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Comparison of quantum computing hardware by 
Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13
Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13Other comparisons:
- terra-docs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/IJHSR/Articles/volume6-issue8/IJHSR_2024_68_52.pdf Comparison Between Different Qubit Designs for Quantum Computing by Zaichen Hao (2024)
Force between two wires carrying an electric current.
Caused by the Lorentz force.
Converts numberical numbers to their full English form: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/413441/converting-numbers-into-full-written-words
For example:gives:
number 123456789123456789123456879123456789123456789123456879one hundred twenty-three sexdecillion.
four hundred fifty-six quindecillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine quattuordecillion.
one hundred twenty-three tredecillion.
four hundred fifty-six duodecillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine undecillion.
one hundred twenty-three decillion.
four hundred fifty-six nonillion.
eight hundred seventy-nine octillion.
one hundred twenty-three septillion.
four hundred fifty-six sextillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine quintillion.
one hundred twenty-three quadrillion.
four hundred fifty-six trillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine billion.
one hundred twenty-three million.
four hundred fifty-six thousand.
eight hundred seventy-nine.It also takes input from stdin, e.g.:gives:
primes 1 10 | numbertwo.
...
three.
...
five.
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seven.Ciro Santilli believes that these tools basically solve all the brain-dead problems which newbies would ask, and easy rep seekers would reply to.
Also, because Ciro Santilli only goes for long term reputation, which often means hard questions, this shot his yearly reputation rankings up without him doing anything, because all the guys who answered easy questions were decimated.
This was followed by Stack Overflow attempting to immorally and likely illegally trying to restrict free access to its previously commendable data dumps:which people were using to train LLMs.
This can be very clearly seen by several metrics on Stack Exchange Data Explorer, e.g. Ciro Santilli noticed that very clearly at: Total reputation in Stack Overflow over time how activity has been steadily falling since 2020.
Approximate total reputation change per year on Stack Overflow
. By Ciro Santilli using gnuplot. Methodology described at: Ciro Santilliś answer to the question "Total reputation in Stack Overflow over time". The 15 year old question was then closed soon after Ciro Santilli answered it, because of course that attracted some attention to the question, which of course was off-topic.
Related posts:
- www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1592s82/the_fall_of_stack_overflow/. www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1592s82/comment/jte8aju/ is amazing:Well known Stack Overflow user mipadi comments:You've fallen for the common misconception that the goal of stackoverflow is helping users solve problems.When the reality is that it's actually a video game. The only players are the admins/mods, and their goal is to use their "hammers" and attempts at pedantry/nitpicking (correctness not important) to compete with each other to get the highest "close" point scores. Pew pew pew!!! Bang bang bang!!! How many points can you score today?!?!Us users are just the NPCs, there as fodder for the real players.
And the niche Stack Exchange sites tend to be even worse, although I can still get a question answered after much teeth gnashing, usually.Ciro Santilli concurs, for professional niche sites. Non-professional ones are fine.
- www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/195ygru/stackoverflow_questions_down_66_in_2023_compared/
- observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
Many of the games are disabled by default on Ubuntu. But we can enable some games and build from source with:
apt-get source bsdgames
cd bsdgames-*
sed -ri '/^bsd_games_cfg_no_build_dirs=/s/ number / /' config.params
./configure
make -jHere we enabled the game number, so now we can:which gives:
number/number 123one hundred twenty-three.We can also "install" it locally with:which puts the games locally under:which you can add to your
make installdebian/bsdgames/usr/games/numberPATH environment variable.Tested on Ubuntu 24.04, bsdgames 2.17.
Are there infinitely many primes with property X by Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13
Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13There are infinitely many conjectures asking if such types of primes also form infinite families.
Usually the answer is yes, but no one was able to prove it yet.
Collaborative mega list: math.stackexchange.com/questions/4523193/are-there-infinitely-many-primes-of-the-form-x-we-probably-dont-know
Good section also at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics#Prime_numbers
Electrical resistance and conductance by Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13
Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13This section is about prime numbers that satisfy further properties beyond just being a prime.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology by Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13
Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13 Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt by Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13
Ciro Santilli 34 Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-12-13Very good documentary! Explains things very well! Great acting and wardrobe too.
The Mystery of Matter episode 1
. Source. The Mystery of Matter episode 2
. Source. The Mystery of Matter episode 3
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This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
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Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.
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Figure 4. Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation.
Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.Video 4. OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo. Source. - Internal cross file references done right:
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