Started at Google Quantum AI in 2014.
Has his LaTeX notes at: github.com/DanielSank/theory. One day he will convert to OurBigBook.com. Interesting to see that he is able to continue his notes despite being at Google.
Sample program output,
counts are randomized each time.First we take the quantum state vector immediately after the input.We understand that the first element of
input:
state:
Statevector([1.+0.j, 0.+0.j, 0.+0.j, 0.+0.j],
dims=(2, 2))
probs:
[1. 0. 0. 0.]Statevector is , and has probability of 1.0.Next we take the state after a Hadamard gate on the first qubit:We now understand that the second element of the
h:
state:
Statevector([0.70710678+0.j, 0.70710678+0.j, 0. +0.j,
0. +0.j],
dims=(2, 2))
probs:
[0.5 0.5 0. 0. ]Statevector is , and now we have a 50/50 propabability split for the first bit.Then we apply the CNOT gate:which leaves us with the final .
cx:
state:
Statevector([0.70710678+0.j, 0. +0.j, 0. +0.j,
0.70710678+0.j],
dims=(2, 2))
probs:
[0.5 0. 0. 0.5]Then we print the circuit a bit:
qc without measure:
┌───┐
q_0: ┤ H ├──■──
└───┘┌─┴─┐
q_1: ─────┤ X ├
└───┘
c: 2/══════════
qc with measure:
┌───┐ ┌─┐
q_0: ┤ H ├──■──┤M├───
└───┘┌─┴─┐└╥┘┌─┐
q_1: ─────┤ X ├─╫─┤M├
└───┘ ║ └╥┘
c: 2/═══════════╩══╩═
0 1
qasm:
OPENQASM 2.0;
include "qelib1.inc";
qreg q[2];
creg c[2];
h q[0];
cx q[0],q[1];
measure q[0] -> c[0];
measure q[1] -> c[1];In Qiskit at: qiskit/hello.py.
Quantum circuit that generates the Bell state
. Source. Often used as a synonym for X-ray crystallography, or to refer more specifically to the diffraction part of the experiment (exluding therefore sample preparation and data processing).
14 million images with more than 20k categories, typically denoting prominent objects in the image, either common daily objects, or a wild range of animals. About 1 million of them also have bounding boxes for the objects. The images have different sizes, they are not all standardized to a single size like MNIST[ref].
Each image appears to have a single label associated to it. Care must have been taken somehow with categories, since some images contain severl possible objects, e.g. a person and some object.
Official project page: www.image-net.org/
The data license is restrictive and forbids commercial usage: www.image-net.org/download.php. Also as a result you have to login to download the dataset. Super annoying.
How to visualize: datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/111756/where-can-i-view-the-imagenet-classes-as-a-hierarchy-on-wordnet
If school weren't bullshit, 99% of students would be in gifted education for what they truly love and are good at.
What is sad about many programs is that they are exclusivist and non scalable, selecting people some how and non scalably educating them. We need a more "here's some projects let's do them whoever can" approach to things, maybe like Google Summer of Code.
Related programs:
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