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Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

Gradient-based algorithms are particularly suitable for performance measures that are either quadratic or at least unimodal. For some classes of problems [1] [3] the mathematical relation of the ...

Random circuit sampling, a popular technique for showing the power of quantum computers, doesn’t scale up if errors go unchecked. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the best ...