Abraham Asfaw

Obsessed with #QEC & reaching FTQC? 🙋‍♀️ Us too! But something else is brewing at Riverlane...

As quantum computers scale, there's a problem...

Not enough software! 💻 That's why we're building an amazing team with Liz Durst (ex Qiskit) & TWO new folks! 🎉

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linkedin dark pattern: launch a new "regroup" of notification settings, and enable all of them by default including the ones you turned off in the past

I agree! But I would argue Encarta didn't know how to do things, just contained a number of curated articles on a list of selected topics. It feels like these new models are somewhere else on the tradeoff between accuracy and getting a first draft out quickly.

Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!! YOU REMEMBER!!!

Encarta - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta for anyone curious about what Encarta looked like

5/5
My childhood excitement to see next year's Encarta and whatever new knowledge it included is now replaced by a fascination to see what the next models will enable.

4/5
Today, I can run a 70 GB model locally and still have that kind of access to the world's knowledge without need for internet. What a fascinating time to be alive. It's amazing that all of Encarta can be "replaced" by a bunch of model weights.

3/5
At the time, a home computer was 1-10 GB HDD and 256/512 MB RAM. Encarta was slow, but it contained the world of information in multiple discs. Without internet access, it gave access to all the knowledge of the world.

2/5
You would search "Ethiopia" and read an article about it, and then when you search "vacuum tubes" - it would say "insert CD 3" and then you'd read that article. A whole new world of learning. It felt like you could learn about anything.

1/5
When I was a little kid first starting to use computers (with very little internet access), the computers were interesting but v boring in retrospect. One of the gems was a 5 or 6 CD program called Encarta encyclopedia that contained basically "everything" about the world.

Today is Ethiopian Christmas, my favorite holiday of the year. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate today!

lol just replied there and then saw this. here's to 2025 and more quantum in things...

i'm so sorry for what i'm about to expose you to but here you go. "quantum rng chip"

On the other platform, immigration is the hot topic. On this one, my feed looks like a mix of "in a promising new research avenue, quantum computers will be used to test the quantumness of consciousness" and "the new samsung galaxy will be quantum"

I think the argument is tight packing in the grout area -> less air flow -> larger heat capacity -> longer time to melt compared to ground level where there is less tight packing.

Agree, this is the way with overleaf. I'm personally too married to my local vim latex workflow

one that I remember most:

\begin{itemize}
\item stuff
\end{itemize}
\\stuffafteritemize % attempt to put a new line after itemize

will work on overleaf

My experience with overleaf: it lets you compile even when there are blatant errors in your tex. That's risky because on a day like today, if you try to compile locally it won't work. When the collaborative features are not needed, I don't see the point of using it compared with a local installation

i'm sorry for both of us enduring this movie!

And that it will make AI way faster... to the point of autonomous fighter jets

Yes please!

I've got one more for you. They said "there's no blood in those quantum veins" about saving the plane from a predicament

Movie I'm watching now, cast talking about a new special fighter jet. Pilot:

"I know a little bit about this. It's quantum processin', right?"

Tech guy:

"Yeah, it's the first tested application. Ten terabits a second."

And then they just move on...

You got this! Thanks for bringing the great stories of quantum to light :)

testing the #quantumsky hashtag by recommending that people listen to the quantum era podcast

i think quantum people may be moving here en masse this time...

hello (quantum) world!