I am studying/working through the summer in what I guess would be a program with "elite" students from my field. There are people from the top colleges around the world including but not limited to MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Columbia as well as some of the top Canadian, Chinese and European schools. My only colleague that comes off as genius level smart and has a huge breadth of knowledge is from IIT Mumbai. I know it is only one data point but he is also a fairly normal guy. Really nice, thoughtful, loves to hang out and go out for drinks. If every student from IIT is like him I could see a bright future for India
All of this boils down to implementation. A properly implemented QKD system is equivalent to a guarantee that the two key holders are the only one that have the key provided no interception was detected during distribution. However, in practice if there is a flaw in your implementation just like in normal cryptography it is possible to gain enough info to decrypt the transmitted information. I was just at Dr. Makarovs lab in waterloo, one of the first quantum cryptography hackers. They were exploiting such flaws as poor random number generators and optical components inherent reflection to gain information during key distribution on flawed systems. however these flaws are still not exploitable as commercial systems XOR the generated key with a traditional public key so in order to decrypt the information both the QKD and public key distribution must be cracked, which won't happen until we have a quantum computer.
This is perfect for me! As a physics/CS student I prefer to learn my physics from a computational perspective. It allows me to solve more interesting/complex problems as traditional problems tend to go for cookie cutter analytical solutions that are very restricted.
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As a fellow Canadian Student it would be great if you could write a section on how to obtain a Visa to work for the summer in the Bay Area. Last summer I was offered an internship at a Y Combinator startup in the Palo Alto but had to turn it down due to Visa reasons.
After reading several papers on this I think that the hardest issue would depositing the GO and electrolytic layers on a CD substrate. Although there are some fairly reliable and not terribly difficult methods I doubt many would have the materials at home. I would love to try this but I'm a poor student. I may see if I can locate some GO onthe chem labs this summer when no ones around.
Thanks. I'd found those but what I'm really interested in are the course assignments which only seem to be available for the actual course. The first two are the only ones I can't find right now
Wow reading through these assignments I'm blown away this is for a first year course. At this time in my first year half of the class couldn't handle an if statement. Wish I could of went to Stanford.
Come on man. I know hacker news is negative about nearly everything but the world isn't quite so bad. Cheer up and look around you. We've come a long way and there's so much more to do.
I'd love to have something like this. As a student at a small school in Canada it is very hard to make connections in the industry that are often facilitated by larger schools.
One of the researchers recently gave a talk at my school. It was quite interesting. Everyone of them is working on some different aspect of ai, from memory, vision decision etc and than they are attempting to piece this together into a brain from what I gathered.
The entire underpinnings of GPS relies on the speed of light to calculate positions as the GPS satellites send their position, velocity and a current time stamp. These can be used to generate a distance from the satellite based on the velocity of the light. Through multiple distance readings of multiple satellites a position can be determined. Relativity does in fact play a role since the satellites are not geosynchronous they are moving in comparison to Earths reference frame. This creates non negligible errors in GPS which have been accounted for in the GPS equations. If they hadn't been we would have much more error in GPS
Thanks for this. One of my goals is to get my fellow students more involved in the building side of things and not just the academics. Get some real world stuff going.
I've noticed this to be the case too with other courses. So for this one I've decided to implement everything in Scala (I'm currently taking the functional programming course as well. This will work well since this machine learning course requires no code submission and just questions about the results
There are a ton of "hello world" tutorials around. As someone who's currently trying to learn node + express it is very difficult to find tutorials that properly explain everything that are still up to date.