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nilslice commented on Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming    · Posted by u/rramadass
nilslice · a month ago
I worked at one of the quantum computing co's on their compiler stack (so pretty much pure classical compute stuff), but in order to have even a baseline understanding of the computations and programming using qubits, I had to first get a better intuition for the underlying quantum mechanics at play. This was a great introduction to the physics underpinning the computations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3bPUKo5zc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

It's long, and the subject matter is intimidating at times, but watch, re-watch, then go deep by finding papers on subjects like superposition and entanglement, which are the key quantum phenomena that unlock quantum computing.

It also helps to understand a bit about how various qubit modalities are physically operated and affected by the control systems (e.g. how does a program turn into qubit rotations, readouts, and other instruction executions). Some are superconducting chips using electromagnetic wave impulses, some are suspending an ion/atom and using lasers to mutate states, or photonic chips moving light through gates - among a handful of other modalities in the industry and academia.

IBM's Qiskit platform may still have tooling, simulators, and visualizers that help you write a program and step through the operations on the qubit(s) managed by the program:

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit

nilslice commented on Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads   carolinacloud.io/... · Posted by u/bojangleslover
tianqi · 2 months ago
I'm very interested in your product. However, I'd like to report a strange phenomenon: whenever I open your website's homepage, although it doesn't seem to use a lot of memory, my Chrome becomes extremely laggy, and afterwards my entire Mac OS becomes very slow. The first time I encountered this, I couldn't determine the cause. I closed all applications and rebooted my computer. After working perfectly for a while, I reopened your website, and my Chrome and OS became almost unresponsive. After rebooting my computer again, without opening any other applications, just Chrome and your website, and it immediately became nearly unresponsive again. Therefore, while I'm not entirely sure, it seems highly related to your website.
nilslice · 2 months ago
It's good of you not to jump to any conclusions!
nilslice commented on What if you don't need MCP at all?   mariozechner.at/posts/202... · Posted by u/jdkee
whoknowsidont · 3 months ago
Can you do yourself a favor and look at the source code and tell me why you think MCP is necessary here?

I mean you just took some examples and went "See MCP!" without any actual understanding of what that code is doing.

All of these have underlying API's that have exactly ZERO need for MCP. All of this functionality already exists and can be used with LLM's.

* https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209072009-Install...

* https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_quickstart.html

* https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReferenc...

The most hilarious quote from one of those projects:

>The proxy server is required because the public facing API for UXP Based JavaScript plugin does not allow it to listen on a socket connection (as a server) for the MCP Server to connect to (it can only connect to a socket as a client).

Maybe that should have been the sign that this was completely unnecessary and stupid?

>Do you know of another way you can control all of those applications via LLMs?

Seriously. This becoming a bad joke. I mean conceptually, what did you think was happening here? MCP was just magically doing something that didn't already exist before?

It's a waste of effort and time. Do not use MCP.

nilslice · 3 months ago
Idk what you think you have to gain with your stance lol

No one looks at MCP and sees "magic", they just see "finished integration". Something you can pretty much use straight away. That's the point.

nilslice commented on What if you don't need MCP at all?   mariozechner.at/posts/202... · Posted by u/jdkee
nilslice · 3 months ago
What do all of the links below have in common? Do you know of another way you can control all of those applications via LLMs? Computer use?

https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp

https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp

https://github.com/CoplayDev/unity-mcp

https://github.com/mikechambers/adb-mcp

nilslice commented on WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel   github.com/joelseverin/li... · Posted by u/marcodiego
nilslice · 3 months ago
Very cool.

If anyone's curious to see what's packed in here at a glance: https://modsurfer.dylibso.com/module?hash=3fa6b28252b0d72c82...

nilslice commented on WASM to Dalvik/Art Compiler for Android   github.com/dylibso/chicor... · Posted by u/nilslice
nilslice · 7 months ago
Dynamic on-device code compilation from WebAssembly bytecode to Android (ART) native.
nilslice commented on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google   theverge.com/openai/70599... · Posted by u/rcchen
rileymichael · 7 months ago
> It’s so good that I complete the work of weeks and months within days

and yet you're pulling 14 hour workdays..

nilslice · 7 months ago
i get it... i find the productivity is extremely addictive
nilslice commented on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation   mcp-b.ai/... · Posted by u/miguelspizza
slt2021 · 7 months ago
Could all of this be replaced simply by publishing OpenAPI (Swagger) spec and using universal swagger mcp client ???

This basically leaves up to the user to establish authenticated session manually.

Assuming claude is smart enough to pick up API key from prompt/config, and can use swagger based api client, wouldnt that be the same?

nilslice · 7 months ago
pls don't put an api key in a prompt
nilslice commented on MCP is eating the world   stainless.com/blog/mcp-is... · Posted by u/emschwartz
nilslice · 8 months ago
should kill off sdk generators too

u/nilslice

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