Shorties: Links to All Things Interesting All Show all shortie collections Dijkstra Algorithm is (Somewhat) Defeated For decades, Dijkstra algorithm for finding the shortest paths was a fundamental “Textbook” algorithm. A team of researchers from China have recently presented a new algorithm, that may, in some situation, have a smaller complexity. www.eu.36kr.com Tsinghua Professors Break 40-Year Bottleneck of Dijkstra's Algorithm, Overturn Textbook, Win Best Paper at STOC Tsinghua University’s Duan Ran-led team’s new shortest path algorithm breaks sorting bottleneck, wins Best Paper Award at STOC. Breaking News Ariane-5: The (Probably) Most Famous Bug of All Times Sometimes referred to as “the worst bug ever”, this sloppy coincidence of blindly trusting legacy code, reckless type conversion and lacking of error handling mechanism, made the maiden flight of the Ariane-5 a disaster. The lessons from that failure changed the way we engineer SW today. www.newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com How a Single Line of Code Brought Down a Billion Dollar Rocket When we talk about software today, we should know that its importance is now at the very end of the spectrum of different technologies used. Crazy Bugs Basics of Quantum Information IBM provides a course of the “Basics of Quantum Information” – as video lectures or textbook. At the end, one may earn a badge by passing an exam. www.quantum.cloud.ibm.com overview | IBM Quantum Learning Learn about quantum states, projective measurements, and unitary operations; quantum circuits; how entanglement enables quantum teleportation, and more. Quantum Computing Quantum-Art Stabilizes 200-Ions Chain An impressive achievement to Israeli Quantum-Art. This week, the company reported that it demonstrated the stabilization of a linear chain of no less than 200 ions. www.thequantuminsider.com Quantum Art Demonstrates 200-Ion Linear Chain in Trapped-Ion System Quantum Art has demonstrated a 200-ion linear chain in a trapped-ion system, marking a key milestone toward scalable quantum computing. Quantum Computing A Huge Step towards Operational-Level Quantum Network Scientists in Germany test a new quantum network architecture that might be a great leap towards real-world quantum communication. The heart of the new mechanism allows transmitting and receiving signals at the same time, over the same medium. www.euronews.com Scientists test quantum network over the longest distance yet Up till now, quantum networks were only feasible at smaller scales, about half of this new achievement, or in strictly controlled lab conditions with pricy cooling equipment. Quantum Computing Will We Speak Dolphin? Google trains a new AI model to speak with dolphins. Will we be able to speak with them in our next vacation? www.scientificamerican.com New AI Models Could Let Us Chat with Dolphins Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins AI and ML Eliza is Back! Eliza was the first ever AI chat bots, at the very first days of computers. Recently, this “Artificial Therapist” program brought back to life. What would she say when she sees her successors? www.explained.ph WORLD'S FIRST CHATBOT REVIVED: First AI chatbot ‘ELIZA’ comes back after 60 years Empowering youth-driven and community-oriented journalism. AI and ML Search the Web from Excel Copilot now allows creating Excel tables based on Web search directly from within the application. www.techcommunity.microsoft.com Search and import data with Copilot in Excel Copilot in Microsoft Excel can reference Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents, as well as other Excel files, to pull and analyze internal, web, or other data. Breaking News Quantum Computing: Your starting point Intro to quantum computing – a TED talk. www.youtube.com A beginner's guide to quantum computing | Shohini Ghose A quantum computer isn’t just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it’s something else entirely, based on emerging scientific understanding… Quantum Computing The Boeing-737 Crashes Severe bugs might be lethal. One (or, in fact, two) horrifying example is the crash cases of two Boeing-737 due to bugs in the flying systems. www.abcnews.go.com How Boeing 737 MAX's flawed flight control system led to 2 crashes that killed 346 Watch the full story on “20/20” Crazy Bugs Swiss Trains Did you know? The Swiss trains are not allowed to have 256 axels! If that number rings a bell, you are completely right… www.iflscience.com The Weird Reason Why Trains In Switzerland Are Not Allowed 256 Axles 255? That’s fine. 257? Also good. 256?? Are you trying to get us all killed??? Crazy Bugs