This 88-minute talk by Andrew Helwer, Microsoft, discards hand-wavy pop-science metaphors and answers a simple question: from a computer science perspective, how can a quantum computer outperform a classical computer? Viewers will learn the following: – Representing computation with basic linear algebra (matrices and vectors) – The computational workings of qbits, superposition, and quantum logic …
The Crypto Invest Summit 2018 in Los Angeles had about 30 presentations or panel discussions. Some of the talks and panels were: Legal and Regulatory Overview, Marketing of ICO, Security vs Utility Tokens and much more. Securitize.io gave a talk on security tokens Securitize is a turnkey, white-label solution for the tokenization of securities issued …
Tim Draper was one of the speakers at the Crypto Invest Summit in Los Angeles on May 1, 2018. He and Adam Draper spoke about Why Getting in Early Matters. Tim Draper has described how invests in companies and people that will create a movement. He wants people who can change things and leverage large …
The Firmo protocol executes financial contracts on blockchain technology. Contracts are written using the domain specific language; FirmoLang. FirmoLang provides a secure execution environment for financial contracts on decentralized asset-classes. Similar to software built for airplane coordination, FirmoLang is formally verified, yielding needed security benefits for smart contracts in finance. FirmoLang compiles directly to Ethereum …
Aubrey de Grey present a family of finite unit-distance graphs in the plane that are not 4-colorable, thereby improving the lower bound of the HadwigerNelson problem. The smallest such graph that we have so far discovered has 15671585 vertices. Scott Aaronson has been following the work and confirms that it has been independently validated. This …
Blockchain can provide vastly improved efficiency to all financial systems and other industries. Blockchain can make transactions instantaneous, in-Sync, and transparent. Currently stock, bonds, options and futures trading have several days for settlement of transactions. The current system can have contradictory transactions, confusion, complexity which can result in complicated legal proceedings. Investors may have thought …
The breaking of Nazi Germany codes shortened WW2 by about two years. The plugboard had most of the mathematical complexity. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends …
Ray Kurzweil gives an MIT course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video does not show any slides. This class is free and open to everyone. The goal is to take an engineering approach to exploring possible paths toward building human-level intelligence for a better world. …
Bitcoin was Blockchain 1.0 and the decentralized Ethereum is Blockchain 2.0 and Blockchain 3.0 could be Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG). In mathematics and computer science, a directed acyclic graph, is a finite directed graph with no directed cycles. It consists of finitely many vertices and edges, with each edge directed from one vertex to another, …
Nature – Scientists have used the mathematics of topological physics to produce a high-quality beam of laser light — a step that could lead to the first practical application of this burgeoning field. A team of physicists describes its device, and the theory behind the technology. The demonstration “brings topological photonics substantially closer to real …
The sixth annual Breakthrough prize awards gave seven $3 million prizes 2018 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences Awarded to Joanne Chory, Don W. Cleveland, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, and Peter Walter. 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David N. Spergel, and the WMAP …