@weig2000 thanks for the compliment bro
I'm fortunate though to have a good French Teacher named Google.
News on China's scientific and technological development.
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I'm fortunate though to have a good French Teacher named Google.
If you look at HK university student and professor names/graduated schools they are integrated with mainland talent pool, but Taiwan isn't.
That's a long way for your country from the days of Salamanca Academy, Pedro de Medina and such.
Ming and Hapsburg were long gone, but the contrast in the staying power of Chinese and Spaniards in modern science and technology is quite stark.
Not a quantum computer scientist, haha, but this is extremely significant news.
If I understand what they are saying about this quantum computer stuff correctly, then they are there or right there on the line of completing a full operational and programmable quantum computer.
What is being talked about here is fidelity or error correction.
So that is it. That photonic quantum computer has error correction, aka high fidelity.
That super conducting quantum computer people are working on (the frozen apparatus), is seriously behind now.
Just imagine the kind of sanctions the United States will hit China with when they start building this quantum computer will error correction, which is another big step forward.
Some more reading about this quantum thingy.
As for Spain's history... they were never a key player in the scientific revolution/enlightenment.
The above chart is from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment. Italy was a central player but Spain was on the periphery. I never understood why they underperformed Italians so much in science, arts, technology etc. They industrialised much later than Italy, even today they are poorer. But I suppose that's another topic for another thread
China/World biggest solar farm in Gobi dessert.
Genociding the desert, one step at a time.
That google paper was always on shaky ground. People back then believed that with some better algorithms it didn't need a quantum computer to solve. And I think that was what the Chinese team did was create a compression code that made it solvable with non-quantum computing. Which proves that a better algorithm solves that problem.
Not quite quantum computing or supercomputing achievements, definitely a breakthrough in high-level math and coding.