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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
~ James Gleick
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via The New York Times:
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
by Cade Metz
published on February 19, 2025
Pull Quote
“Microsoft’s quantum technology could leapfrog the methods under development at Google. As part of its research, the company built multiple topological qubits inside a new kind of computer chip that combines the strengths of the semiconductors that power classical computers with the superconductors that are typically used to build a quantum computer.”
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The Who – Eminence Front (Live In Hyde Park 2015)
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America rests on a foundation of ordered liberty. The state sets broad rules that are intended to be timeless and universal, and implements those rules. We have not always done that perfectly, but the idea was that we were always getting better.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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