I advocate for logical and consistent viewpoints on controversial topics. If you’re looking at my profile, I’ve probably made you mad by doing so.

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  • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.catoAnimemes@ani.socialTypes of Smart People
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    6 months ago

    There’s not really a way to “source” this until a scientist decides to create a longitudinal study on how people refer to themselves. I’ve never seen one, but maybe one exists. I think this one’s going to have to pretty much remain a personal experience kind of thing for now!


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    I don’t think our two statements are mutually exclusive. There’s certainly a difference between education and being smart.

    EDIT: if you disagree, what is someone smart before they get into school? Not smart? In countries where they don’t have formal education systems, is nobody intelligent over there?

    Is someone who went to school for 10 years automatically considered smart? That would mean that more school equals more smart. How about somebody who got held back and had to repeat a grade six times? Are they extra smart then? How about those that did so well in school that they skipped a grade? Are they not smart then?

    Your logic doesn’t hold up, random disagreeing people. There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.











  • The part that doesn’t make sense is how a guess on a QC in a binary is any better than a scientist just guessing an outcome from a binary. Yeah, it can do it a lot, but if you can’t test the outcome to verify if it’s correct or not, how is it better than any other way of guessing outcomes?

    Statistically, it absolutely isn’t. Even if it continually narrows things down via guesses, it’s still no more valuable than any other guesses. Because in all the whitepapers I’ve seen, it’s not calculating anything because it can’t. It’s simply assuming that one option is correct.

    In the real world, it’s not a calculation and it doesn’t assist in… anything really. It’s no better than a random number generator assigning those numbers to a result. I don’t get the utility other than potentially breaking numerical cryptography.


  • So that’s the part that gets me stuck. There is no clear answer and it has no way to check the result as QC aren’t capable of doing so (otherwise they wouldn’t be using QC since they can only be based on binary inputs and binary guesses of true / false outcomes on a massive scale). How can it decide that it is “correct” and that the task is completed?

    Computations based on guesses of true / false can only be so accurate with no way to check the result in the moment.