Recent content by ngrunenberg

Thank you so much for such a detailed response, you helped clear up a lot of the misconceptions I had about quantum computing. I will definitely dive deeper into the algorithms mentioned above. One follow up question; would it be more challenging to devise an algorithm as the number of qubits...

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, I'm not the brightest. I recently listened to Scott Aaronson's conversation with Lex Fridman, and an interview he did for Scientific American, regarding quantum computing (QC from now on) and have a question regarding how a QC finds a solution...

Good Evening, I have a question regarding, what seems to be the only proven way to extend life-span, caloric restriction. There seem to be new studies coming out every other month showing that caloric restriction is very positively correlated with an increase in lifespan, as well as a decrease...

Thank you all for clearing up my confusion! I appreciate the help; especially the links.

Thank you for the explanation and the link to the blog, that definitely cleared a few things up. It's not the process itself that is mysterious, I understand the concept; what is "mysterious" to me is how you can reward something that has no subjective interpretation of what a reward is. It...

I know I'm not that bright and I realize that this is a silly question to anyone in the field, but I was curious what the reward is in reinforcement learning algorithms. I understand the concept behind reinforcement learning, though I am unsure of how you could program a reward into a program...

As far as I am aware, dark energy and dark matter are placeholder words for a phenomenon which cosmologists have coined in order to explain a curious feature of our universe; observable matter only constitutes about 5% of our observable universe, DM ~27% and DE ~68% (as well as the fact that...

The underlying mechanism is not actually different; the only thing that differs is the substrate. You say that 1's and 0's propagating cannot ever amount to consciousness yet our brains work the same. Neurons are binary in nature; they either fire (1) or they do not fire (0). Also, simply...

The halo effect likely has a role to play in the final decision, among other biases which others have pointed out above. I don't think there will ever be a 100% 'fair' system implemented, unless it will be some form of computer algorithm which uses data from the job description to asses which...