kevinventullo

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Comment · 16 days ago
Abstract: "Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a universal gate set, but the necessary non-Clifford gates represent a significant resource cost for most quantum error correction architectures. Magic state cultivation offers an efficient alternative to resource-intensive distillation protocols; however, testing the proposal’s assumptions represents a challenging departure from quantum memory experiments. We present an experimental study of magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor. We implement cultivation, including code-switching into a surface code, and develop a fault-tolerant measurement protocol to bound the magic state fidelity. Cultivation reduces the error by a factor of 40, with a state fidelity of at least 0.9999(1) (retaining 8% of attempts). Our results experimentally establish magic state cultivation as a viable solution to one of quantum computing’s most important challenges."
Comment · 1 year ago
I thought charter schools and public schools received the same $/student.
Comment · 1 year ago
What’s funny is the jerky animation actually communicates so much more than the smooth animation.
Comment · 1 year ago
I attended high school in the US in the early 00’s and cell phones were absolutely banned from classrooms. You could keep them in your locker and use them between classes, but that was it.

I attended college in the late 00’s, and I don’t think I took a single digital exam. Quizzes, sure, but for final exams even CS was pencil and paper (or a final project, which admittedly will have issues in the post-LLM era).

Comment · 1 year ago
FWIW there is a new-ish kind of intermediate genre between classic LAN/ranked multiplayer and single player, which is the whole “survival” genre. Generally speaking, they can be played as single player games, but also allow for small-scale co-op, synchronously or asynchronously. So even if you and a buddy have different schedules, you can make progress separately but still occasionally play together.

Valheim, Grounded, Ark, Satisfactory are a few among many others.

Comment · 1 year ago
Basically anything that requires a massively parallel computation on undeterminable states that are only clear in hindsight.

From https://scottaaronson.blog/ :

“If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel.”

Comment · 1 year ago
What’s the best choice of free desktop PDF Viewer/Editor these days (any OS)?

On Windows I’ve been using PDF-XChange for a decade or so now, but curious if better alternatives have cropped up.

Comment · 1 year ago
“Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos”
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s a fair point. But it greatly limits the scope of human-introduced error. I think already for FLT, the surface area for error in the kernel and in axiom translation is substantially smaller than the entirety of the literature which Wiles’s proof recursively depends on.
Comment · 1 year ago
You need at least 45 guesses since 2^44 < 16!

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