accidentally just spent nearly four and a half hours watching gettysburg (1993). visually stunning, accurate to my historical recollection and visits to the battlefield. pretty great film!
Quantum algorithms exploit interference - the alignment and cancellation of amplitudes - to outperform any classical probabilistic method. In quantum programming, interference is our power tool: we engineer it to build up correct answers and erase the wrong ones.
— Michael Nielsen, Isaac Chuang, Scott Aaronson
The gate logic is trivial enough, and I understand the advantages of taking a fuzzier, probabilistic (ok, yes, "precisely probabilistic", and yes, the interference effects are very neat) view towards the result of a computation. The obvious question once one realizes the feasibility of developing a Turing-complete computer using quantum gates is: what does it take to build physical qubits?
engineering.princeton.edu
Princeton Engineering - Princeton's new quantum chip built for scale
In a Nov. 5 article in the journal Nature, a Princeton team reported their new qubit lasts for over 1 millisecond — three times longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting and nearly fifteen times longer than industry standard processors. The team…
HRANA – On the twenty-sixth day of nationwide protests, according to aggregated data compiled by HRANA, the number of confirmed fatalities has reached 5,002, while the number of deaths still under investigation has risen to 9,787. In addition, at least 7,391 people have suffered serious injuries during the protests, and the total number of arrests has increased to 26,852. These figures were recorded under circumstances in which, just one day earlier, official authorities, by citing significantly lower numbers reportedly issued by the Legal Medicine Organization, attempted to solidify the government’s official narrative regarding the killings. At the same time, the internet shutdown in Iran, now approaching its third week, has continued unabated.
www.en-hrana.org
Day Twenty-Six of the Protests: Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests - Hrana
HRANA – On the twenty-sixth day of nationwide protests, according to aggregated data compiled by HRANA, the number of confirmed fatalities has reached 5,002, while the number of deaths still under investigation has risen to 9,787. In addition, at least 7,…
I am horrendously ill. Probably the flu. No bueno.
www.govexec.com
VA has shed 40,000 employees, Democratic report finds, with drastic impacts on veterans
The net staffing losses include thousands of front-line health care staff.
