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Dec 17, 2024

First Data Center-Ready Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer Outside US Is Delivered

Posted by in categories: computing, employment, information science, quantum physics

Quantum computing and networking company IonQ has delivered a data center-ready trapped-ion quantum computer to the uptownBasel innovation campus in Arlesheim, Switzerland.

The IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer is the first of its kind to operate outside the United States and Switzerland’s first quantum computer designed for commercial use.

According to IonQ, Forte Enterprise is now online, servicing compute jobs while performing at a record algorithmic qubit count of #AQ36. The number of algorithmic qubits (#AQ) is a tool for showing how useful a quantum computer is at solving real problems for users by summarizing its ability to run benchmark quantum algorithms often used for applications.

Dec 17, 2024

IBM and State of Illinois to Build National Quantum Algorithm Center in Chicago with Universities and Industries

Posted by in categories: information science, quantum physics, supercomputing

Anchored by next-generation IBM Quantum System Two in Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, new initiative will advance useful quantum applications as industries move towards quantum-centric supercomputing.

Dec 17, 2024

A Review of Synthetic-Aperture Radar Image Formation Algorithms and Implementations: A Computational Perspective

Posted by in categories: computing, information science

A review of syntheticapertureradar image formation algorithms and implementations: a computational perspective.

✍️ Helena Cruz et al.


Designing synthetic-aperture radar image formation systems can be challenging due to the numerous options of algorithms and devices that can be used. There are many SAR image formation algorithms, such as backprojection, matched-filter, polar format, Range–Doppler and chirp scaling algorithms. Each algorithm presents its own advantages and disadvantages considering efficiency and image quality; thus, we aim to introduce some of the most common SAR image formation algorithms and compare them based on these two aspects. Depending on the requisites of each individual system and implementation, there are many device options to choose from, for instance, FPGAs, GPUs, CPUs, many-core CPUs, and microcontrollers. We present a review of the state of the art of SAR imaging systems implementations.

Dec 17, 2024

Multi-Agent Collaboration: The Future of Problem Solving with GenAI

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed extraordinary advancements in recent years, ranging from natural language processing breakthroughs to the development of sophisticated robotics. Among these innovations, multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a transformative approach for solving problems that single agents struggle to address. Multi-agent collaboration harnesses the power of interactions between autonomous entities, or “agents,” to achieve shared or individual objectives. In this article, we explore one specific and impactful technique within multi-agent collaboration: role-based collaboration enhanced by prompt engineering. This approach has proven particularly effective in practical applications, such as developing a software application.

Dec 17, 2024

Ways to Deal With Hallucinations in LLM

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Originally published on Towards AI.

One of the major challenges in using LLMs in business is that LLMs hallucinate. How can you entrust your clients to a chatbot that can go mad and tell them something inappropriate at any moment? Or how can you trust your corporate AI assistant if it makes things up randomly?

That’s a problem, especially given that an LLM can’t be fired or held accountable.

Dec 17, 2024

Glowing Plants and Silk-Coated Seeds: How MIT Is Developing the Future of Farming

Posted by in categories: chemistry, climatology, sustainability

Researchers at MIT are developing innovative agricultural technologies such as stress-signaling plants, microbial fertilizers, and protective seed coatings to adapt farming to climate change and enhance food security.

With global temperatures on the rise, agricultural practices must adapt to new challenges. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of droughts, and some land may no longer be arable. Additionally, it is becoming increasingly difficult to feed an ever-growing population without expanding the production of fertilizer and other agrochemicals, which have a large carbon footprint that is contributing to global warming.

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Dec 17, 2024

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

Posted by in category: internet

Freethink spoke to Onion staffers about parodying news from the print era into the digital age.

Dec 17, 2024

C. elegans study reveals hidden mechanism of swallowing

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A research team led by Professor Kim Kyuhyung at the Department of Brain Sciences, DGIST, has discovered a new principle that regulates how food moves through the digestive tract and is swallowed. They found that the Piezo channel proteins sense the pressure generated when food accumulates at the front of the digestive tract, triggering swallowing behavior.

This discovery is expected to provide important clues in developing treatments for digestive and eating disorders. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications.

When we eat, the digestive tract generates various signals that can be linked to important physiological processes. However, our understanding of how the movement and accumulation of food in the digestive tract are sensed and processed to regulate important behaviors like swallowing remains limited.

Dec 17, 2024

Origin Of The Genetic Code — Study

Posted by in categories: evolution, genetics

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.comDespite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform – from bacteria to blue whales – shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

Image credit: Adobe Stock – Diatomic

Taking a fresh approach at an old problem, Sawsan Wehbi, a doctoral student in the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Arizona, discovered strong evidence that the textbook version of how the universal genetic code evolved needs revision. Wehbi is the first author of a study published in the journal PNAS suggesting the order with which amino acids – the code’s building blocks – were recruited is at odds with what is widely considered the “consensus” of genetic code evolution.

Dec 17, 2024

Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

Posted by in category: particle physics

We now have a new idea of what photons look like from a model that predicts how these particles of light interact with their environment.

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