This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key …
This is a job for LLL: Give it (or its brethren) a basis of a multidimensional lattice, and it’ll spit out a better one. This process is known as lattice …
Sabrent announced a new Universal Docking Station designed to provide a desktop home for laptops but it will work with just about any USB-C device, including tablets, smartphones, or other …
Turing’s diagonalization proof is a version of this game where the questions run through the infinite list of possible algorithms, repeatedly asking, “Can this algorithm solve the problem we’d like …
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. So far this year, Quanta has chronicled three major advances in Ramsey theory, the study of how to avoid creating …
Graham attempted to modify the CNN approach by applying the kernel only on 3-by-3 sections of the image that contained at least one nonzero value pixel. This modification allowed him …