past 2^-12.
κ = 2⁻¹¹·⁰⁶⁶ (tightened from κ = 2⁻¹⁸²)
The exact witness is 4.6637 × 10⁻⁴, about 3.70 fold over our previous 1.2613 × 10⁻⁴, and a 2¹⁷⁰ fold improvement over the original OAI result.