Dan Hopkins

[QuEra Computing @QueraComputing]

The timeline to fault tolerance is shortening. QuEra, Harvard & MIT prove ultra-high-rate codes capable of <4.3×10⁻¹³ logical error rate are possible at practical block sizes, and realistic neutral-atom assumptions.

Blog: https://t.co/QrjRSgVIBw
Paper: https://t.co/5qKFuysVxj

[AWS Newsroom @AWSNewsroom]

We're expanding our collaboration with @QueraComputing to bring the first fault-tolerant quantum computers to the cloud through Amazon Braket.

By 2028, customers will access Libra: a Megaquop-scale device enabling applications in quantum chemistry, high-energy physics, and materials simulation beyond classical reach.

https://t.co/qtYlP0ETw0

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

We have made it all but impossible for young families to join the middle class in America. Let alone to save money and build wealth.

$2300 per month for daycare. $1800 for the mortgage on a starter house, plus another $700 for property tax and insurance. $1000 for a car payment, insurance, and gas. $1000 to $1500 for groceries, $2000 for bare bones health insurance. $500 for utilities and a cell phone.

Add it all up, you’re at close to $10k per month, just for basic essentials. After paying federal and state taxes, you need to gross $150k+ per year.

And that’s just for surviving. It doesn’t include saving for emergencies, retirement, medical expenses (remember, that bronze-tier insurance plan comes with a $10k family deductible!), college tuition. It certainly doesn’t leave anything for charity, home improvements, date nights, or an occasional vacation.

$150k. A number we used to think of as having “made it,” now the bare minimum to afford name-brand diapers and a car that won’t fall apart in a minor fender bender.

Is it any wonder why young people are putting off getting married and starting families? Why the political center is falling and Gen Z is racing for the political extremes, left and right alike?

Are we surprised that the rampart daycare fraud in Minnesota is so offensive to people? When taxpaying American citizens have to take home a middle-management salary just to keep their lights on?

I’m all for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. On an individual level, it’s great advice—we all have a responsibility to live within our means, take ownership of our lives, and build the lives we dream for our families. No one else will do it for us, nor should we expect them to.

But, on a societal level, if we don’t make it affordable for people—especially young people—to lead decent lives, we’re simply not going to make it.

And I’m not sure we even deserve to do so.

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

BACK AT THE TOP!

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:

Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.

Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.

[QuEra Computing @QueraComputing]

We are delighted to share our new paper on Nature:

Low-Overhead Transversal Fault Tolerance for Universal Quantum Computation

https://t.co/ghXTXHGxvV

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[Takuya Kitagawa/北川拓也 @takuyakitagawa]

QuEraはNVentures (NVIDIAのベンチャー投資)から投資を受け、以前に発表したGoogleやSoftbank Vision fundからの350億円弱の資金調達を拡大しました。AIと量子コンピューターは非常に相性のよいテクノロジーの組み合わせであり、NVIDIAと協業を深め、テクノロジーを発展させていきます。

[O.W. Root @owroot]

The window seat on a plane is an incredible modern blessing. Imagine our ancestors getting to take in such a view. They would have been stunned, speechless. And yet, some close the shade and do what? My God.

I can't understand those who shut the shade, and shut out the world.

[石破茂 @shigeruishiba]

G-QuAT 落成式、視察。量子コンピュータの拠点が本格稼働します。

[Savage @Savageboston]

This is literally fucking perfect

[Dan Hopkins @DHopkins9975]

@bduclaux @auditor112017 @shortseller !! One last pump to retail before he hit the door??

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

More and more breakthroughs with quantum computing …

[Dan Hopkins @DHopkins9975]

@pawcio2009 Biggest surprise to me is the lack of CRISPR companies in this list

[QuEra Computing @QueraComputing]

Our holiday gift this year from QuEra is magic 🪄 https://t.co/aSW0UP5j0R
We experimentally demonstrate magic state distillation on distance 3 and 5 logical qubits on our newly built Gemini-class neutral atom computer.

[Dan Hopkins @DHopkins9975]

@UnionSteel2017 *presented at least. I’m sure they were in the crowd.

[Dan Hopkins @DHopkins9975]

@UnionSteel2017 They haven’t attended at least for the past 2 years

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).

[Dan Hopkins @DHopkins9975]

@BiotechAnalysst Maury would know best. He’s been covering them the longest.

[Bloomberg @business]

TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife https://t.co/9PcFIMAlSQ

[QuEra Computing @QueraComputing]

Thank you Google for your vote of confidence.

Read the full release here https://t.co/CIRrHjxuR5