Do you like chemistry? FINALLY!

No. He's actually dead, you moron. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

you missed the point. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

While Google was the first to break the quantum supremacy barrier, the milestone is “not a single-shot achievement,” says study coauthor and quantum physicist Chao-Yang Lu of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. “It’s a continuous competition between constantly improved quantum hardware and constantly improved classical simulation.” After Google’s quantum supremacy claim, for example, IBM proposed a type of calculation that might allow a supercomputer to perform the task Google’s computer completed, at least theoretically.

Ultimately there is nothing magical about the human brain. It is simply a physical structure composed of atoms and therefore it is entirely rational to believe that at some point in the future we may be able to create an artificial version that is capable of general intelligence. With that said, current ANNs offer only a simulacrum of this kind of cognition and by Chomsky’s logic, we won’t reach this next frontier without first improving our understanding of how organic neural networks operate.

Professor Martinis said a useful quantum computer could be 20 or 30 years away, and that some physicists believe it might never happen. But if the incredible speed of quantum computing could be harnessed on scale it could open possibilities in pharmaceutical development, finance, engineering and artificial intelligence.

Professor Simmons, a former Australian of the Year, said “pretty much every Australian university” now had a quantum team in a physics, electrical engineering or maths department.

Success is measured in terms of number of photons detected. Jiuzhang, which itself is an optical circuit, detected a maximum of 76 photons in one test and an average of 43 across several tests. Its calculation time to produce the list of numbers for each experimental run was about 200 seconds, while the fastest Chinese supercomputer, TaihuLight, would have taken 2.5 billion years to arrive at the same result. That suggests the quantum computer can do GBS 100 trillion times faster than a classical supercomputer.

China claims fastest quantum computer in the world

https://www.livescience.com/china-qu...supremacy.html

Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

Using X-ray microtomography, they took 3D images of wet glass beads of similar shape and size as grains of sand. When they added liquid to dry beads, they observed liquid "capillary bridges" forming between individual beads. Adding more liquid caused the bridges to grow larger, and as that happened, the bead surfaces came into contact with more water, further increasing the binding effect. However, the increased binding effect was canceled out by a corresponding decrease of the capillary forces as the bridge structures grew bigger.

Her groundbreaking achievement won plaudits from current and former Spurs, superstars on other NBA teams, and even a future U.S. vice president.

For her part, Hammon was focused on the task at hand.

'Salute': How the basketball world reacted to Becky Hammon making history with the Spurs

https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/...mon-215009.php

First the Rooney rule. Now Pop make me proud to yell "Go Spurs GO!"

Women, sports . . .

and music. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

Concrete in some Roman piers is not only still viable today but stronger than it ever was. Its secret sauce? Seawater.

Spiders are capable of building typical webs in microgravity, so long as they have access to a light source, according to new research published in Science of Nature. In the absence of gravity, and hence a sense of up and down, a light source provides a frame of reference for the spiders.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/g...awater-043432/

Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays




portland cement is crap. lol. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

The mineral fabrics provide a geoarchaeological prototype for developing cementitious processes through low-temperature rock-fluid interactions, subsequent to an initial phase of reaction with lime that defines the activity of natural pozzolans. These processes have relevance to carbonation reactions in storage reservoirs for CO2 in pyroclastic rocks, production of alkali-activated mineral cements in maritime concretes, and regenerative cementitious resilience in waste encapsulations using natural volcanic pozzolans.

The crystals bind a vitric matrix, consolidate interfacial zones of pumiceous clasts, and fill relict pores and pumice vesicles; alkali feldspar crystal fragments partially dissolved and also produced zeolite textures (Figs. 1b–d). The authigenic minerals in alkali-rich trachytic to phonolitic Campi Flegrei deposits selected by Roman engineers for marine concrete are mainly zeolites (de Gennaro et al. 2000; Jackson 2014).

https://gizmodo.com/space-station-sp...hou-1845851520

Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity



who knew. lol. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

The orientation of spiders waiting for prey on the hub of their web in zero gravity was quite variable, whereas spiders in normal gravity always oriented themselves downwards (median < 5° from vertically downwards, Fig. 4). Closer analysis revealed that spiders in zero gravity tended to orient themselves downwards when the lights were on (median = 15° from vertically downwards) but showed no tendency to face in any particular direction when the lights were off (median near horizontally; Fig. 4). It is noteworthy that the spiders retained their previous orientation for as much as 1 h after the lights had been turned on or off, respectively (Fig. 5).