Computational fun :D

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For a really good joke, I have a strong reading recommendation for my fellow computing freaks as well as anyone even remotely into math. (Starting page 199, 'Quantum Disavantage') It's a lovely response to the guys at IBM (Kim et al., 2023) who did a quantum computing thingy that got quite a lot of media attention. They also claimed it was impossible to do this stuff on a 'regular' computer, which was refuted within days and caused a few shitstorms (not least because it's rude to publish this kind of claim in Nature without releasing a preprint on arXiv first... Manners, manners!) in the modeller scene. Now, someone... took this as an opportunity to bring out the good old Commodore 64 for entertainment. I love it. It's totally worth it for the photo of the 'experimental setup' alone, but really, the whole thing is quite funny. (Of course, anything published by The Association for Computational Heresy usually is.)  :D :D :D

Also found in the same volume (page 398 ff) is a really lovely Toki Pona paper ('Toki Pona and Orders of Semantic Completeness') - everybody's favorite language, right?!?