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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻“It is hard to predict when the world will go crazy,” he says of his belief that #quantum will follow the #AI path, with billions invested to secure an impregnable position and #UK companies becoming #AcquisitionTargets.
There are already signs of this happening, with #Oxford #Ionics being acquired for $1.1bn by the US company #IonQ in June.
#QuantumComputers use #QuantumBits, or #qubits, to solve problems exponentially faster than classical computers but they are still prone to mounting errors.
This prevents them from reaching their full potential to #model new #materials for fields such as #medicine and #SolarPower, or master highly complex #calculations.
Rather than trying to build quantum computers themselves, UK #startups such as #Phasecraft, spun out of the #UniversityOfBristol and #UniversityCollegeLondon in 2019, and #Riverlane, which emerged from #CambridgeUniversity in 2016, have focused on the #algorithms and #software needed for the machines to work.”
<https://archive.md/smCSj> / <https://www.ft.com/content/c691caf6-3a54-440a-97dd-61fb0b6b0848> (paywall)
CURIOSSWe're delighted to welcome David Pérez-Suárez of #UniversityCollegeLondon to the #CURIOSS community!
We're looking forward to learning more about David's work with the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) and to future collaboration together.
ℹ️ Learn about ARC: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/
🔍 Find out more about our members: https://curioss.org/about/members/
#academicOSPOs #academicOSS #opensourcesoftware #openscience #opensource #OSScommunity
NorthHerts4EuropeTuesday 20 May 2025, 7.00-10.00, North Herts for Europe Rejoin Roundtable, featuring 'The Impact of Brexit on UK Science' with James Gilbert (University College London), in Holy Saviour Church Hall, Radcliffe Rd, Hitchin SG5 1QG
Sign up for it on our ticketing page, so we have a rough idea of how many people to expect. Free tickets here, https://buytickets.at/northhertsforeurope/1693371
#UCL #UniversityCollegeLondon #Brexit #BrexitBritain #BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitLies #UK #Politics #UKPolitics
#UKPol #EU #RejoinEU #NorthHerts #Hitchin #Letchworth #Baldock #Royston
Vicky
In the DarkA week or so ago I posted an item about the Edgeworth family that included a reference to Kenneth Edgeworth, an amateur astronomer of some note who first posited the existence of what is now known as the Kuiper belt. Here’s another interesting connection. Kenneth Edgeworth was born in 1880 in Daramona House in Street in County Westmeath. The owner of this house was Edgeworth’s uncle, another astronomer called William Edward Wilson who built an observatory next to Daramona House.
Here are pictures of (left) house and (right) the observatory, neither of look in particularly good condition!
After independence, many of the large houses owned by the rich Anglo-Irish families who had run Ireland until then fell into disrepair or were destroyed.
Anyway, on top of the two-storey observatory building there used to be a dome that housed a 24″ Grubb reflecting telescope. Here’s an old picture showing what it looked like in better times, around 1900:
The dome is no longer there, and neither is the telescope. The latter was donated to the University of London in 1925 eventually housed in the Observatory at Mill Hill, now run by University College London. Here is an excerpt from the history of the University of London Observatory:
W.E. Wilson established an observatory at Daramona, Street, County Westmeath, in 1871 and equipped it with a 12-inch equatorial reflector by Grubb. Wilson (born in 1851, elected FRS in 1896, an original member of the BAA, awarded an honorary DSc by the University of Dublin in 1901, High Sheriff of Co. Westmeath in 1894), observed the transit of Venus in 1882 and solar eclipses at Oran in 1870 and Spain in 1900, published many papers in Proc. R. Soc, Proc. R. Dublin Soc., Proc. R. Irish Acad., etc., and died in 1908) enlarged his observatory in 1881 and installed a 24-inch reflector by Grubb on the mounting previously used for the 12-inch reflector. Ten years later a new mounting was constructed. It is this mounting which was moved to Mill Hill in 1928. Dr. Wilson used his telescope to make some of the best photographs of his time of star clusters and nebulae, and he worked extensively on problems of solar physics and the solar constant. The telescope may be used in Newtonian and Cassegrain forms; the focal length of the mirror is 10 feet and the equivalent focal length at the Cassegrain focus is approximately 42 feet. The telescope was moved in 1928 from Ireland to University College, where minor modifications were made to the focussing arrangements and plate-holder, and an electric motor was added to rewind the driving clock automatically.
The Wilson telescope was retired from active service in 1974 and moved to the World Museum in Liverpool where, as far as I know, it remains on display to this day.
https://telescoper.blog/2024/11/03/another-edgeworth-connection/
#24ReflectingTelescope #astronomy #CountyWestmeath #DaramondaHouse #HowardGrubb #observatory #Street #ThomasGrubb #UniversityCollegeLondon #WilliamEdwardWilson
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✧ Tom Taylor ✧
Tom Taylor (1817–1880) was an English dramatist, public servant and writer. After a brief academic career in English literature and language at University College London in the 1840s, Taylor practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist, most prominently as a contributor to and eventually the editor of the magazine Punch. He...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor
Alan LewisSTONEHENGE IS MORE SCOTTISH THAN WE THOUGHT
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations
Esther Addley
Wed 14 Aug 2024 11.00 EDT
Let's see if we can find a Robert Burns poem about Stonehenge.
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#aberystwythuniversity #anthonyclarke #archaeology #britisharchaeology #curtinuniversity #englisharchaeology #giantsdance #giantsring #howtobuildstonehenge #mikepitts #nickpearce #robertburns #robixer #salisburyplain #sciencenews #stonehenge #stonehengemonument #ukarchaeology #universitycollegelondon #universityofadelaide #wiltshire
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