Mar 19, 2019

Traveling quantum salesman | Quantum Computing Weekly #17

By Jesper Thomschutz • Issue #17 • View online

👋 Howdy folks!

Hope everyone has had a nice weekend and a good start to the week. This issue we’ll focus a bit on a wonderful blog post about solving the traveling salesman problem using quantum computers - cool!

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The traveling salesman problem is an NP-Complete problem which becomes very difficult for classical computers to solve, but what about quantum ones? Fortunately, Michał Stęchły wrote an excellent blog post about it and even made a demo page to test it out for finding a route between European cities. Also, the algorithm is open source!

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D-Wave 2000Q hands-on: Steep learning curve for quantum computing

Reconceptualizing a problem is the hard part, but the end is rewarding.

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Finally, Proof That Quantum Computing Can Boost Machine Learning

Even with the inherent noise from current generation quantum computers, the team was able to achieve near-perfect classification.

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Intel offers AI breakthrough in quantum computing

Intel’s senior vice president and head of Mobileye, Amnon Shashua, on Wednesday unveiled new research done with colleagues at Hebrew University that both establishes important proof for capabilities of deep learning, and also offers a way forward for computing some commonly intractable problems in quantum physics.

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Microsoft is hoping to turn the Pacific Northwest into ground zero for quantum computing

Microsoft Quantum is teaming up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington to promote the new kinds of computers.

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By Jesper Thomschutz

👋 Hi folks and welcome to Quantum Computing Weekly!

This is a newsletter about Qubits, Quantum Logic Gates, occasional mandatory cat jokes, and more.

First off, let me get this out of the way: I'm not a quantum computing expert - not a Ph.D. in anything - just a humble legacy-computer programmer with a passion to learn more about the world of quantum computing.

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