A friend of mine shared a link recently in LinkedIn of the news about QuEra’s 256-qubit quantum computer and this attracted my attention. It is true that nowadays we mostly follow the progress of superconducting qubits, trapped ions or photonic systems, so cold atoms is not something I was familiar about. But this technology made some promising advances, and reading a couple of research papers was enough to realize that cold atoms have some compelling advantages.
Digital Silk Road
I followed recently a talk about European-Chinese economic collaboration and the state of BRI, which made me become aware of the Digital Silk Road.
IBM Global Qiskit Summer School 2021
In July this year, IBM organized their already traditional Qiskit Summer School, and I was lucky enough to be able to register and follow.
Qiskit is a programming framework for coding quantum algorithms on IBM quantum computers. It is developed and maintained not only by IBM developers, but also a large community of external developers and Qiskit Advocates (to which I also belong). Qiskit summer school this year (GQSS21) was focused on quantum machine learning, a very exciting field at the intersection between quantum computing and machine learning. During two weeks, we learned about topics like:
AI Graduate Certificate
Finally I completed AI Graduate Certificate program at Stanford University and obtained this pretigious certificate in artificial intelligence. It was quite intensive and difficult, and several times I considered giving up. My math skills were quite rusty, I didn’t have enough time taking into account my full-time work and family obligations, but in the end I’ve managed it!
Covid-19 – One Year Later
26th of February. I’ll remember this date for long time. Not only because it is a birthday of one of my best friends, but because of how the pandemic began in Switzerland exactly one year ago. Continue reading “Covid-19 – One Year Later”
Overview of Quantum Computing
I gave a talk at Quantum Serbia meetup organized in January 2021. I wanted to help those interested in this field of quantum computing understand what it is about and, as IBM Quantum Ambassador, provide the perspective on how IBM sees the evolution and the opportunities this technology will bring.
Here is the recording to the video available in YouTube:
Applied AI : From dreams to reality
An interesting conference last evening in Geneva on applied AI, which confirmed my perception that we are no longer in the times of spectacular news, like winning different games against human players, but that we are talking now of challenges of practical implementations. A couple of insights:
Understanding Quantum Computing
What are quantum computers, how do they work and what they can do that the classical computers can’t? In this post I want to explain some of the most important facts about quantum computing, so if you are interested in this hot topic, please read further.
Tesla Model 3
Last month I had opportunity to drive some of the latest Mercedes models of different types through a rent-a-car agency. And they are very good to drive. But comparing with Tesla, not at the same level of experience.
Here is the list of my reasons to purchase one such full-electric car.
Gender Equality
I was reading this report from IBM Institute for Business value titled ‘Women, Leadership and the Priority Paradox‘ and it just came to my mind : how obvious and commonsensical this actually is.
Everybody should agree that intelligence is equally distributed among two genders. At least all of us could see that in the primary and secondary schools, where boys and girls are both able to understand math, learn languages, science and arts. Still, later in life, in the western and most of modern societies, men have more power and money and women less of it. Maybe you would say : “Men earn money to bring home and women decide how to spend it”. But who decides within these companies and governments how to spend money ? Following the same logic, then shouldn’t it be the women ?