Four short links: 8 July 2013
QCL: A Language for Quantum Computing — QCL is a high level, architecture independent programming language for quantum computers, with a syntax derived from classical procedural languages like C or...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 July 2013
Autonomous Intersection Management Project — a scalable, safe, and efficient multiagent framework for managing autonomous vehicles at intersections. (via How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities)...
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Podcast: quantum computing with Pete Worden and Bob Lee
Hangar One at Moffett Field, built for the US Navy’s early dirigible program. Photo via Wikipedia. At Sci Foo Camp a few weeks ago we recorded a conversation with Pete Worden, director of NASA’s Ames...
View ArticleFour short links: 17 October 2014
Time to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Everything (Gizmodo) — instructions for enabling 2fa on Google, Facebook, and other common consumer Internet services. (via BoingBoing) Project Naptha —...
View ArticleFour short links: 3 February 2015
Frog Design Predictions (Wired) — designers pick product trends, arrayed from probable to speculative. Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (Joel Spolsky) — This makes mistakes even more visible. Your eyes...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 May 2015
Silicon Valley Primer — a short but interesting precis of what made the Valley great, with stories of the nobility. From a historian. All these new people pouring into what had been an agricultural...
View ArticleFour short links: 3 November 2015
Australians Invent Architecture for Full-Scale Quantum Computer (IEEE) — still research paper, so I’ll believe it when it can glitch Hangouts just like a real computer. How Big is the Gig Economy?...
View ArticleFour short links: 17 March 2016
Algorithm Identifies Tweets Sent Under the Influence of Alcohol (MIT TR) — notable for how they determined whether a Tweet was sent from home. They made a list of phrases like “home at last!” and had...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 March 2016
Deep Learning for Analytical Engine — This repository contains an implementation of a convolutional neural network as a program for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, capable of recognizing...
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