There is precedent for this. IC Satellite optics were years ahead of commercial. Same with cryptography. The NSA invented asymmetric encryption and kept it secret. I wouldn’t be surprised if they know a few advanced things about quantum computing that IBM hasn’t figured n out yet

I would, I've written about this before. A common error is to think that say NSA mathematicians have access to what's in the "free world", but those on the outside don't have access to the inside.

The reason this is an error is because research is an interactive process. Spooks can read papers, but they can't freely discuss with outside researchers - not what they themselves are working on of course, but even talking to outsiders about what the outsiders are working on, can be risky, since it can accidentally reveal a lot.

Secrecy cripples research. Even in areas where the TLAs hoover up the majority of graduates (was apparently true of math a while ago), they often fall behind.

There was a time when the TLAs could just call people like Claude Shannon, demand he work for them and never tell anyone about what he was working on, and he would say OK. That time is long gone. They don't have that goodwill any longer, and the price of isolation for a researcher has only gotten worse as communication has improved.

They are, but slowly

I havnt seen this before Does (dead) mean they got downvoted or that everything they write is voided? How do you know what they wrote is appallingly bad?

Turn on "showdead" in your profile and you can see what they wrote. Without it, you just see that it's dead.

Can be either. We know because receipts were provided upthread.

That’s not what the headline says. Changing headline is a violation of hackers news rules

This whole thing feels like a troll. We should assume any new HN account created in the last 18 months is much more likely to be a bot, and now we got OpenClaw to worry about. Nothing stopping our true adversary or troublemakers from giving OpenClaw a plausible new identity and telling it to argue about given world view. Or pass whatever false information it can to try to change public opinion. Can you tell which replies in this thread are real vs propaganda?

Gollum as massive creature is so inaccurate to the book that i criticise too

The book never stated Gollum's size. In later revisions, Tolkien actually added that after these illustrations for that reason!

The author ignores that a small business shoppers falls in North America retail, so only dividing consumer household is incorrect

My relatives use it for ordering office supplies for their business.

I read it twice; also have no idea what it’s implying

I imagine it's a case where you hire a dozen or so test attendants.

Humans born for energy use/consumption was the initial plot to The Matrix wasn’t it?

Try something not boring and see what happens?

Well that’s interesting. It shows they’re also infringing on Isaac asimov’s Foundation series

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-sql-db-vector-search/...