Links for 2023-12-08
DARPA, Harvard, QuEra, MIT, and the NIST/University of Maryland Usher in New Era of Quantum Computing by Performing Complex, Error-Corrected Quantum Algorithms on 48 Logical Qubits https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-12-06
IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03854-1
IBM Is Planning to Build Its First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2029 https://singularityhub.com/2023/12/06/ibm-is-planning-to-build-its-first-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-by-2029/
A new quantum algorithm for classical mechanics with an exponential speedup https://blog.research.google/2023/12/a-new-quantum-algorithm-for-classical.html
AMD’s Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip — The MI300 makes 13 pieces of silicon behave as one chip https://spectrum.ieee.org/amd-mi300
AMD Is The Undisputed Datacenter GPU Performance Champ – For Now https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/06/amd-is-the-undisputed-datacenter-gpu-performance-champ-for-now/
Photonics Team Develops High-Performance Ultrafast Lasers That Fit on a Fingertip https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/headlines/2023/11/photonics-team-develops-high-performance-ultrafast-lasers-that-fit-on-a-fingertip/
Dolphins: Multimodal Language Model for Driving https://vlm-driver.github.io/
Instruction-tuning Aligns LLMs to the Human Brain https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00575
“There’s a common misconception that the reason Chess was solved in 1997 but Go wasn’t solved till 2016 was because Go had a bigger “search space”. But this is false. From a practical perspective, both search spaces are infinite.” https://twitter.com/kartographien/status/1731646893162139685
ImageDream: Image-Prompt Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02201
The Baby Boom: Lessons and Patterns https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-baby-boom
Political links:
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) provided indirectly 330,000 artillery shells (155mm) to Ukraine, making it a larger supplier for this kind ammunition than all European nations combined. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2023/12/501_364468.html
Ukrainian and U.S. officials signed a statement of intent on the co-production of critical weapons and data exchange between the two countries "to address the urgent needs of Ukraine's armed forces," the Pentagon reported. https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-sign-statement-of-intent-on-co-production-of-weapons/