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Black holes have been a mainstay of astrophysics and a puzzle within quantum mechanics for decades. Some researchers have proposed the existence of "white holes" as their opposite, but it's hard to posit how they would work.

Here's an interesting writeup of a new paper proposing how (it avoids the white hole term though): popularmechanics.com/space/dee

Preprint available here: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gat

Popular Mechanics · A Scientist Thinks the Universe Bounced Out of a Black HoleBy Darren Orf

"But Scott, what actually useful stuff could we do with #quantum computers?”
“How about optimized breast cancer diagnoses?”

nature.com/articles/s41598-025

NatureOptimized breast cancer diagnosis using self-adaptive quantum metaheuristic feature selection - Scientific ReportsBreast cancer is a leading cause of mortality among women and is increasing rapidly around the world. For early diagnosis of breast cancer, precise classification, and finding the best subset for cancer identification, evolutionary-based feature selection methods play a vital role in effective treatment. Previous studies have shown that existing evolutionary methods are complicated in correctly differentiating BC disease subtypes with high consistency, which seriously affects the performance of classification methods. To prevent diagnostic errors with hostile implications for patient health, in this study, we develop a new evolutionary method called SeQTLBOGA that incorporates the learner quantization before the search capability of the feature space to prevent premature falls into the local optima. In the SeQTLBOGA algorithm, quantum theory and a self-adaptive mechanism are employed to update the Teaching Learning-based Optimization (TLBO) rule to enhance convergence search capabilities. Most importantly, a self-adaptive genetic algorithm (GA) is also incorporated into TLBO to tradeoff between exploration and exploitation to handle slow convergence and exploitation competence, and simultaneously optimizing parameters of support vector machines (SVM) and the best features subset is our primary objective. Comparative results based on optimal computing time and performance are also offered to empirically analyze the traditional algorithms. Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate the most recent quantum-inspired metaheuristic algorithms in WBCD and WDBC databases, emphasizing their advantages and disadvantages.
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Now we have a press release from Toshiba and Orange announcing the world’s first commercial #quantum safe network offering, combining #QKD and #PQC. Haven’t been able to read the tech specs yet but it’s now available in the Paris metro area, and already has a financial services customer.

The pace of innovation in this space is constantly accelerating.

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orange-business.com/en/press/o

Orange BusinessOrange Quantum Defender: Cybersecurity in FranceOrange and Toshiba launch Quantum Defender, a secure quantum network in Paris, protecting sensitive data against future quantum computing cyber threats.

I know this is super cool #quantum based science with biomedical applications... but "We used a special black box to capture invisible #light that living mice emit but dead ones don't" feels a bit witchcrafty.
What is imaged, BTW, and why it is really cool, is the tiny amount of photons that are emitted by #electrons changing their energy state due to biological interactions.
There are some really interesting applications for something like this, sci-fi stuff.

Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/

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“In fact, from what we have seen, IBM is the only quantum computing organization in the world that will be capable of running quantum programs at the scale of hundreds of logical qubits and millions of quantum gates by the end of the decade.”

That's quite the gauntlet they've thrown down there. #quantum

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“Additionally, we’re releasing a second paper that details the first-ever accurate, fast, compact, and flexible error correction decoder — one that is amenable to efficient implementation on FPGAs or ASICs for real-time decoding.”

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“By 2029, we will deliver IBM Quantum Starling — a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of running quantum circuits comprising 100 million quantum gates on 200 logical qubits. We are building this system at our historic facility in Poughkeepsie, New York.”

This is remarkably specific and remarkably near-term. #quantum

as of yesterday, IBM is out with two new research papers and an update to their chip roadmap, all driving towards a large-scale, fault-tolerant #quantum computer by 2029

(Will it run Shor's algorithm and factor RSA in a reasonable timeframe? TBD)

ibm.com/quantum/blog/large-sca

IBM Quantum Safe brand visualization
www.ibm.comIBM lays out clear path to fault-tolerant quantum computing | IBM Quantum Computing BlogIBM has developed a detailed framework for achieving large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029, and we’re updating our roadmap to match. 

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#jobad #quantum #quantumcomputing #qec #quantinuum
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jobs.eu.lever.coQuantinuum - Research Software Engineer - Quantum Error CorrectionQuantinuum are hiring a research software engineer to work on compilation of fault-tolerant quantum software for the next generation of quantum computers. Quantum software relies on quantum error correction to work. However, quantum software engineers don’t want to think about error correction: they want the compiler do it for them. So we’re upgrading our TKET compiler do this, and we’re looking for help. As part of our Cambridge-based compiler team, you will contribute to our quantum compilation toolchain, with a focus on how implementing fault-tolerant protocols in the compiler. You’ll stay informed about the latest research on quantum error correction codes, fault-tolerant circuit design, and quantum compilation methods, as well as conducting original research of your own. You’ll work with scientists and engineers from all across Quantinuum to integrate all of our expertise into high-quality software for our team, and our customers. If you are excited by possibilities of quantum