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r/QuantumComputing•

Most people will probably already know the story about how NASA.gov erroneously published Google's quantum supremacy paper and then took it down. Here is the supplemental information for that paper.

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r/China•

OK, so if you've been to China you probably waited in the awful lines to get your ticket. I know I'm waiting in the line because I have no choice, but what's up with the zillions of other people in the line? They have the choice to use the automatic machines. Why do they choose those horrible lines?

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r/nordvpn•

I've been using it for almost a month in China, and so far I can only connect to Australia 155 and 153. (I didn't try all the servers of course, but if people push me, I might find the time to write a script and test them all). It works with both UDP and TCP protocols, but it's slow. I have 100 Mbps at my house, and Nord usually provides around 1 Mbps. Sometimes it's as bad as 0.1 Mbps and I've seen it go as high as 10 Mbps. I've never successfully connected to an obfuscated server.

I mostly care about speed, not privacy (or logs or anything like that), so all in all, I don't think it's worth paying for. The free VPNs are just as fast, and have the same degree of connectivity. Oddly enough

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r/math•

I'm getting married and I want to anodize my ring. Can we brainstorming interesting, beautiful, or meaningful patterns that fit into a torus or a strip (just the outside of the ring).

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r/chomsky•

I've been scanning Chomsky's lectures about language for a while now. In vain. Does anybody remember him talking about how people have a rich and specific meaning for words, even words as simple as 'house'?

I vaguely recall that he talks about painting your house, filling your house completely with cheese, and color referring to the outside face of the house. His point, as I recall, is that everyone seems to be in agreement of all these strange properties of 'house', despite even the heaviest, most comprehensive dictionary failing even to scratch the surface of its meaning. Thus, properties of 'house' must be innate, so the argument goes.

I find this argument very interesting and I really

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r/QuantumComputing•

Here's a text that discusses historical and theoretical background, as well as the current experimental state and future prospects of quantum computing. It's a 200-page, US government report written to be accessible to non-specialists. Any mathematically-inclined, motivated person should have a lot to gain from it. It's very well-written and easy to read.

To the mods, I recommend that it be included in our sidebar for easy reference for people that want to learn more.

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r/Piracy•

Hi.

I've downloaded the SolidSquad Activator for Solidworks 2018. After disconnecting from the internet and successfully changing the series numbers using the activator as an admin,, the activator software quotes "error 6" (access violation), but I've been unable to find any documentation related to this error.

I disactivatied the default windows AV in the hopes that that was preventing me from editing the registry, but that didn't work either. I deleted all the SOLDIWORKS keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software running Regedit as admin, but unfortunately that didn't work either.

I've tried multiple different sources for the SSQ software (including Rutrack

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