Pretty solid article about a recent breakthrough in Quantum Computing.

The one part I would quibble with is

Quantum computers are pretty limited in unstructured searches.

so i'm guessing one of these things could solve full scale texas holdem while brushing its teeth?

Certainly not yet I'm not really up to date on poker bots though. How much better quantum computers will be than classical depends critically on the problem.

There is a thread in MSNL about how bots are now better than like 99% of the population in short handed NL games

Probably not what you need, but this turned up on HN today: http://mailgun.net/

link pls, i dont see anything

Couldn't find it.. Was the statement backed up by some kind of evidence?

Eh for people taking the Coursera SaaS thing...have there been quizzes yet? I got to the party late so it would kind of suck if I missed some and can't take them anymore but them's the breaks.

none yet. all new quizzes/lecture/assignments are released on sundays and due the monday 8 days from then

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/56...ngame-1112918/

Thanks! Thought it was a new thread. Saw this when it was first started

Is there a very dominant community forum for programmers like 2+2 is for poker players?

Stack Overflow.

Thanks. They seem to be srs business. No other topics/politics/etc forums.

Well, StackExchange is a community of sites; the flagship is Stack Overflow. There are tons of topics that have their own website that's connected in the SE network, like Programmers Exchange, Skeptics Network, Judaism (seriously), Database Administrators, Gaming, etc.

1,2,4 done..3 half done, 5 looks interesting. Gonna go to bed + soccer all day tomorrow
Will be interested in exchaging code once the assignment is due

May be worth it's own thread to make it easier to find later. Link to the answer in the new thread discuss them here? Too cumbersome?

I like new thread for SaaS course idea

Learned a cool hack (excuse me if this is old hat to you guys).

If you have html email, you can send an email button like the one pictured here:



and when you click it, there is a pre-filled out email:



In order to make a button, you have to use CSS because for some odd reason, you can't use a <button > tag.

Steps:

Begin with the following template. Take note of the quotation marks.

Add the '?' to the end of the email address.
Place &amp; at the end of the subject.

Then replace all special characters with ASCII:

Then mush it all together:

The above derived because someone at work received an email with the above feature and asked if I could look into getting it done. Was a pretty easy task. Just copy / paste into Dreamweaver. The first time I did it, I created it through Internet Explorer. In that case, you don't have to use the ASCII to get this to work. I have no idea why this is so, but it was pretty embarrassing to see it flame out on the first test run, but oh well.

After getting it done, the person who requested it asked me: "I gave it to you in 12-point font and there was a bolded header. Why is it all in 10-point font now?"

"It just doesn't work that way. It's in ASCII and you can't format ASCII code."

"So, it's going to just go with my computer's default and you can't force it to go different?"

"Nope. Sorry. Well, at least I don't know how... I mean, it's better than nothing, right?"

Tiny project - Let's say I want to download some text files of works by some of my favorite authors (from project Gutenberg, for instance) so I could do searches for words or phrases by author. For example, return sentences or paragraphs containing "blue sky" from all works of Melville & Poe.

I figure the easiest way to do this would not even be to make a database, just download the text files and write a script to search each file one by one for matches and return it to me in whatever format I desired?

It's obv possible to do this with google already, you can search "melville "blue sky" site:gutenberg.org" but I want more control over the format of the output.

Maybe build an inverted index. Here are a couple of descriptions: Wikipedia and nlp.stanford.edu

SaaS course thread would be cool I guess. My HW3 solution is quite the cludge. I don't feel like making it any better so let's see if it passes the evaluator (passes the example they gave in my unittests)

what the hell is the internet coming to



took me six tries to complete a forum search

CAPTCHAS blow, don't ever use them on websites imo

i've noticed the progression too. pattern recognition ai is just getting too good -- soon they'll be pointless.