I've supervised a lot of great student projects in my nine years at MIT, but my inner nerdy teenager has never been as personally delighted by a project as it is right now. Today, I'm proud to announce that Adam Yedidia, a PhD student at MIT (but an MEng student when he did most of this work),…
There's now an open letter arguing that the world should impose a six-month moratorium on the further scaling of AI models such as GPT, by government fiat if necessary, to give AI safety and interpretability research a bit more time to catch up. The letter is signed by many of my friends and colleagues, many…
Richard Borcherds is a British mathematician at Berkeley, who won the 1998 Fields Medal for the proof of the monstrous moonshine conjecture among many other contributions. A couple months ago, Borcherds posted on YouTube a
self-described “rant” about quantum computing, which was recently making the rounds on Facebook and which I found highly entertaining.
Borcherds points out that the term “quantum supremacy” means only that quantum computers can outperform existing classical computers on
some benchmark, which can be chosen to show maximum advantage for the quantum computer. He allows that BosonSampling could have some value, for example in calibrating quantum computers or in comparing one quantum computer to another, but he decries the popular conflation of quantum supremacy with the actual construction of a scalable quantum computer able (for example) to run Shor’s algorithm to break RSA.
WYSO Joy Schwab of Beavercreek at the Protest While We Still Can! event in front of DELCO park in Kettering.
On Saturday there were two protests along Dorothy Lane Road in Dayton. Both drew honks from passing cars but the protests were for different reasons.
In front of DELCO Park in Kettering, about forty people rallied at a Protest While You Can!
Chris Welter Chalk written on the sidewalk along Dorothy Lane Road.
The protestors say the bills will stifle their ability to protest. Lynn Buffington is from Beavercreek.
“They are pretending that they are to protect against harms at protests. But all the harms that they want to protect against are already illegal, she said. This is all just an effort to discourage and deter people from protesting.”
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