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dshields1

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About dshields1

Works on Quantum Computing at AWS.

Formerly BigQuery@Google and SecurityHub@AWS.

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    Thanks! I'll look into doing dynamic update. There is an API for this, I'll add some docs to the site on how to call it.

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    No. We’re still a long way from quantum computers powerful enough for that.

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    Comment #21686742

    Current quantum computers are noisy. Gates aren’t perfectly implemented. Qubits are prone to dephasing and decoherence.

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    Comment #21686125

    I like the Qiskit community textbook: https://community.qiskit.org/textbook/

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    Yes. Right now simulators tend to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate than real quantum computers.

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    That label is so long it’s breaking the HN front page layout for me on mobile.

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    > any pair of students can be swapped if they both get a more preferred school. This is the meaning of stable in the stable marriage problem. And the Gale-Shapley algorithm does th…

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    The subsidy is $1.5B for 13,000 jobs. The other half of the subsidy is for capital investment and construction expenses. It's still a huge number though.

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    Alabama. It says so near the very end.

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    Comment #13213633

    The paper says they "adjusted for patient and physician characteristics" which presumably includes the patient's sex.

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    People also speculated that this was the reason Alphabet invested in SpaceX. (Which was around the same time as that announcement) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/goog…

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    > The AI isn’t used to directly grade the papers; rather, it turns grading into an automated, highly repeatable exercise by learning to identify and group answers, and thus treat t…

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    Building 8 is the group. > (Zuck) announced the formation of a mysterious research-and-development group known as "Building 8."

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