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Molecular Electronics: Nanogap Electrodes towards Solid State Single-Molecule Transistors (Small 46/2015)

Ajuan Cui, Huanli Dong, Wenping Hu.

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Quantum computers promise to propel computing far beyond what today’s computers are capable of, but this potential has yet to be realized. In their search for a way to demonstrate quantum supremacy, researchers working in the EU-funded PHOQUSING project are developing a hybrid computational system based on cutting-edge integrated photonics that combines classical and quantum processes.

The project’s goal is to develop a quantum sampling machine that will put Europe at the forefront of photonic quantum computing. With this goal in mind, PHOQUSING project partner QuiX Quantum in the Netherlands has created the largest quantum photonic processor compatible with quantum dots (nanometer-sized semiconductor crystals that emit light of various colors when illuminated by ultraviolet light). The processor is the central component of the quantum sampling machine, a near-term quantum computing device able to show a quantum advantage.

“Quantum sampling machines based on light are believed to be very promising for showing a quantum advantage,” reports a news item posted on the QuiX Quantum website. “The problem of drawing samples from a probability distribution, mathematically too complex for a classical computer, can be solved easily by letting light propagating [sic] through such quantum sampling machines. At the very core of quantum sampling machines there are large-scale linear optical interferometers, i.e. photonic processors.”

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Stuart Russell weighs up a book on the risks and rewards of the AI revolution.

Circa 2019 face_with_colon_three Biological singularity here we come :3.

Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 12,181 (2019) Cite this article.

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📝 The paper “Minerva — Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models” is available here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.

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Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer was crowned fastest on the planet in the semiannual Top500 list. Frontier more than doubled the speed of the last titleholder, Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer, and is the first to officially clock speeds over a quintillion calculations a second—a milestone computing has pursued for 14 years.

That’s a big number. So before we go on, it’s worth putting into more human terms.

Imagine giving all 7.9 billion people on the planet a pencil and a list of simple arithmetic or multiplication problems. Now, ask everyone to solve one problem per second for four and half years. By marshaling the math skills of the Earth’s population for a half-decade, you’ve now solved over a quintillion problems.

NIA-funded researchers identified areas of the genome responsible for accelerating or slowing down brain aging.

While the OPD has been thrown open to the people, work is going on war footing as PM Modi is expected to inaugurate the hospital early next month. The hospital already has 25 transport ventilators from the PM CARES fund.

Any person coming for treatment will only have to pay Rs 10 in registration charges for a lifetime and there are nominal charges for treatment.

AIIMS Bilaspur is set up with the objectives of correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services and also to augment facilities for quality medical education in the country.

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