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jaekwon··on Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
Pilot wave resonance/nonresonance from the two receivers of a Bell's inequality experiment may affect the behavior at the source leading to a kind of Monty Hall problem observed as QM. Are we certainly capable of firing a singular entangled photon on command at the press of a button regardless of the orientation of the receivers, or does the firing ability of the source emitter seem to falter with orthogonality at the end receivers?

Of course this could be complicated by a mechanism at the source that ensures a single pair to be emitted. Imagine a mechanism that ensures that only one pair is produced, but it is produced eventually, like a for-loop with a break statement. And maybe the only way to conduct the Bell's Inequality experiment meaningfully is with such a throttling mechanism, which would mask the answer to the question above. Though there might be hints in the amount of time required to generate that singular pair, as if the for-loop had to run more iterations before it was produced, detected only with sensitive timing instruments like with side-channel timing attacks in cryptographic black boxes.

jaekwon··on Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
Because it's an oxymoron? If the "worlds" interact, then it's actually one world. If they don't interact, then it doesn't matter.

It's like dynamic programming. It's just one way to look at the problem. It doesn't really exclude any of the other solutions.

jaekwon··on Countries are still paying off debt from World War 1
How is that misleading? That's typically how one fails to pay their debts -- by priority.
jaekwon··on Gravity visualized (2012) [video]
Maybe it works if you imagine everything moving, and stasis is simulated by running in circles?
jaekwon··on Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
Hmm, I tried to find some damning quotes but I couldn't find any. I think I was skimming the book "Code" and read parts out of context that made it seem like he was arguing in favor of something, when he wasn't.

Well, looks like I was wrong. Thanks for challenging me.

jaekwon··on Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
I read some earlier books of his that espouse a global internet content monitoring scheme for the sake of enforcing copyright. Draw your own conclusions.
jaekwon··on MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
By publishing the paper you essentially invalidate it, as people take advantage of it. Happens time and time again in any market.
jaekwon··on The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution
Oh, well, Denmark and sugar beets then :)

The paper shows a practical use of secret sharing and secure multiparty computation to discover the market price of a commodity. Not sure how secure it is, but it's interesting.

It's not the same thing as securing consensus of a blockchain ledger. In the paper they have over a thousand participants and 3 (or some small number of) servers. In the blockchain problem, each participant runs his own server. The fault tolerance model is different, and also the blockchain requires continuous consensus.

jaekwon··on The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution
Hard to respond to that considering you could be making a jab at several things -- either altcoins, or crypto in general, or all of money and securities as we know it. Fix your jab and I'll respond with a quip.
jaekwon··on The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution
None are working yet. They're being developed. No centralized checkpoints.
jaekwon··on The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution
Just... stay tuned :)
jaekwon··on The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution
You don't need mining to secure a consensus ledger.

People just think that way because so far mining is the only way it's being done with any level of security. There are a couple of algorithms based on academic research that are being implemented now, and the public hasn't seen it yet.

jaekwon··on The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution
There are two ways to secure the blockchain with a guaranteed level of security. Proof-of-work, and proof-of-stake. I use the second term very broadly, and I'm not referring to the consensus schemes that NXT or BitShares use. Anybody who says otherwise today regardless of the "marketcap" of their coin doesn't know what they're talking about from a CS/game-theory point of view, or they're ignoring the costs of proof-of-work schemes.

Proof-of-work is expensive and will ultimately be replaced with better consensus schemes that require no mining, namely those that only rely on cryptographic signatures, a good balance of incentives and penalties, and an underlying byzantine consensus algorithm.

Disclaimer: I'm one of a handful of people working on new consensus algorithms.

jaekwon··on Rust means never having to close a socket
This works well for system resources, but what about custom objects destructors?
jaekwon··on A survey of the current state of Golang ORMs
I just updated the go-modeldb library, for anybody who wants to use a non-ORM solution.

https://github.com/jaekwon/go-modeldb

You can see it used extensively in this sample application:

https://github.com/jaekwon/ftnox-backend

But, it looks like sqlx may be a better alternative.

jaekwon··on Jobless Rate in U.S. Falls Below 6% as Hiring Picks Up
Most of it was due to "business cycle"?

What does that mean?

jaekwon··on Jobless Rate in U.S. Falls Below 6% as Hiring Picks Up
Your observation appears to be consistent with a declining rate of people who want a job but don't have one.
jaekwon··on Founder Suicides
Hmm interesting point. If you're going to be missed, you should say bye first.
jaekwon··on Founder Suicides
I like Erdos's interpretation of death, and probably suicide as well. It's an action of "leaving". I'm OK with that, and I hope one day to leave with assisted suicide rather than be forced the burden of staying despite my will.

If we want to make this life an enjoyable experience for as many people as possible, we should be looking at trends in suicide and trying to figure out what's wrong. I hope you all stay because the best part is ahead of us, but it's OK to me if you decide to leave, too.

That said, I can imagine how bad it must be to be a founder in Las Vegas. I think the place is phony, hot, unsustainable, and lacking in genuine purpose and liveliness.

jaekwon··on Are Ivy League schools overrated?
That's not surprising because YC is the Ivy league of incubators.
jaekwon··on Official Go support
I write Go on a daily basis, and the lack of generics support is really not high on the list of problems that I encounter. I think it's a great tradeoff between C & say Java for the kind of programs that I write -- backend server software with moderate to high performance requirements.
jaekwon··on People with night-time chronotype more likely to be narcissists and psychopaths [pdf]
Are there any controls in the study to account for the possibility that staying up late chronically induces those traits of narcissism/psychopathy? Seems like the obvious hypothesis given the correlation.
jaekwon··on Ebola death toll rises to at least 2,296: WHO
This study seems to be overly optimistic about the ability to control the outbreak... thus projecting 25K cases by the end of 2014 yet only projecting 140K cases overall.
jaekwon··on Ask HN: Hacker forum or IRC?
I just logged onto #hackernews on freenode.

My god, it's full of avatars!

jaekwon··on Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power
I think everybody here is in agreement.
jaekwon··on Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power
> Geothermal is hugly limited

How? If you dig down you'll get heat. Wind power is bad for the environment? Solar has safety challenges? What?

> None. Zero. Absolutely no impact or ramifications whatsoever.

Clearly it has some impact, the question is how to measure it. Whatever the answer, zero isn't it.

jaekwon··on Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power
Geothermal is available all the time. I'd like to read about what kind of difficulties they're experiencing directing power. Maybe it's a political problem, not a physical one.
jaekwon··on Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power
You're wrong on both counts. We don't know the full effects of Fukushima yet (it's not over, and cancers caused may take much longer to show).
jaekwon··on Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power
It appears that Fukushima isn't exactly over. And, it's clear that in the case of a disaster, nobody needs to take responsibility. Who is holding Tepco accountable?
jaekwon··on Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power
Why don't we just build renewable energy that is abundant and doesn't require the unknown unknowns of nuclear energy? Geothermal, wind, solar?

I don't trust anybody with nuclear power. I don't know whether I should be eating fish from the pacific ocean. I have some idea how much cesium is in our ocean water because somebody is tracking it, but no idea what the ramifications of the Fukushima disaster is on me now and in the future, as somebody living in the west coast of the USA.

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