"Critical data would become inaccessible, websites would go dark, and essential state services like hospital IT systems would be thrown into chaos," says Robin Berjon, a digital governance specialist who advises EU policymakers.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bullshit
The UK Atomic Energy Authority @ukaeaofficial.bsky.social and Italy's Eni have partnered to build a cutting edge fusion fuel cycle facility at Culham Campus, to be completed by 2028 🇬🇧💪🇮🇹
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RNA xkcd.com/3056
Wow, the balls are taking all possible paths simultaneously all at once! The only possible explanation for this is that we live in a multiverse! I'm sure with a bit of engineering this Galton board could solve NP-hard problems. Which startup made it? I'm ready to bet all my savings on it!
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As a PR pro, we used to tell people to get ahead of various online controversies by making statements that refute them. It turns out this is the absolute worst way to respond to criticism or correct errors of any kind. Social media has made this worse. When you respond, it kick-starts issues again.
Error correction isn’t the only place where corporate researchers have brazenly redefined terms to mimic progress (cf attempted redefinitions of quantum volume, solve, utility, quantum, advantage, majorana, etc).
Quantum computing is hard, but we won’t get there by pretending. Do the work!
The [[1,1,1]] code is the best code. Why else would it repeat three times that it is number 1?
Unlike other codes, which are only now beginning to break even, [[1,1,1]] codes have always achieved results equal to the best physical qubits.
Call now to leverage the [[1,1,1]] code for your use cases!
Congratulations, by redefining logical qubits you can get more "logical qubits"!
Here's our short summary of predictions for 2025: "Quantum CEO working on platform Q predicts big breakthroughs in 2025 for platform Q"
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A group of undergrads vs a group of full professors solving the same problem.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Friends don't let friends use elliptic curve crypto for anonymity.
Another banger by Google:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.14256
Keep on accelerating ⚛️🚀
Clear example of a topological reality insulator at play.
The "hide the exponential" game Scott Aaronson has complained about for decades is alive and well: arxiv.org/abs/2412.13164
Yes, Shor's algorithm with 3 registers only needs very basic operations.
No, you can't pack a 2^2000 level quantum state into 1 oscillator and then operate accurately on it.
For a second, I thought this was the first post of a series which continued like "...so, I made this cool renderer, and look at them badass pictures".
Now I am sad.
I just sat down in a chair, and was supported because of trillions of quantum-mechanical interactions between the particles in my butt and the particles in the seat. This lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, an idea first propo
Based take.
If your application doesn't need a lot of quantum resources, you can't get better logical qubits than NVIDIA's.
If you have to read one groundbreaking quantum computing announcement today, read this one¹:
research.google/blog/making-...
¹ as opposed to the one talking about parallel universes and 10 septillion years.
That's the thing: surface code improvements are so much more interesting than yet-another-RCS-benchmark. But most of the excitement communicated to the broader public is about an utterly nonsensical number and an outlandish statement about "lending credence" to parallel universes.
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Screenshot from https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ where it is claimed that Google's Willow chip out-performed classical supercomputers by performing a computation 10^30 times faster, and that this leads credence to the notion that quantum computation takes place in parallel universes.
When claiming that you've beaten classical supercomputers by a factor of 10^30 isn't enough, why not spice things up and suggest that your results lead credence to the existence of parallel universes?
Our paper on distributed blind computing is out on Arxiv! In short: we performed gates on our spin qubits remotely using photons without our nodes knowing what we did - all thanks to distributed matter-light entanglement 🥳
You know how Bluesky rebuilt social media in a way that doesn't suck? Someone — maybe them — can do this for advertising too.
Ad-based models have been so extractive (with respect to people, publishers, and advertisers) for so long that we struggle to imagine better. But we should! Short 🧵⬇️
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