Saturday, September 28, 2019

Mentimeter: Create interactive presentations, workshops, and meetings

  September 28, 2019    Nikhil Verma

Recently on an Industry conference, the presenters used Mentimeter to interact with the audience through polls and Q&A. It is a great tool that feeds the audience response straight into interesting charts and graph on the projected screen, in real time.

Amazing tool to enrich your presentation with real time feedback.
https://www.mentimeter.com

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

  September 28, 2019    Nikhil Verma

A team of researchers at Harvard University recently developed a quantum circuit-based algorithm inspired by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In their paper, published in Nature Physics, the researchers outlined this new architecture and evaluated its accuracy in recognizing quantum states associated with a 1-D, symmetry-protected topological phase. Note that existing quantum simulators are quite small, thus they are unable to support a large-scale CNNs and other machine learning techniques that are being used in conventional computers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0648-8
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-quantum-convolutional-neural-networks.html
https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/987

Google achieves Quantum Supremacy

  September 28, 2019    Nikhil Verma

In a research paper first seen by the Financial Times, Google seems to claim that it achieved its long-proposed goal of “quantum supremacy.” This marks a major milestone in quantum computing, and it begins the era in which quantum computers can start out-performing classical supercomputers for various applications.

The idea that quantum computers could efficiently solve a computation that a classical computer can only solve inefficiently, is known as Quantum Supremacy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/09/27/has-google-actually-achieved-quantum-supremacy-with-its-new-quantum-computer
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-quantum-supremacy-encryption-safe,40489.html

Forbes' AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies

  September 28, 2019    Nikhil Verma

Forbes and Meritech Capital have put together a list of 50 private, U.S.-based companies that are wielding some subset of artificial intelligence in a meaningful way and demonstrating real business potential from doing so.

Most of the 50 hail from traditional tech centers like Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston. The list spans categories like human resources, security, insurance, and finance, healthcare, transportation, and infrastructure. Cumulatively, the startups are flush with cash–unsurprising, given that startups touting AI received a record $7.4 billion in funding in just the second quarter of 2019, according to CBInsights. span categories like human resources, security, insurance, and finance, with healthcare, transportation, and infrastructure

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jilliandonfro/2019/09/17/ai-50-americas-most-promising-artificial-intelligence-companies

Gartner's Hype-cycle for Blockchain business 2019

  September 28, 2019    Nikhil Verma

Gartner published the Blockchain hype cycle for 2019. Blockchain hype around insurance, supply chain solutions, logistics are at the peak. Crypto-currency, ICOs have become common place. The business impact of blockchain will be transformational across most industries within five to 10 years.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-09-12-gartner-2019-hype-cycle-for-blockchain-business-shows




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