Back in October 2018, D-Wave launched a cloud service to provide everyone access to their 2000+ qubit quantum computer. Now, they are releasing the D-Wave Leap quantum coding challenge to encourage people to use their cloud service and teach. Though no math or physics degree is required, there are some terms and concepts that would be helpful for you to complete the challenge and fully understand why these are interesting problems to ...
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This week, I'm featured in Quantum Computing Weekly! Jesper Thomschutz's newsletter shares the latest news on quantum computing. Now it has a new section, profiling researchers and practitioners in the quantum space. I'm excited to share a little more of my story! I talked about what I find most exciting about the potential benefits quantum computers could bring to the world, and how I got into the field originally. Check out Issue #6 of Quantum ...
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Thanks so much for the response on my blog post - Convolutional Neural Network for Classifying Yoga Poses. I've enjoyed hearing about your ideas take the project further. A lot of you reached out to ask me about my data set and if I could post it. Here it is! This post contains the data set for the convolutional neural network yoga post classifier. Thanks for sharing what you've learned from my ...
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News from Bleximo! Today, we're happy to announce the close of Bleximo's $1.5mm seed round, led by Eniac Ventures, with participation from Boost VC, Creative Ventures, KEC Ventures, and Gyan Kapur. Bleximo combines classical computers and Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) application-specific quantum accelerators to solve problems that are difficult to solve, even with a supercomputer. The initial focus is to speed up simulations of new materials and molecules for drug development. The ...
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You’re building a science startup! You've probably spent a lot of time in the lab, writing papers on the initial results, and building simulations or prototypes. Now you're going to start a company and commercialize your work. Time to raise seed funding? Scientists are used to giving talks to other scientists. However, pitching to startup incubators and investors is a very different experience than giving talks to their peers and colleagues. ...
Read MoreRecently I did an interview with 96Boards for their Women in STEM Month of May. They're featuring 23 women on their blog and will be hosting a weekly live stream with Sili Scientist, Alejandra Muñoz - girlcodemx, Falkyou, The Engineeress, AnaQueenMaker, and Estefannie Explains it All. I got really lucky with the support I've had on my STEM journey so far, but I also discuss some of the struggles. I talk about my experiences in physics ...
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I finished the Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera! Obviously, Andrew Ng has a track record of being a fantastic instructor, and it's a great introduction to the entire field and includes lots of fun projects. However, you realize by the end that you still have a lot to learn! So, hours later, I embarked on my first deep learning project - building a simple convolutional neural network (CNN) with Keras for ...
Read MoreThe Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera is one of the most popular online courses. Andrew Ng's goal to train the next million AI experts begins with this Specialization. It's been one of my favorite Specializations to take, and I found it very accessible. However, there are a few prerequisites that are useful to have before starting this Specialization. However, if you don't have these prerequisites, don't worry! It's actually not hard to get ...
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The Up-Goer Five Research Challenge is an exciting initiative to explain your research using only the most common ten hundred words in the English language. It's hard, but this movement is necessary. Using jargon and complex terms is a huge problem in science. All this was inspired by XKCD's Up-Goer Five. And it's not about dumbing down your research or the science. The goal is to be clear enough to communicate to ...
Read MoreWant to learn more about QISKit, IBM's quantum information software kit, with the top researchers at IBM? IBM just announced a learning webinar on January 9th, 2018 at 12:00 PM EST. QISKit is easy to start working with because you can code in Python, and they've also put together a lot of Jupyter notebook tutorials. Not only that, but you can run your code on online quantum computing simulators, or even run ...
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