cinquemb

Yeah.... best of luck to him... prepare the FTC lube... :P

Citibank has a good report: https://www.citigroup.com/rcs/citigpa/storage/public/Citi_In...

Tradfi has way more at risk... and the hardware/software that cant be upgraded that the financial system uses every day...

Pretty much all of quantum control right now is based on the idea that qubits are these fragile things that have to be corrected, but thats because poor assumptions for quantum control are used (SO(3) precession). And even when they are treated like open quantum systems (like everything naturally is, even at 10mK and 10^-11 Torr), stuff like linblad master equations are used which is based on born-markov assumption that the env is a memoryless bath... when one stops using these poor assumptions and treat the system as a dynamical object that has natural states of stability that dont need to be actively corrected... these crypto breaking alarms are going to seem very tame.

This also has implications for alot of PQC and QKD stuff that's based on static model assumptions...

Very exciting.

Devoret was my co-authors phd advisor (and who is also my advisor now on some of my work).

We sorely need more open quantum systems built/designed with open source tooling. The IBM's, Ionq's, Quantinuum's and Googles, will be happy if we all remain serfs to their multimillion dollar machines and hardware direction.

It took me less than a day to start to be productive on my fork [0] for what i wanted to do. The default spacial units are actually microns (but yes they have their[1] examples multiplied by the inch conversion) and the wavelength stuff is in meters. But yes, technically its v0.0.1 so still rough around the edges.

Considering the vast majority of money in the space going into QEC software, I'm so grateful for their work. Was so much easier than trying to everything from scratch with my limited CAD work over the years.

[0] https://i.ibb.co/vCdFC7sp/iso-sep-debugging1.png

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14957

I don't disagree with what you state, but I don't think most who are surprised now are ready to ponder systems of governance and cooperation that require less trust than those most used now so i won't go there here.

No matter what happens to any of us personally writing messages here is going to change the situation for those who have ignored the writing on the wall for so long.

People will have hard choices to be made, doubly so for those who have avoided making them. It's great that you seem to now be questioning things you have thought unquestionable; things unfolding now are no surprise to me, and i expect things to get worse, even beyond the current administration or the next until I see people make hard decisions globally.

When i see those people start to take actions that they have refused to do so for decades despite the warning signs along the road, I will take those motivations seriously.

Right now, its just a clown show in regards to that.

That may be true, and Europeans will be free to trust the Russians and the Turkish as the those in SEA are free to trust the Chinese instead.

If the rest of the world doesn't send munitions on target stateside, Americans wont care. Just like they didn't care for the past 20+ years when DoD was tasked with bombing millions others in far away lands without explicit declaration by congress.

Perhaps those who build their relationships on negotiated reciprocity rather than blind trust will fair better in the coming era.

The realpolitik of the situation: you can only really have an alliance among equals and its foolish to believe otherwise with a massive power imbalance (I doubt the cultural boundaries in Europe will aid this endeavor for some kind of unified security umbrella, when unification of the sovereign euro debt markets has remained illusive as represented by the spreads). It's clear that the post wwii era where the US willingly funds everything under the sun ex-stateside without clear equivalent concessions that can be sold politically to the stateside is over for now.

I'm hopeful that it will create a more robust governance systems on the local level in the long run, but not without more short term pain (after all, there were a lot of non-stateside mouths being fed who will have to figure out realistic alternatives and face once unpalatable choices that will need to be made out of necessity).

Don't forget the repeal of the chevron deference too by the supreme court. Agencies have a lot less power now (at least from a judicial perspective). Big trouble indeed, but its clear that for certain actors, they are experiencing pain they haven't felt before under any administration...

> You can trace individualism to various started places, like the Protestant Reformation's assertion that individuals have a direct connection to the divine.

Really? I think the Gnostics have long been on that path if one is crediting the Protestant Reformation...

Adults disagree on many things and are willing to kill each over those disagreements in some cases, even when it comes to what the "truth" is. So color me quite skeptical that any tool that anyone uses is going to be free from such biases unless it's solely in the domain of verifying mathematical correctness in some strictly defined ontological system.

> Except for the "tools to amplify factual voices"

They felt the need to include it, if they didn't I would agree with what they are trying to do. Why do they need to launder that line item with the rest?

It's ok for people footing the bill in part to want know what exactly they are paying for, even if people may still keep dying? Good to know, I was starting to think people would be surprised...

When people choose to go into that line of work knowing that's the risk they could take on (or outsource to someone else through dubious means), not sure why people have to be sympathetic to that compared to all those who don't go into such line of work and still get killed everyday. But hey, dress it up in a flag and declare it a secret, makes it all better...

I think some people at any given point in time (and some institutions and some governments) do a better job than others at splitting their resources because in part because they have a better framework at recognizing what may reach that critical threshold faster than others based on a given set of conditions (or have lower switching costs when it comes to deciding to not allocate resources to something after a certain point).

It's not just going to be us regionals, unless we pretend that none of the commercial paper is being used as acceptable collateral at central clearing houses, bilateral or tri-party swaps globably.

Global central bank balance sheets since 2008 already tells the direction that it, when an crisis eventually unfolds, will go...

Heaven forbid any of these workers in these contested rto corps have exposure to non central/private bank monetary systems... going to make that "war" more complicated for them...

People are going to complain even more esp wrt markets (and whether they are trying to protect a loosing position or not)... you'll probably be better off just not reading these things...

> So your objection isn't at all particular to delivery apps or uber or EBT, it's broadly an objection to "regulation". Cool.

If you think once something has been enacted into law, will remain effective throughout its history and in the same way, then there's nothing really you will be able to understand.

If any particular regulation benefited the people it is supposed to serve the most on a more holistic basis, beyond some narrowly defined definition (more than those who can afford to bear the direct monetary costs of conforming to it), I wouldn't be against it. SNAP served a much bigger role in 1939 in supporting those who needed it most than it does today in 2023 via EBT. There is no political will to correct for the institutional graft in the US (and arguably in a lot of "developed markets") the poorer off will suffer more, until things slowly fall apart under its own weight. There's a balance to be had, and we're a long ways from that going on stateside and across the north atlantic.

> What produce are you going to be growing in your third-story apartment?

Me, nothing (minus some herbs/onions). Less than 100m from my 20+ story apartment people are raising chickens and goats and selling the meals they make thru them to me on the same channels I could buy from carrefour, also less than 100m from me. Having that choice matters more to those worse off than I, than trying to pretend that if they could be givin some permissioned credits to buy only from carrefours (and to the exclusion of those raising chickens and goats next door, unless they become subservient to the carrefours). Indonesian people are lucky in that the institutional graft from 1998 has yet to build up like SNAP from 1939 in the US, yet people can still benefit from the advancement of technology since 1939 in how to go about their lives esp when it comes to building up wealth in their local communities and meeting their own needs as how they define them.