Month: July 2022

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez — affectionately known as “Bennifer” — are back together after nearly two decades apart. The actor and singer-actor have made a dramatic return to the headlines that has many people asking the age-old question: Should I get back with my ex, too?

It’s a question that plagues a lot of people, says Laura F. Dabney, MD, a psychiatrist specializing in marriage and relationships, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

“It’s comforting to know somebody already,” Dr. Dabney says — versus the fear of something new. “And when the attraction is still there, too, that desire to make it work can be very appealing.”

What’s more, it can be difficult to grieve the loss of a relationship, says Bonnie Scott, a licensed professional counselor in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. “So, if we can slide back into a pattern with an ex, there’s no end to mourn. And that’s pretty tempting.”

A roadmap for the future direction of quantum simulation has been set out in a paper co-authored at the University of Strathclyde.

Quantum computers are hugely powerful devices with a capacity for speed and calculation which is well beyond the reach of classical, or binary, computing. Instead of a binary system of zeroes and ones, it operates through superpositions, which may be zeroes, ones or both at the same time.

The continuously-evolving development of quantum computing has reached the point of having an advantage over classical computers for an artificial problem. It could have future applications in a wide range of areas. One promising class of problems involves the simulation of quantum systems, with potential applications such as developing materials for batteries, industrial catalysis and nitrogen fixing.

The paper, published in Nature, explores near- and medium-term possibilities for quantum simulation on analogue and digital platforms to help evaluate the potential of this area. It has been co-written by researchers from Strathclyde, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, the University of Innsbruck, the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Microsoft Corporation.

Professor Andrew Daley, of Strathclyde’s Department of Physics, is lead author of the paper. He said: “There has been a great deal of exciting progress in analogue and digital quantum simulation in recent years, and quantum simulation is one of the most promising fields of quantum information processing. It is already quite mature, both in terms of algorithm development, and in the availability of significantly advanced analogue quantum simulation experiments internationally.

“In computing history, classical analogue and digital computing co-existed for more than half a century, with a gradual transition towards digital computing, and we expect the same thing to happen with the emergence of quantum simulation.

“As a next step along the development of this technology, it is now important to discuss ‘practical quantum advantage,’ the point at which quantum devices will solve problems of practical interest that are not tractable for traditional supercomputers.

“Many of the most promising short-term applications of quantum computers fall under the umbrella of quantum simulation: modeling the quantum properties of microscopic particles that are directly relevant to understanding modern materials science, high-energy physics and quantum chemistry.

“Quantum simulation should be possible in the future on fault-tolerant digital quantum computers with more flexibility and precision, but it can also already be done today for specific models through special-purpose analogue quantum simulators. This happens in an analogous way to the study of aerodynamics, which can be conducted either in a wind tunnel or through simulations on a digital computer. Where aerodynamics often use a smaller scale model to understand something big, analogue quantum simulators often take a larger scale model to understand something even smaller.

“Analogue quantum simulators are now moving from providing qualitative demonstrations of physical phenomena to providing quantitative solutions for native problems. A particularly exciting way forward in the near term is the development of a range of programmable quantum simulators hybridising digital and analogue techniques. This holds great potential because it combines the best advantages of both sides by making use of the native analogue operations to produce highly entangled states.”

The University of Strathclyde and all of the partners on this perspective article have large, active programs involving both theory of architectures and algorithms, as well as development of platforms for analogue quantum simulation and digital quantum computing. The partners have been collaborating as part of the Horizon 2020 EU Quantum Technologies Flagship project PASQuanS. At Strathclyde, research in this area is strongly embedded in the UK’s national quantum technology programme, and has received substantial funding from UK Research and Innovation.

A Quantum Technology Cluster is embedded in the Glasgow City Innovation District, an initiative driven by Strathclyde along with Glasgow City Council, Scottish Enterprise, Entrepreneurial Scotland and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. It is envisaged as a global place for quantum industrialisation, attracting companies to co-locate, accelerate growth, improve productivity and access world-class research technology and talent at Strathclyde.

The University of Strathclyde is the only academic institution that has been a partner in all four EPSRC-funded Quantum Technology Hubs in both phases of funding. The Hubs are in: Sensing and Timing; Quantum Enhanced Imaging; Quantum Computing and Simulation, and Quantum Communications Technologies.

Reference:

1. Andrew J. Daley, Immanuel Bloch, Christian Kokail, Stuart Flannigan, Natalie Pearson, Matthias Troyer, Peter Zoller. Practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation. Nature, 2022; 607 (7920): 667 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04940-6

YouTube has presented another tool that makes it simpler for creators to transform ordinary videos into Shorts, it is announced locally update. In the event that you have any of your own videos loaded up, you’ll see another tool under “Create” called “Edit into a Short” just inside the primary app. It allows you to choose as long as 60 seconds of the video and bring it straightforwardly into the Shorts editor, where you can add text filters, or extra video, then upload it as a Short.

