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Лед и лето
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NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail
A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint entitled The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware was Built to Lose. Here’s the abstract:
With a single clear exception, every NISQ-era flagship demonstration of ‘quantum advantage’ has, within eighteen months of its announcement, been classically reproduced, shown to rest on classically tractable structure, or closed by a simulability theorem. Six theoretical results from 2024 through April 2026 explain the pattern: the regions of circuit-space NISQ hardware can run with sufficient fidelity coincide with the regions classical algorithms compress efficiently, because the features that...
Сады и цветы
Удивляюсь количеству фестивалей в Москве, есть еще оказывается...
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Турако
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ИГРУНКАЖОФФРУА
Решила сделать перерыв в поездках по небольшим историческим...
Held Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs)
Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first job is to serve on the selection committee for the prestigious Michael and Sheila Held Prize in combinatorial and discrete optimization and related areas. The committee chair, my former MIT colleague Madhu Sudan (now at Harvard), invited me to share the following message here on Shtetl-Optimized. (I’d add: put in the effort to nominate someone, and you can actually influence how things go!)
Dear Colleagues
I am writing to seek nominations for the 2027 Michael and Sheila Held Prize. The scope of the prize and...
Announcing BQP Partners: my and my brother’s new angel-investing venture
As I’ve written before, these past couple years I’ve often felt like the last remaining person in either quantum computing or AI who lacked a stake in some startup company whose valuation is right now shooting into interstellar space. My academic colleagues, including the ones who seemed the most singleminded about quantum oracle separations and other gloriously useless pursuits? One by one, like in a zombie movie, I learn that they too have now launched startups, and invariably raised tens of millions of dollars, for the sorts of ideas we might’ve idly traded at coffee breaks back...