Status Updates
In Spring Festival, I have been busy preparing for a GRE test on 28th Feb, which is to fulfill the requirements of my NTU application. I hope I can get back to the topics that really matter, which are reviews on and surveys to quantum computing, quantum software development and visualization.
Recently I watched a podcast interviewing Scott Aaronson, a brilliant mathematician and quantum computing theorist. He mentioned that the essence of quantum computing lies in interference, which I think gives a different perspective. The interference of qubits is a bit more abstract from, say, light interference in a double slit experiment, and such interference does not manifest itself in nature. I have a feeling that "how to visualize interference" may be a good question to ask and a right one for research. This also seems more related to scientific visualization rather than data visualization.
The handover of my work is in the process at the mean time, so I still have a busy February to come.
Relevant News
- Nvidia Quantum Day in GTC 2025: For the first time, Nvidia GTC is expected to have an entire day focused on quantum computing. The date is 21st March. Checkout the link to see the interesting sessions.
- Deepseek R1 and Open R1: With Deepseek R1 and Open R1, we can soon finetune this free and open reasoning model to fit our use cases (quantum computing and personalized visualization).
- Deep Research from OpenAI: I think it's revolutionary for data analysis. It doesn't quite get to data visualization or scientific visualization yet, since it is now mostly gathering and reasoning on information based on the definite needs from users but in SciVis or DataVis, users initially may not know what they are looking for. However, I can see it will quickly (in less than a year) be capable of doing that, giving insights and visualization based on raw data and vague questions.