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Re:Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:38PM (#16978720)
Rmarkdown has the better version control story.
Re:Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:30PM (#16058096)
Parent is correct — entanglement is exactly due to the fact that there exist more vectors in Hilbert space than tensor products (~ tuples) of unit vectors.
Re:Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:22PM (#16030523)
An unintuitive but important fact is that n qubits do not correspond to n unit vectors in two-dimensional Hilbert space (but rather to one unit vector in 2^n-dimensional Hilbert space).
Re:Little Lisp interpreter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:48PM (#14407259)
You are right about both points!

PS: The second you quoted out of order. If you reread, you will see that I was referring to FOO as the first "argument" (a typo for "element"..).

Re:Little Lisp interpreter on Monday May 22, 2017 @05:18PM (#14397020)
You are actually in violent agreement with the parent.

The grandparent poster was confused why the syntax (foo (1 2)) can be used to apply FOO to (1 2). As the parent points out, for typical Lisps this would actually give an error; instead, (foo '(1 2)) would be the appropriate syntax to apply FOO to the form (1 2). Indeed, when strictly evaluating (foo '(1 2)), first the arguments are evaluated. Since functions self-evaluate, FOO evaluates to itself, while '(1 2) evaluates to (1 2). Then, FOO is applied to (1 2). This is in complete agreement with what you said and what the specification says.

However, the Lisp interpreter at hand actually self-evaluates lists whose head is not a function. Thus (1 2) self-evaluates and (foo (1 2)) has the same effect as (foo '(1 2)).

Re:IBM unveils its most powerful quantum processor on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:53AM (#14356432)
N=5.
What delegitimizes him is that he is a notorious lier.
Re:Why Germany Educates International Students for Free on Sunday April 30, 2017 @02:51AM (#14230460)
No, this is because in Germany "university degree" is used in a more narrow sense (it is a higher standard than, say, US college degrees).