Antoine Perdaens

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[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@xdamman it’s the idea of progressive taxes and « quotité exemptée » no?

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

SpaceX Unveils Insane New Product

*** thanks to @DavidCarbutt_ and team for the edit.

[Fabien Penso @fabienpenso]

https://t.co/hs1l1W7mlN

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@seynaeve avec la clim à 17° ;)

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@xdamman caps are so 2024!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

“What a dick!” – Harry Bōlz

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The Origins of Wokeness: https://t.co/jvOj5AyYT5

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things.

They say they did a computation on a ca 100 qubit chip much faster than a conventional (super)computer could do. The particular calculation in question is to produce a random distribution. The result of this calculation has no practical use.

They use this particular problem because it has been formally proven (with some technical caveats) that the calculation is difficult to do on a conventional computer (because it uses a lot of entanglement). That also allows them to say things like "this would have taken a septillion years on a conventional computer" etc.

It's exactly the same calculation that they did in 2019 on a ca 50 qubit chip. In case you didn't follow that, Google's 2019 quantum supremacy claim was questioned by IBM pretty much as soon as the claim was made and a few years later a group said they did it on a conventional computer in a similar time.

So while the announcement is super impressive from a scientific pov and all, the consequences for everyday life are zero. Estimates say that we will need about 1 million qubits for practically useful applications and we're still about 1 million qubits away from that.

Also, it's been a recurring story that we have seen numerous times in the past years, that claims of quantum "utility" or quantum "advantage" or quantum "supremacy" or whatever you want to call it later evaporate because some other group finds a clever way to do it on a conventional computer after all.

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@vinchbat @xdamman still need a few million qubits more … but yeah

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@xdamman @citizenwallet don’t forget apple was never the first ;)

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@jeremyphoward @cgarciae88 I wonder if someone will do something like https://t.co/s8k1zQCWMV with FastHTML

[Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza]

Apple Store is up and running and looks like you can get an Apple Mac picked up same day or delivered by Monday.

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@bduperrin we actually had a nice conversation this week with @absolutesubzero @bjoern_n @rawn luis suarez and more

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@natfriedman You mean like lead poisoning with the Roman ?

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@LinusEkenstam @xdamman there you go

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@loran @free ça reste plus simple qu’une fiche de paye belge ;)

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@vinchbat @TheLilyCroft on peut répondre avec un temps négatif ?

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@leen_schelfhout ;-(

[Antoine Perdaens @tlg]

@bnox Wordle 1,004 6/6

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