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Aug 27, 2022
Introducing the largest quantum photonic processor to date
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics
Quantum computers promise to propel computing far beyond what today’s computers are capable of, but this potential has yet to be realized. In their search for a way to demonstrate quantum supremacy, researchers working in the EU-funded PHOQUSING project are developing a hybrid computational system based on cutting-edge integrated photonics that combines classical and quantum processes.
The project’s goal is to develop a quantum sampling machine that will put Europe at the forefront of photonic quantum computing. With this goal in mind, PHOQUSING project partner QuiX Quantum in the Netherlands has created the largest quantum photonic processor compatible with quantum dots (nanometer-sized semiconductor crystals that emit light of various colors when illuminated by ultraviolet light). The processor is the central component of the quantum sampling machine, a near-term quantum computing device able to show a quantum advantage.
“Quantum sampling machines based on light are believed to be very promising for showing a quantum advantage,” reports a news item posted on the QuiX Quantum website. “The problem of drawing samples from a probability distribution, mathematically too complex for a classical computer, can be solved easily by letting light propagating [sic] through such quantum sampling machines. At the very core of quantum sampling machines there are large-scale linear optical interferometers, i.e. photonic processors.”
Aug 27, 2022
Artificial intelligence: The future is superintelligent
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Circa 2017 face_with_colon_three
Stuart Russell weighs up a book on the risks and rewards of the AI revolution.
Aug 27, 2022
Quantum-Inspired Acromyrmex Evolutionary Algorithm
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biological, information science, quantum physics, singularity
Circa 2019 face_with_colon_three Biological singularity here we come :3.
Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 12,181 (2019) Cite this article.
Aug 27, 2022
Is Google’s New AI As Smart As A Human? 🤖
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
❤️ Check out Fully Connected by Weights & Biases: https://wandb.me/papers.
📝 The paper “Minerva — Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models” is available here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.
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Aug 27, 2022
Wickedly Fast Frontier Supercomputer Officially Ushers in the Next Era of Computing
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: mathematics, supercomputing
Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer was crowned fastest on the planet in the semiannual Top500 list. Frontier more than doubled the speed of the last titleholder, Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer, and is the first to officially clock speeds over a quintillion calculations a second—a milestone computing has pursued for 14 years.
That’s a big number. So before we go on, it’s worth putting into more human terms.
Imagine giving all 7.9 billion people on the planet a pencil and a list of simple arithmetic or multiplication problems. Now, ask everyone to solve one problem per second for four and half years. By marshaling the math skills of the Earth’s population for a half-decade, you’ve now solved over a quintillion problems.
Aug 27, 2022
Scientists map genome regions that regulate speed of brain aging
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
NIA-funded researchers identified areas of the genome responsible for accelerating or slowing down brain aging.
Aug 27, 2022
AIIMS Bilaspur ties up with IIT Mandi for drone delivery of medicines
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, drones, education
While the OPD has been thrown open to the people, work is going on war footing as PM Modi is expected to inaugurate the hospital early next month. The hospital already has 25 transport ventilators from the PM CARES fund.
Any person coming for treatment will only have to pay Rs 10 in registration charges for a lifetime and there are nominal charges for treatment.
AIIMS Bilaspur is set up with the objectives of correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services and also to augment facilities for quality medical education in the country.
Aug 27, 2022
UK Ministry of Defence issues Safety Alert over electric car charging points
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: sustainability, transportation
Aug 27, 2022
NASA, Boeing target February for first crew flight on Starliner spacecraft
Posted by Eric Klien in categories: internet, satellites
One of the larger SpaceX disasters was eight months ago, a Falcon 9 was heavily damaged in rough high seas and there was a question of whether it would fly again. It was enough of a problem that SpaceX changed their landings to the Caribbean instead of the Atlantic Ocean during the winter to avoid high seas. (This reduced the amount of payload the rocket could support.)
Well, the rocket is going to fly again tomorrow as the 4th flight in a streak of at least 7 consecutive Starlink launches. SpaceX is launching faster and faster as their need for Starlink launches grows. They are hiring more technicians so they can launch faster from their 3 Falcon 9 launch towers.
SpaceX rolled a Falcon 9 rocket to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral and test-fired its engines Thursday, prepping for liftoff Saturday night carrying another group of Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 booster has been repaired after a rough recovery in December knocked it out of SpaceX’s rocket reuse rotation.
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