Mahkfrombos

Blizzardengle stealing my shout out on the WAN show with his fancy IBM.com source.

Sorry thought joke was obvious. Didn't really expect to have the world's greatest minds using potentially mind-blowing computing technology to play minecraft.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-launches-first-quantum-computer-cloud-service-2016-5 IBM has released a publicly available, cloud quantum computer with a user interface to allow anyone with some algebra skills and some programming knowledge to create programs for it. The computer is 5 qubits, on par with a regular computer. The industry is expecting IBM and Google to race to somewhere around 50 qubits, much more powerful than today's super computers. This article focuses primarily on explaining the race between Google and IBM with some background on Quantum computing and specifics of this computer. As someone who is new to the world of quantum computing (for those like me see Tech Quickie-Quantum Computing), it seems like this is next leap forward in processing power, especially as we hear Intel tell us that processing innovation is slowing. I appreciate the opportunity the IBM is offering the public to use this intro to the technology via a cloud service. The article seems to frame this milestone as a possible put down to Google as a way to for IBM to say "haha we're here first." It's going to be an interesting playing around with this though, is there a Programming in Quantum for Dummies yet? Source 2: http://www.wired.com/2016/05/ibm-letting-anyone-play-quantum-computer/

Hey all, My coworker and I are having a discussion on what laptops we should get for running our models at work. She is convinced that getting a dedicated gpu on a system with a integrated gpu is pointless because all of the processing that the dedicated gpu does is passed through the integrated gpu thus throttling the dedicated gpu. I am under the impression that the dedicated gpu does all the work and the integrated gpu is essentially disabled. That being said I not exactly sure how the two integrated and dedicated play together so I can't go and tell her for sure (also she might be right, there's a lot of contradicting info on google). So who's right? or are we both wrong? I know you guys love specs so here's what were looking at currently (open to any suggestions like if you know this processor has bad value, etc but I recognize that it's a pretty rockin' laptop): Dell Precision 17 7710 CPU: Intel Core i7-6820HQ (Intel HD Graphics 530) GPU: Nvidia Quadro M5000M 8GB GDDR5 RAM: 32 GB DDR4-2133MHz Storage: 256 GB SSD PCIe and 1TB HDD

Kova looks amazing.