The Classical Channel

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12:10 AM

It does invite the question about who their target audience might be. Presumably an ad campaign's optimized their presentation to maximize the desired effect on the ensemble of observers.

Apple's ads always look stupid to me, but they're still raking in the cash.

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vzn

4:42 AM

@Nat the issue of "fundamental randomness" is very deep & related to the question of completeness of QM debated by einstein (EPR1935) / bohr which later translated into bell nonlocality. the copenhagen interpretation is basically that there is "no deeper reality" and that QM randomness is not due to imprecision in measurement etc... there is some new research that seems to impinge on the question. eg weak measurement, "reality of wavefn," etc

@Discretelizard clearly work in progress™

@Nat my feeling is that the widespread bias against "mere philosophizing" wrt QM is misplaced and that if QM is like an iceberg then philosophy is like the hidden 9/10ths...

2 hours later…

DanielSank

6:29 AM

Hi, everybody.

Anonymous

@DanielSank Hello

Anonymous

What's up?

Prathyush Poduval

10:45 AM

@Blue Why don't you add a book recommendation question? It could help lots of beginners on this site

Anonymous

@PrathyushPoduval You could add it!

Anonymous

But I'm not sure how the community would look at it

Prathyush Poduval

Well, Idk what to ask :P i don't have plans of entering the field yet

Anonymous

We still haven't come to any consensus about how to handle resource-recommendation questions

Prathyush Poduval

@Blue Doesn't matter it'd be a pretty useful thing. The ones on PSE have been of great help

Anonymous

10:48 AM

And I'm afraid of pissing of the people here

Prathyush Poduval

if you don't piss anybody off, then youre not doing it right lol

No matter what, these questions will pop up pretty soon. Better make a central question to add it all

Anonymous

Let's see. I'll talk about that with the people here

Prathyush Poduval

yeah cool

Anonymous

@heather Consider this: Which questions have been asked so many times, they need a list of how to close them now? (just an example) This community is developing a strong propensity for rule making, anticipating problems before they occur in actual practice. This site is three days old — this can make a community unapproachable fast. Avid participation is great, but a disproportionate amount of legislating hypothetical problems is one of those red flags we look for, particularly when folks down-vote and reject the hard-earned lessons learned by every other site on the network. — Robert Cartaino ♦ yesterday

Prathyush Poduval

Yeah that makes sense

Anonymous

10:53 AM

@PrathyushPoduval QC is interesting though. I like it because it's so interdisciplinary. You have people from all over math, physics, computer science and engineering

Anonymous

Especially the information theory aspects of it

Prathyush Poduval

@Blue Yeah it is, but for starters I'm doing a lot of stuff too nowadays. Then I don't know how to start QC :-{)

Anonymous

You have a lot of time

Anonymous

Go slow :)

Prathyush Poduval

yeah, lots of time.... if i go too slow i'll get bored :P

going fast is a problem too, i'll end up skipping some important stuff or another

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Kiro

2:12 PM

Just out of curiosity, if the site gets out of beta will some old quantum computing questions from physics.stackexchange be migrated here?

Rory Alsop

2:35 PM

@Kiro the general rule is that you don't migrate questions to another site if they are on topic where they are. There are exceptions, but that's the usual rule.

If they have had no answers etc then it's an easy decision to move them

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Mithrandir24601

11:06 PM

@Blue Could you explain your retagging here? (I'm not stalking you :P I just happened to be reading the question)

Nat

11:18 PM

Okay, it's official: I'm procrastinating too much.

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