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by da-bacon 4y ago
For why you should basically ignore this paper because it is "both novel and correct, but not in the same places" see Scott's writeup https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7143
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by da-bacon 4y ago
They moved the goal posts to misrepresent Grover speedup. Taking an oracular result and opening the box, in almost all cases, changes the query complexity speed up. Yes we've known that since, well since people thought about oracular
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by da-bacon 4y ago
Google stopped using email for ad targeting https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-adv...
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by da-bacon 4y ago
I integrated a registrar with many registries a few years ago. It amused me greatly that .io had by far the clunkiest api of all the many registries…with quite a few special cases against the standard. They’ve since been bought so they lik
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by da-bacon 4y ago
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by da-bacon 4y ago
The k dimensional Weisfieler-Leman algorithm https://www.iti.zcu.cz/wl2018/wlpaper.html Connect a huge number of graph isomorphism algorithms with a algebra.
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by da-bacon 4y ago
Music for the thousanders from Anathem.
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Yep! This was PR for IonQ SPACing so totally focused on running via their API or APIs they integrate with (Azure, AWS)
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Well you also want to run the program and process the data, so for that later step it’s nice to stay in one language that has support for the data analysis.
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by da-bacon 5y ago
IBM has a nice online resource for learning quantum computing using their framework (Qiskit) https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Lot's of reasons for this. Mostly having to do with the minimal size and sophistication of current quantum programs, and the background that many of these efforts arose from Physics teams where python is heavily used. One of the most
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Write a Jaqal IonQ API interface, and I'm sure they will add it (I no longer work for said company)
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Oh this looks familiar! I left off my favorite https://github.com/dabacon/qsel (have never used this to run against a real device).
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Funny to see this here. I created scirate years ago when I was in academia working in quantum computing. Back when Digg was hot. When I left that world and joined Google, I shut it down as I needed to spend all my time learning to code (tru
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by da-bacon 5y ago
I used to work for a registrar and had the job of connecting up to the registries, who are the entities that ultimately allocate the domain names. (Yeah great naming choice, no chance of those words being confused with each other.) Regist
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by da-bacon 5y ago
Those are mostly doctors. Any school with a decent med school will have top earners like this.
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Von Neumann’s elephant in single cell genomics(twitter.com)
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by da-bacon 6y ago
If only. Dirac and Wiener did not understand the significance of the action appearing where it did. Feynman gave it meaning. An analogy for what you are saying is that Einstein just rederived Lorentz’s equations. That’s one of the mos
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by da-bacon 8y ago
I'd say start with the quantum computing specific stuff and then add the physics. It will make some of the quantum physics stuff easier, I think.
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by da-bacon 8y ago
I currently work on the software that runs Google's quantum computers. To paraphrase the Talking Heads: How did I get there? PhD 2001 in physics, working on quantum computation. Postdocs at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute, then landed
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by da-bacon 8y ago
Happy to answer any questions (I worked on Cirq). There are already lots of great open source frameworks and languages (qiskit, pyquil, q#, among many others). A few things we've tried to do which we think are important for near term
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by da-bacon 8y ago
Per alumni, it has the same rate of Nobel prize winners as MIT https://www.nature.com/news/where-nobel-winners-get-their-st...
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by da-bacon 8y ago
Does the recent result on BQP not being in PH relative to an oracle do anything to your priors about the power of quantum computers relative to classical computers? If you had to distill why that oracle separation works, what would you say
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by da-bacon 8y ago
I think to say this is a "liberal" problem is to miss the fact that more than a majority of independents, and nearly a majority of Republicans oppose nuclear energy http://news.gallup.com/poll/190064/fir
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by da-bacon 8y ago
That class was so many careers ago. Glad you enjoyed the notes. I wonder if I taught it today: maybe I'd start by having students use a simulator, or maybe trying to write a simple simulator themselves!
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by da-bacon 9y ago
Cool! My April fools day joke this year was a quantum programming language made up entirely of "entanglement" and "superposition": https://github.com/dabacon/qsel The simulator takes about 150 lines
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by da-bacon 9y ago
"Quantum advantage with shallow circuits" by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00690 What's beautiful about this paper is that it shows a provable separation in the power of quantum c
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by da-bacon 9y ago
When I found a version of this paper, as an undergrad researcher circa 1995, it changed the course of my life and I spent an amazing decade working in quantum computing. For those who are interested, the result quoted by Wheeler, which atte
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by da-bacon 9y ago
You can find a bunch of n-body solutions, some of which like those in this article are pretty amazing, on Cris Moore's gallery page http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/gallery.html
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by da-bacon 9y ago
Does not pass the Tulip test: Also keep in mind the growth of Tulips as a whole. New wealth is being created and reinvested. For example, I participated in a tulip offering 18 months ago which has produced a sizable value. I then took 20% o

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