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China's claim to quantum supremacy - what you should know
Contents What’s this about China and quantum supremacy? But what’s quantum supremacy? Why care? What’s asymptotic speedup, and why is it relevant to…
Jan 17, 2021 • 
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Covid-19 mRNA vaccines - what you should know
On November 9th, 2020, Pfizer and BioNTech announced its first interim analysis (evaluable case count of 94) from the Phase 3 study of their Covid-19…
Jan 11, 2021 • 
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Blockchains - demystifying the hype a little
There’s a lot of hype and confusion surrounding blockchain. This article is my attempt to cut the crap a little, primarily for myself. Most explanations…
Dec 26, 2020 • 
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OpenAI's GPT-3 - what you should know
GPT-3 in short OpenAI’s GPT-3 is “autocomplete on steroids”: a language model that uses deep learning to produce text by predicting the next word in a…
Dec 24, 2020 • 
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DeepMind's AlphaFold and the protein folding problem - what you should know
On 30 November 2020, DeepMind -- the best AI lab in the world -- announced that its deep learning system AlphaFold 2 had been recognized as solving the…
Dec 18, 2020 • 
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SpaceX's Starship SN8 explosion - what you should know
On 9 December 2020 5:45PM local time, the latest Starship prototype, SN8 -- short for Serial Number 8 -- took off from SpaceX’s facility near Boca Chica…
Dec 16, 2020 • 
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