YouTube needs to increase the quantity of short-structure “Shorts” videos accessible on its platform rapidly to better rival TikTok. To help with this work, the organization is today carrying out another maker tool that transforms existing YouTube videos into Shorts right away. The update, presently accessible on YouTube’s mobile app, allows a video maker to effortlessly choose a section of any video they’ve uploaded beforehand, then, at that point, publish that clip as YouTube Shorts content.

After you upload the Short, it links to the full video it was taken from through the “Created from” interface at the lower part of the video. That allows creators to use Shorts as promo tools for the fundamental video, helping drive perspectives and engagement. Notwithstanding, the tool just chips away at your own substance, dissimilar to Cut, which lets you remix content from any video.

The organization was at that point changing over clients’ uploaded vertical videos under 60 seconds as Shorts videos, regardless of whether the substance had been initially uploaded as a standard YouTube video. (Not all creators were fans of this thought, we ought to note.) Now YouTube is hoping creators will all the more effectively assist with working out the Shorts library considerably further with the launch of this new tool that permits them to clip interesting bits from their more extended videos.

The move might signal the amount YouTube parent Google is stressed over TikTok’s predominance in short-form. Obviously, it doesn’t imagine that allowing YouTube’s Shorts library to become naturally through new, unique substance uploads will be sufficient to contend. All things considered, YouTube has been depending on leveraging its current long-form content to make more Shorts. This April, for instance, YouTube announced that any open YouTube video could be “remixed” into YouTube Shorts except if creators quit.

The new tool, in the interim, basically returns a portion of the capacity to the creators’ own hands.

The updated mobile app allows creators to choose a part of their video as long as 60 seconds long and transform that into Shorts content utilizing similar altering tools they knew all about inside the app, making sense of the organization. On the off chance that their choice is under 60 seconds in length, they can shoot extra videos utilizing the Shorts camera or they can add gallery videos to finish their 60-second Shorts content.

Creators might be propelled to involve the tool for the purpose of producing interest in their long-form content, as YouTube takes note that Shorts made utilizing VOD (video on demand) happy will automatically link back to the first.

YouTube has been touting Shorts’ capacity to drive perspectives to creators’ long-form content as a part of a pattern it alluded to as “the rise of the multiformat creator.” In June, the organization said Shorts had topped 1.5 billion logged-in month-to-month clients yet just had anecdotal data to recommend that Shorts were assisting with developing critical metrics like watch time or subscribers.

Meanwhile, the way that YouTube is leaning so heavily on its current long-form content to work out Shorts recommends a potential absence of maker premium in filming unique Shorts; or it could likewise imply that YouTube eventually still considers more potential to be a long-form platform — yet it imagines Shorts as a marketing mechanism to boost sees for its better-monetized content.

The new Shorts creation feature is rolling out beginning today on YouTube’s mobile app for the two iOS and Android gadgets, the organization says.

YouTube Shorts is currently being watched by over 1.5 billion signed-in clients consistently with in excess of 30 billion day-to-day sees.

The organization said that this update will allow clients to carry new life to their exemplary substance and give them a better approach to connecting with their audience.

Assuming clients select a part of their video that is under 60 seconds, they can shoot extra videos with the Shorts camera as well as upload additional videos from their gallery to make 60 seconds Shorts if necessary.

The organization mentioned that main the first creator will actually want to bring their long-form videos into Shorts as this tool isn’t accessible for different creators to use in their substance.

Shorts made from VODs will link back to the first lengthy structure videos so that individuals watching their Short can see the first video as well.

Google has seen empowerment bring about its initial monetization endeavors on the short-video making stage YouTube Shorts.

The massive progress of TikTok has forced all social media networks to answer somehow or another. Be that as it may, Instagram as of late backpedaled on its TikTok-like full-screen feed and suggested post features following a significant backlash from clients.

YouTube is ostensibly less threatened by TikTok as it offers longer-structure content that draws an alternate audience. The new tool demonstrates the way that it can have its (Short?) cake and eat it as well, however, by allowing creators to offer Shorts as a type of publicity for their essential substance.

How the new feature works

In the event that the client is the creator of the full video, they’ll have the option to carry the clip into the Shorts editor straightforwardly from the YouTube app on iOS or Android to get to all of the editing tools, including text, timeline editor, and filters.

Assuming they select part of the video that is under 60 seconds, they can shoot extra video with the Shorts camera and upload more from their gallery. To shoot or add a gallery video, you’ll have to hit the back arrow once in the altering screen after you’ve picked your video segment.