Weekly Tech Thread - ~2025.2.19
Something Old:
Something New:
Majorana 1 Chip (very tasteful design)
Something Borrowed:
NASA's 10 Rules of Software Development (with commentary) (h/t /r/programming)
Something Blue
Something Old:
Something New:
Majorana 1 Chip (very tasteful design)
Something Borrowed:
NASA's 10 Rules of Software Development (with commentary) (h/t /r/programming)
Something Blue
I met the Microsoft researcher who built what was claimed to be the world's best quantum computer simulator using F# over 10 years ago. He had successfully emulated some simple molecules no one else had using the simulator and published several papers.
I'm acquainted with the MS researcher who created the Q# quantum programming language (derived from F#). Six or so years ago when I last met with him he was working on MS's quantum computer and was expecting a breakthrough "any day now".
I have a good enough lay person's understanding of quantum computing, and press releases and popular accounts never cease to frustrate me. The only thing that matters is "how many logical qubits do you really have?" That topic is almost never covered.
Q# looks really interesting. I played with it during a public release a few years ago.
(That was me.)
I read Society of Mind about 20 years ago and have it on the shelf. At the time I thought Minsky had outlined a good approach to working towards "AI".
I haven't kept up with the internals of AI since then. I wonder how much modern LLMs and machine reasoning end up implementing his building blocks approach in a roundabout fashion.