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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 quantum computing? It’s not about quantum vs conventional computers, it’s about exponential vs quadratic complexity
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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