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ernesto95

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ernesto95··on OpenAI o1 system card
Interesting that the results can be so different for different people. I have yet to get a single good response (in my research area) for anything slightly more complicated than what a quick google search would reveal. I agree that it’s great for generating quick functioning code though.
ernesto95··on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn
Do you have a personal book recommendation on the group and/or number theory of this type of cryptography?
ernesto95··on Physicists Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do
Link to the paper (Sept 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16596
ernesto95··on On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
True, but from a mathematician's point of view, the theory quickly becomes complicated (and in some sense limited) if you really want to do things rigorously when working with continuous systems, something that does not happen with finite dimensional systems as the parent comment probably alludes to.
ernesto95··on What Is Ethereum?
If your comparing centuries you probably should give this one a bit more time, I mean we're in our second decade...
ernesto95··on Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
I wrote a timer in the developers console that logged either f or d depending on whether Math.random() was above or below 0.5 every second, typing the sequence that was being logged, the oracle consistently scored around ~0.4.
ernesto95··on Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
I generally dislike idolatry and pinning mayor scientific advancement on one single person, but honestly, Einstein really was something else.