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To the authors of such blurbs about scientific breakthroughs: please cite the exact paper you refer to within the first paragraph, including a hyperlink. Using
by pama 5y ago
To the authors of such blurbs about scientific breakthroughs: please cite the exact paper you refer to within the first paragraph, including a hyperlink. Using a generic phrase like: "... a team has demonstrated a way to detect errors in the setting of a quantum bit..." is not enough information to unambiguously understand what the author of this piece is talking about. In paragraph 7, the author of the blurb mentioned the name of the relevant scientists for the first time, after the blurb quoted a number of other scientists, included a link to a previous paper, and the reader still doesn't know which paper this blurb is referring to... I guess that even an AI-based blurb generator could learn some simple rules about being specific in crediting the source that inspired their writing.
- Strilanc 5y agoThis is the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11482 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11482 It's actually from last year, and other groups have done better experiments since then (in particular, experiments doing multiple rounds of correction instead of just immediately smashing the system and analyzing the pieces). It's quite funny to see a big deal being made of this paper now rather than a year ago.