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I think this is the classical error of false dichotomy.

If someone with a classical bent asks for historical fiction and you take them to the romance section they will never come back.

It's sad that the classical education is no more, but it's also true that the humanities rotted from within.

I once had a heated discussion with a classical violinist about who the most known Dane was outside of Denmark.

I really did not expect this much resistance on HN to a fairly classical solution to the fermi paradox.

In fact, whereas meter in English poetry is based on emphasized syllables, meter in classical Greek poetry is based on syllable length.

We're not living in some sort of space technology dark ages here, where we've forgotten all of the fundamentals of the 1960s 'classical enlightenment'.

There's a great classical example of this in the Book of Jonah:4 Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.

I'm actually a bit curious about this myself...If you want to tap a classical signal traveling down a fiber, you want to turn that fiber into a beam splitter.

Lossless codecs are necessarily variable bitrate, and classical music compresses better than rock music.

A minor heresy: most valuable programming involves a lot more gluing together libraries than it involves classical algorithms.

Yay!The bad news, part 1: This particular quantum phenomenon turns out to be one that can be efficiently and accurately simulated using ordinary classical computers.

Here's a crazy thought... the really stonking smart physics PhDs who have spent their whole lives working on this problem are perfectly aware of the classical 18th-century physics you are referencing, and they've found it an unsatisfactory explanation.

However, it doesn't seem to be a quantum computer in the sense of something that exploits quantum effects to do computation faster than a classical device can do by more than a constant factor, and the recent hype about their machine is very misleading.

It does take a different skill set to analyze noisy, machine-generated data than to analyze clean, survey-like data; it's a skill set that is more biased towards computational knowledge than classical experimental design, hence the shift in emphasis.

They found that the performance characteristics -- which problems are easier to solve and which harder, and by how much -- match up well between D-Wave's machine and the simulation of the quantum process it's meant to be an implementation of, whereas classical simulated annealing doesn't match at all well.