Why I Called This Blog Alpha 137
Every project needs a name. Most people pick something catchy, or something safe. I picked a number. 137. If you've spent any time around physicists, you've seen what this number does to them. It makes them uneasy. Richard Feynman - not exactly a guy who was easily bothered - said every physicist should pin it to their wall and stare at it. He called it one of the greatest mysteries in physics. Here's why. Take 1 and divide it by 137.035999… and you get the fine-structure con
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No, Quantum Computing Doesn't Replace AI. They're Not Even Playing the Same Game
I get this question constantly. At events, in DMs, over coffee: "So… does quantum replace AI?" Short answer: no. Longer answer: they're so different it's almost weird we compare them at all. It's like asking if a telescope replaces a library. One helps you study what already happened. The other lets you look at places nobody's been. Here's the simplest way I can put it. AI Is a Memory Machine Everything AI does comes from one place: the past. You feed it a trillion examples o
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