Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, November 25, 2022
AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
Plus: How to prove polygon equivalence with baked goods; A conversation with the mathematician Wei Ho
We May Have a Bit of a Problem Quantum computers will someday solve problems more quickly than classical computers can — or so it's hoped. But we're not there yet: Philip Ball writes for Physics Magazine about an experiment that shows quantum computers still can't beat their classical counterparts at simulating molecules. The main problem with quantum computers is that their quantum bits are extremely fragile and error-prone. In 2021 Katie McCormick wrote for Quanta about strategies to correct these errors.
Rooted in Conflict The idea that trees chat and collaborate through an underground network of fungal filaments — the "wood wide web" — has become popular. But not all scientists believe it, writes Gabriel Popkin for The New York Times. The "wood wide web" is usually sold as a benevolent, cooperative network of trees. But in 2019 Gabriel Popkin wrote for Quanta about new evidence of the ruthless side of the fungi that rule the soil network.
