An application which isn't ported to my platform is useless. An application that drains my battery as fast as an Electron app is worse than useless. So yes, it would be less bad.
I don't know any Muslims who are "anti" Christmas, though there was a class at our school that had to bad Christmas carols and decorations because of one christian family, I forget what sect.
Christianity had the best of European culture for the better part of 1000 years. Trust Americans to force the worst of it on innocent school kids.
Path tracing subsumes both Whitted-style ray tracing and radiosity. It solves the rendering equation by constructing a random variable, the mean of which is the integral.
Having said that, the main reason why the industry (including Renderman) have moved over to path tracing isn't primarily to get reflection and refraction right, it's to get GI and subsurface scattering right.
You're about 10 years behind modern thinking when it comes to production VFX rendering. Almost everything is path tracing with postprocessed denoising now.
If Wikileaks had been presented with leaks from different political establishments and chose to publish one and not the other, THAT would suggest a lack of impartiality.
It has 5 years (at best) before quantum computing destroys it.
You are severely overestimating both the rate of advancement in quantum computing. I give it around 15 years.
Realistically, Bitcoin will probably be functionally extinct for other reasons before then. Presumably replaced by something that doesn't use so much damn power.
Which brings up something that puzzles me. I'm a little surprised that you're allowed to plug it in. The chance that it complies with today's electrical safety regulations has to be close to zero...
There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". There is only what others are willing to pay for it.
A hundred years ago, the thought of anyone paying money for horse manure was unthinkable. It had value as fertiliser, but nobody handed over money for something that was freely available on many streets. People pay (a small amount of) money for it today.
NASA and Google already bought a D-Wave together five years ago. They're just continuing the partnership.
NASA has a lot of interest in solving constrained optimisation problems. They used to be one of the world leaders. If a quantum computer will help, then it's in their interest to find out.
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An application which isn't ported to my platform is useless. An application that drains my battery as fast as an Electron app is worse than useless. So yes, it would be less bad.
Apple is the only computer company from the 70s that I can think of that is still around making personal computers.
I would think that HP counts.
"Das Mädchen"
Australia is currently working on a legislative solution to the discrete logarithm problem.
Dyirbal has four.
I don't know any Muslims who are "anti" Christmas, though there was a class at our school that had to bad Christmas carols and decorations because of one christian family, I forget what sect.
Christianity had the best of European culture for the better part of 1000 years. Trust Americans to force the worst of it on innocent school kids.
Get the kids to sing this, I say.
We do of course occasionally pray to Saint IGNUcius, [...]
What do you mean, "we"? The Patron Saint of Creative Personal Hygiene is not recognised by Vim users.
Path tracing subsumes both Whitted-style ray tracing and radiosity. It solves the rendering equation by constructing a random variable, the mean of which is the integral.
Having said that, the main reason why the industry (including Renderman) have moved over to path tracing isn't primarily to get reflection and refraction right, it's to get GI and subsurface scattering right.
"Radiosity"? "Renderman-style shading"?
You're about 10 years behind modern thinking when it comes to production VFX rendering. Almost everything is path tracing with postprocessed denoising now.
For example.
It's going to save them a fortune on napkins though.
If you're determined to get yourself deliberately thrown out of Starbucks, surely you can think of a nobler reason than that.
The perfect is the enemy of the good enough. This is doubly true when it's a PR move.
If they catch you watching porn in a Starbucks, you're still gonna get thrown out.
If Wikileaks had been presented with leaks from different political establishments and chose to publish one and not the other, THAT would suggest a lack of impartiality.
That didn't happen as far as we know.
It has 5 years (at best) before quantum computing destroys it.
You are severely overestimating both the rate of advancement in quantum computing. I give it around 15 years.
Realistically, Bitcoin will probably be functionally extinct for other reasons before then. Presumably replaced by something that doesn't use so much damn power.
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Nobody doubts the Earth will survive. Humans might not, but the planet will be fine.
Which brings up something that puzzles me. I'm a little surprised that you're allowed to plug it in. The chance that it complies with today's electrical safety regulations has to be close to zero...
"Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from."
The sentiment is as old as coaxial cable. Only the amount of crap changes over time.
Ideally not manufacturable - this means elements are ideal
...or counterfeitable. Gold became especially useful as a currency when touchstone was discovered.
If I put a bar of gold in your path you will pick it up.
...and at the earliest opportunity, I will sell it to someone else in exchange for cash which, unlike gold, is actually useful to me.
There is no such thing as "intrinsic value". There is only what others are willing to pay for it.
A hundred years ago, the thought of anyone paying money for horse manure was unthinkable. It had value as fertiliser, but nobody handed over money for something that was freely available on many streets. People pay (a small amount of) money for it today.
D-Wave is not a universal quantum computer. But it is a quantum computer nonetheless.
Because D-Wave isn't a universal quantum computer. It only solves annealing problems, and not even all of those.
You can't, for example, run Shor's algorithm on it.
NASA and Google already bought a D-Wave together five years ago. They're just continuing the partnership.
NASA has a lot of interest in solving constrained optimisation problems. They used to be one of the world leaders. If a quantum computer will help, then it's in their interest to find out.