All posts by kjoo

17Aug/22

Privacy and Secrecy is not written in CAPITAL LETTERS everywhere

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Privacy and #Secrecy is not written in CAPITAL LETTERS everywhere. It makes me think a bit (no, actually quite a bit) when an online bank transfer to an Austrian authority uses the social security number plus date of birth as payment reference. 😱

Yes sure it’s easy and simple for identification, but this payment reference now goes from my bank to the destination bank and with maybe some manual clearings in between.… Read more » “Privacy and Secrecy is not written in CAPITAL LETTERS everywhere”

16Aug/22

First kitty steps with DALL-E

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I am sure that most of the readers know about artificial intelligence. And also about the advances that have been achieved after the long AI winter. And one of the most amazing (from my point of view) was the release of GPT-3 of openai. Absolutely fantastic what the an AI can produce. But, and this is a huge “But”, this is nothing compared to DALL-E, which is basically the an AI-powered arts machine.… Read more » “First kitty steps with DALL-E”

10Aug/22

Google’s quantum supremacy debunked?

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“As explained by Science, to replicate the performance of Sycamore, the scientists first had to reconfigure the problem as a 3D mathematical array called a tensor network. This meant they could use the system’s GPUs to perform calculations in parallel.

The low level of accuracy of Sycamore’s computation gave the Chinese team additional room for manoeuvre.… Read more » “Google’s quantum supremacy debunked?”

08Aug/22

Application Scenarios for the Quantum Internet

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Are you aware of the applicability of #quantumtechnology to #internet and #networking⁉️ “The Quantum Internet has the potential to improve application functionality by incorporating quantum information technology into the infrastructure of the overall Internet.”

IETF and Chonggang Wang, IEEE Fellow, Akbar Rahman, Ruidong Li, Melchior Aelmans, Kaushik Chakraborty collected many use-cases and where #quantuminternet can improve existing applications or solve problems that were unsolvable so far.… Read more » “Application Scenarios for the Quantum Internet”