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Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by swebs »

trekrich wrote: post #73
Hasnep wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but you don't need to trust the media to hear a lot of these things come out of his own mouth.

i never hear any of his speeches live, i only catch the clips that the news shows you. So how accurate is their reporting? Are they pushing an agenda, taking comments speeches out of context? Both sides do it to their advantage.

Not even the state of the union addresses? You can read the transcripts. They're not that long

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by _8091149529 »

Title of the post is misleading: The newly-funded centers will address three different topics in the field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).

Quantum computing (the integer-factoring kind) is the focus of only the UC Berkeley-led consortium. This effort accounts for 1/3 of the announced funding.

The other two centers will work on Quantum networking (UIUC) and Quantum sensing (U Colorado).

Original NSF announcement:

https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/announcements/07212...

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by [deleted] »

rsynnott wrote: post #75
trekrich wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so close to admitting trump has done something decent!

It’s a peculiarity of the US system that decisions by the federal bureaucracy tend to be attributed to one person. You can be relatively confident that Donald Trump has no idea what a quantum computer is.

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Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by Alupis »

take_a_breath wrote: post #101
johndevor wrote: post #89

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> the violence The left certainly is committing more acts of violence and riots than the right. 4 people murdered in the ultra-left zone, the Chaz in 2 weeks. Scores murdered in Democrat-led cities across America (Baltimore, Chicago, etc.). Murders on the rise in NYC. Large group of officers attacked in Grant Park in chicago by a mob. Somehow that's Trump's fault?

I feel honored that my city has been chosen as one of the beta sites for the new Gestapo. I’m surprised the right is so welcoming of unmarked, unnamed federal agents but surely the plan is for this all to end well. It’s definitely not meant to distract from the 140,000 dead (and rising) or the massive ongoing recession or his friend on trial for sex trafficking.

> I feel honored that my city has been chosen as one of the beta sites for the new Gestapo

Checks out. Bring in the Gestapo to put and end to the Brown Shirts roaming the streets, vandalizing and destroying property, assaulting anyone who stands in their way.

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by non-entity »

_8091149529 wrote: post #112

Title of the post is misleading: The newly-funded centers will address three different topics in the field of Quantum Information Science (QIS). Quantum computing (the integer-factoring kind) is the focus of only the UC Berkeley-led consortium. This effort accounts for 1/3 of the announced funding. The other two centers will work on Quantum networking (UIUC) and Quantum sensing (U Colorado). Original NSF announcement…

> Quantum networking

Any recommended reading materials on this?

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by pchristensen »

fooker wrote: post #76
rsynnott wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a peculiarity of the US system that decisions by the federal bureaucracy tend to be attributed to one person. You can be relatively confident that Donald Trump has no idea what a quantum computer is.

Do you also consider it a peculiarity that all failures of the federal government are attributed to the president? Example: "Trump sent militia to Portland to put protesters into unmarked vans.". Or is this attribution a worry only when something good happens?

Well, he has talked on Twitter about sending federal forces to Portland, so...

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by hello_1234 »

Cue the closeted trump supporters finally coming out in hordes to pat themselves in the back. It's very likely the white house approved it not for science but more for "national security". Wouldn't it be great if someone can combine "climate science" together with "national security" to get some much needed funding for climate research.

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by take_a_breath »

Alupis wrote: post #114
take_a_breath wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel honored that my city has been chosen as one of the beta sites for the new Gestapo. I’m surprised the right is so welcoming of unmarked, unnamed federal agents but surely the plan is for this all to end well. It’s definitely not meant to distract from the 140,000 dead (and rising) or the massive ongoing recession or his friend on trial for sex trafficking.

> I feel honored that my city has been chosen as one of the beta sites for the new Gestapo Checks out. Bring in the Gestapo to put and end to the Brown Shirts roaming the streets, vandalizing and destroying property, assaulting anyone who stands in their way.

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Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by non-entity »

take_a_breath wrote: post #118
Alupis wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I feel honored that my city has been chosen as one of the beta sites for the new Gestapo Checks out. Bring in the Gestapo to put and end to the Brown Shirts roaming the streets, vandalizing and destroying property, assaulting anyone who stands in their way.

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> This month, an Air Force sergeant, who prosecutors claim has ties to boogaloo

This is just so weird to me. People will claim to be radically anti-government, etc. but also act incredibly nationalist or in the case, join a branch of the state military. Although, I understand a lot of people change their views during their service (I know a ton of anarchists who were former military).

Re: Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

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Post by tlackemann »

ahelwer wrote: post #54
dr_dshiv wrote: post #31

Someone needs to invest in developing improved mental models for quantum computers. Much of the development of classical computing (particular from a user perspective) was driven by metaphors: memory, stacks, pipes, files, folders, etc. What are useful metaphors in the application or use of quantum computers?

Quantum computers are modeled with extremely basic linear algebra. Quantum states are vectors and gates are matrices which multiply those vectors to get new vectors. How much simpler do you want? You can explain most of it as rotations around the unit circle which we all learn in high school or earlier. The problem is pop science crap that tries to explain superposition and entanglement with complete word salad inste…

This was a great explanation, thanks for the breakdown
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