African slavers

Slave catchers galore

In Nigeria, I remember my grandmother saying that when she was a little girl her great grandmother always said, ‘be careful how you’re behaving, if you’re naughty I’ll give you two the slave catchers’.

That must have been a terrible, terrible thing to tell a child…

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Quantum counting

IBM claims advance in quantum computing

Coco finds it most appropriate that the BBC has reported that the Eagle has, at 127, twice as many qubits as the previous IBM processor.

Now 127 is an odd number, so it is impossible, so his simple understanding of numbers tells him, that it should be exactly twice another integer.

IBM claims advance in quantum computing

However, being a quantum processor one may safely conclude that the previous one had 63 or 64 qubits. Shrödinger knows why.

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Credimus

Words which are familiar

If you were born before 1965 or sing in a choir then these words may be very familiar to you. They form the core of many a choral work. But did you know that a similar set of words is used frequently but for a far different, yet incoherent, purpose? First of all, let me turn you to what the Bible says: There is no god, so says the fool in his heart.

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