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Pete Horne
@horneps #4409
Tradfi coder by day, hacker by night. Doesn’t know night from day. Freelance scribe. Dad cook. Dog butler. Happy Grandpa. Draws badly.
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Financial risk is my industry (risk is defined as return variance), yet it’s taken this ride to make me realise duh, an asset with 20% volatility is irrefutable evidence that it is an asset with no intrinsic value to anchor it. Its value is pure sentiment. I also just reviewed a journal article that quantifies it.
Im getting seasick riding my portfolio.
I’m unsure anything the head of Google quantum says stands up to any scrutiny. The 2x Moore’s law sounds like many of the breathless hockey stick business plans I’ve seen at board meetings.
If you think your bitcoin is going to disappear up a quantum black hole; send it to me. I’ll look after it for you. 😀
If you think your bitcoin is going to disappear up a quantum black hole; send it to me. I’ll look after it for you. 😀
Writing…
Quantum is an observed natural phenomenon. It was annoying for a while because it broke things, but it’s real and accepted as such, now, and so we can observe and repeat it and try to make machines that exhibit the effects in a controllable way reliably and at scale. This is what a quantum computer is; the machine that tries to achieve these effects at scale. The rest is just programming using the quantum equivalent of digital logic gates constructed by maths applied to the physical manipulations and observations. We are both there; the theory and math is known, and not there because the machines don’t scale. And we also don’t have a shared understanding of where “there” is because it’s a space unanchored that needs the machines to anchor them.
Quantum is an observed natural phenomenon. It was annoying for a while because it broke things, but it’s real and accepted as such, now, and so we can observe and repeat it and try to make machines that exhibit the effects in a controllable way reliably and at scale. This is what a quantum computer is; the machine that tries to achieve these effects at scale. The rest is just programming using the quantum equivalent of digital logic gates constructed by maths applied to the physical manipulations and observations. We are both there; the theory and math is known, and not there because the machines don’t scale. And we also don’t have a shared understanding of where “there” is because it’s a space unanchored that needs the machines to anchor them.
pi is such a worm hole…
After watching the head of Google quantum and reading about drones, I’ve decided to up my fashion game.
The endless tail of network probes against a public facing firewall and the logs of the bots probing your web server for exploits.
Sunday, bake day. Just some quick savory pastries.
Relearning number theory for getting Eulers identity into my thick head for quantum superposition calculations. So I had some fun doing hieroglyphs and cuneiform.
One thing I do know about quantum, especially with the Google nothing burger announcement, is we have to stop letting quantum advocates mark their own homework.
Well, it’s nearly the end of the year. I sure did over commit this year. I didn’t see my quantum policy paper sending me back to study but it did so I’ll be finishing that next year. Then I have a short story in abeyance. Tech definitely took a commercial turn so that’s good but quiet. I don’t talk about politics so I’ve ended up being quite quiet.
Sunday, bake day. Spiced apple pie from the farmers off-cast box.
Book club at the pub.
What is the top 3 list of unsolved digital life freedom issues? I would propose that it used to be:
1) payment intermediaries able to gouge, block and control,
2) digital surveillance
3) DRM removing freedoms and supporting 1 & 2.
Have they changed? Should they change?
1) payment intermediaries able to gouge, block and control,
2) digital surveillance
3) DRM removing freedoms and supporting 1 & 2.
Have they changed? Should they change?
…. That changed after Marc Andreessen discussed the issue on Joe Rogan last week: “We have had 30 founders in the last four years debanked. This is why we supported Trump.” ….
Just think about the absolutely vacuous irony of that statement. Crypto was supposed to be new money and replace banks. It never wanted to be banked let alone debanked.
This means “Crypto” is now the brand name of a “tech stack” and not a freedom project. Fine, I’m happy with that. I love good tech. But don’t pretend crypto is any more free than a Google search or an iPhone.
A new freedom from big-government/big-tech will emerge with a new brand. It always does…
Just think about the absolutely vacuous irony of that statement. Crypto was supposed to be new money and replace banks. It never wanted to be banked let alone debanked.
This means “Crypto” is now the brand name of a “tech stack” and not a freedom project. Fine, I’m happy with that. I love good tech. But don’t pretend crypto is any more free than a Google search or an iPhone.
A new freedom from big-government/big-tech will emerge with a new brand. It always does…
The fact that the new administration is pro crypto means crypto is pwned as they would never support anything that didn’t allow surveillance or undermine hegemony.
“Crypto” came from a place that was neither democrat or republican (which makes me gag anyway because I’m not American and I don’t care for either them). But I do care about where the disruptors are working. I used to be there but I know I’m not right now. But I’m looking…
Sunday bake day. Not much to look at but it was bbq and beer pulled pork, hand made slaw, home made bbq sauce, and brioche rarebit.
Of course I just had a long chat with a bloke at my local about anarcho syndicalism. Doesn’t everyone? 😊
Where’s the actual punk action these days in tech/crypto/anywhere??? Asking for a friend who can’t find it and is asking for directions…
I’ve been very very quiet. Business travel but also mostly study. I’ve just completed a quantum maths course (Dirac/kets notation, basically) and NOW I have to do a logic circuit refresher. Not sure of the wisdom of being the eager beaver saying “I can do it” when asked to explain it to clients.
Sunday, bake day. I baked slow cooked short ribs with bbq onion jam, sweet potato mash, greens, and slow cooked heritage carrots.
18 hours flying from NYC to Auckland, again 😀 the end of one of my “only fly west from home to home” trips.
Every day can be a bake day.