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On capitalism and the climate:

Is a world that runs on quantum computers one where an exceptionally small number of people understand how the **** any of this works?

I can't tell if this is a function of the time at which I grew up, in which this is a new/poorly understood science and someday all kids will study in school and understand it perfectly, or if computing is moving in a direction where only people who have PhDs in physics or whatever will actually understand what's happening on the inside of a computer, which seems...not ideal for society.

Strickland said she isn't a full professor because she never filled out the required paperwork. The distinction between associate professor and full professor is generally meaningless as far as prestige, pay, whatever. If you have grant money you can make a nice salary regardless. And, uh, she definitely had/has grant money. In USA#1, not sure about Canada. But again, she could move to a top five research school in USA#1 with a named professorship tomorrow if she wanted and that was probably also true five years ago.

Awesome story.

I think this has been true for a long time. A real understanding requires both a deep and wide understanding of overlapping areas of physics, mathematics and various engineering disciplines. I don't know anything about quantum computers, but it does seem to add another level (ha).

God we're really going to just completely ruin this planet. We need to play the GOP game and fear monger conservatives that climate change is going to lead to mass migration to the US from the middle east & africa. It's probably the only thing that would work.

Yeah I heard her say it was because she was lazy but I think she's being PC. Imo it reflects poorly on her university that they didn't press to promote her. Similarly, it's a failure of her PhD supervisor not to have seen to it she graduated in a timely manner. I'm assuming a lot in these two cases but it fits with my experience as well as the stats.

How many people understand how an internal combustion engine works?
Or a CD player? Or even a record player?

You think people have any kind of a clue how conventional computing works? Like, ask your average slob how many transistors are in a cell phone and marvel at how many orders of magnitude they're off by. Ask em what a transistor even is.

Man, the fact that brilliant people are spending eight years earning peanuts as grad students while solving incredibly difficult and important science problems is not a feel-good story to me. This is a bull**** system.

I'd take just a little bit of pleasure in Bolsonaro winning. Glenn's been playing down fascism developing in America, thus mocking those who are victims of it. Now there's a good chance that he gets to know what it's really like. It's really prime trolling territory if he wins.

SHE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR HER THESIS WORK!!!! Any marks against her adviser for taking a couple of years too long for her getting her PhD done have to mitigated by, uh, winning the Nobel Prize for her thesis. And her taking as long as she did might have had more to do with her than him. She might have wanted to finish her work (Nobel Prize winning work) before leaving even though she surely had enough to justify a PhD years earlier.

And sure, it could be sexism but the fact that she wasn't hosed like the pulsar girl or the DNA lady suggests not.

cheering on fascism to own the Glenn

Or a turn signal. shoot.

The gas goes in, the exhaust comes out. You can't explain that!

Are you just trying to keep in form or something? I never said anything about sexism. Of course it wouldn't be at all surprising. What would be surprising is if her advisor knew in her 3rd or 4th year she was destined to win the Nobel 30+ years later so better keep her around as a grad student rather than do what would probably be best for her.

Eta my main point is what Trolley said, if it's not obvious.

Relative to quantum computing, yes, definitely. I got a pretty good idea of the inner workings of a computer by the end of my freshman year of college and that was in computer science, which is more about the theory of programming and less about actual physical hardware.

It's still the case that not a lot of people study it, but that information is at least accessible and fundamentally understandable in a way that quantum computing seems, to me, like it is not.

This woman could probably cash out a ton tomorrow or a half-ton in the past if she had wanted to. She seems to like academia and solving tough theoretical problems as opposed to all the BS you have to go through when the man is paying you big $$.

One one of my photo trips there was a guy who had a PhD in chemistry and was completely bored and disillusioned with his private industry job. I imagine this is pretty common?

Message sent to the rest of them, don't you DARE go against dear leader trump.

Punishing Murkowski will become a big priority.

It's deep down workings will just get abstracted away into some form of machine language just like with current CPUs and then people will start writing higher level languages for it so it can achieve it's potential and start being combined into Beowulf clusters.

The Dems should reach out to her quietly about switching parties. You know if the Dems tried to punish Manchin for voting yes on Kavanaugh, that's exactly what the GOP would do.

She won a write-in campaign FFS. She should tell them to **** off.

If ya'll remember North Carolina Republicans tried to money wrench this race by eliminating primaries and putting judges' party affiliation on the ballot. The goal was for Democrats to have multiple candidates to split the vote while the incumbent Republican collects all the R votes. Democrats then judo'ed it by having a previous D voter apply to run as a R hopefully spliting the R vote. The NC legislature tried to do backies on the changes so that they could boot the split candidate but the courts said they couldn't do it after the filing deadline.

Now the D is in the lead and the late comer pseudo R that's really a D is in second place with the incumbent R in third

Again, IDK from quantum computing, but some knowledge of quantum mechanics is already required to understand the solid state physics of diode/transistor operation and flash memory/SSDs. Also hard disk operation.

Anyway, this topic brings to mind a great Asimov (very) short story:

The Feeling of Power