The best article on this matter, by the best journalist on China, John Garnault.

http://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-ho...

Panhandle Lake is NOT the most remote place in the Boundary Waters. Not by any stretch. A clay foot algorithm.

I’ve had 100 square miles alone to myself in the BWCA for days/weeks and know the park well.

Since the BWCA is adjacent to the Quetico (on the Canadian side of the border), the concept of remote skews much further north. Time of year is also “remote” ... late October/early November is beautiful, if you don’t get “iced-in” for winter and can neither canoe nor walk out.

A relatively remote lake is Lake Kiana, where I’ve been between two simultaneous wolf packs (100 yds and 150 yards away in opposite directions). BWCA is where Yellowstone re-populated its wolves from. That close to 20-25 wolves chasing deer in the deep of night ... you listen for the “yip, yip, yip” of the pups trying to learn and keep up.

The sprinkling of intellectual “philosophy articles” in Hacker News have been of outstanding quality.

Yes, I believe you catch the gist of it.

It’s a calculation which proves there is indeed a complexity point whereby quantum computing will exceed classical computing ... by proving mathematically that adding enough qubits will suffice that.

Keep in mind this proof still hints at “a class of problems/calculations” which qubits will overwhelm, not a general overwhelming of everything. At least that’s my reading.

Still this mathematical proof is indeed interesting.

gp> it’s a calculation which proves there is indeed a complexity point whereby quantum computing will exceed classical computing

'Prove' is correct for the research but a bit strong for the language of your summary

The important caveat:

tfa> determination of the smallest computational task that is prohibitively hard for today’s classical computers.

'today's classical computers'.. or more timeless: 'contingent on p!=np'

Albert - Ignore the naysayers and keep writing your book and ideas. I have followed your writing for years, and share many of your hunches. As did Aaron Schwartz. It's a bold attempt at a future worth working on. Abundance is indeed here now, and attainable in a more equitable distribution. Not easily - indeed it's hard work - harder still allowing the negativity on Hacker News.

Each time the Cruise starts from a stop light, it's too slow.

Every time ... cars pass it, and dive into its lane (a typical reaction to slow moving vehicles).

Still, nice accomplishment.

It's hard to tell for sure what's happening in a sped up video like this, but starting slower than other cars at the light isn't necessarily a bad thing, depending on just how slow they're going. Going hard off the line is extremely inefficient for very little benefit. Autonomous cars correcting that habit could be good.

This is a pro, not a con. Slamming on the accelerator is a bad behavior that self driving cars will be correcting.

Regreyably, Chiyonofuji - the dominate Yokozuna of the 1990's decade (a lightwieght, strong, judo-esque wrestler and a sublime Japanese gentleman) is not included in the article.

It's actually worse than described in this article. XiJinPing is beyond ruthless, law is meaningless. Even this under-describes the reality.

Your comment should be the foundation for discussion about China nowadays.

An exceptional well-written article ... about pure intellectualism.

Two weeks ago during the announcement of his death I saw a lot of negativity on this site against what you call here "pure intellectualism".

I don't understand that.

I think Eco's writing demonstrates that there is no such thing. Intellectual, sure, but not pure.

Four things that actually help -

1) a shower before sleeping.

2) stop using iPad/iPhone and TV two hours before sleep. (I also use orange light bulbs which don't emit blue light near bedtime.)

3) begin sleep and wake up at regular times.

4) settling down mentally for the day gradually two hours before sleep.