Alex Meiburg

Quantum info, Magic the Gathering jokes, Lean, whatever else. | Assistant Professor, Applied Math @ UWaterloo IQC, Perimeter Institute.

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@Jess_Riedel @tenobrus Thanks for the vocab. :) I was using the terms I was familiar with (cases of misconduct, academic or otherwise, inside of universities mostly... lots of committees), I figured they weren't most standard but didn't know the right ones.

I admit I haven't thought about the 5th one!

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

Happy to have https://t.co/r299cvJFIv out!

(Deterministic) query complexity, and quantum query complexity, and several other kinds of query complexity, are *multiplicative under composition*: D(f ∘ g) = D(f) D(g). Randomized query complexity should be too, but it's not. :)

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@tenobrus I unironically believe this is massively missing from standard grade school civics lessons. If you don't ever stop to think about why we penalize crime, you won't have an informed opinion on what's just or not, and ultimately unjust laws are created to placate folks like you.

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@tenobrus Once you numericalize everything, some people fall into the other trap of "okay, so then it's just game theory right?". But it's not: we don't set up criminal penalties to minimize all crime (penalties go to infinity) or to maximize global welfare, we set up laws to feel just.

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@mccorvie @jevonduve moment

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@elon_lit It's mathematically neat that you can do this, but I don't see any way in which is this allows "malware" or an "exploit", and presenting it as such seems intellectually dishonest.

You're threat model assumes the user is downloading and running untrusted code -- or .so's!

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

Seems like some automated system saw heavy GitHub Actions use and concluded it was abusing Actions for general purpose computation and so 'flagged' (i.e. shadowbanned) me.

But this flow for recovery is broken!
@github's support could use some work!

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

GitHub
-Flags my account -> low rate limits
-I file ticket asking to have it re-enabled
-They respond that it violated ToS but don't elaborate where so I can't correct them
-"This ticket is archived, to respond open new ticket"
-Try to open new ticket
-Can't, rate limit 1/day🙃

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@eiselems @sudoingX Wait, can I use my VRAM for swap? Obviously only good for large paging in/out but extra 16GB at that speed is nice

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@Eggiari69 As someone who is very shit at drawing, yeah, I think I hate people like you. Because this person IS trying. The "just try it! You can do it!" is super unhelpful and genuinely harmful. 90% of people who are shit at it aren't going to post how much they hate it because why?

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@nickcammarata @csvoss @QiaochuYuan I like the post. Reads easy. :)

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@mariyaivasileva Lowkey that's a crazy reference list at the bottom. Good essay!

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

I question Google's recommendations here

[Alex Meiburg @Timeroot]

@lacker I think this is a joke but I had so so many people tell me this as serious advice in undergrad....? It's a pretty common argument to math students towards finance