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Matt "msw" Wilson

releases electromagnetics simulation software package to help build hardware using the scale of computing.

My take: classical computers are going to be a huge part of building and operating quantum computers.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantum-c

Amazon Web ServicesAWS releases open-source software Palace for cloud-based electromagnetics simulations of quantum computing hardware | Amazon Web ServicesToday, we are introducing Palace, for PArallel, LArge-scale Computational Electromagnetics, a parallel finite element code for full-wave electromagnetics simulations. Palace is used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing to perform large-scale 3D simulations of complex electromagnetics models and enable the design of quantum computing hardware. We developed it with support for the scalability and […]
Kevin Karhan :verified:

@msw will always remain a nieche and at best we'll see some deskside chassis [or something like an eGPU box] for a "Quantum Computing Accelerator" in some cases, since QC doesn't accelerate almost all computational workflows.

Also doesn't do that out of goodwill but to said industry with down the line.

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@msw And that's how we get bloated shit like that NOONE SHOULD EVER USE - PERIOD!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_O

Espechally when is the superior format that is without and with a specification that anyone but Microsoft can even implement!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocu

en.wikipedia.orgOffice Open XML - Wikipedia
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Matt "msw" Wilson

@kkarhan I'm 100% with you about the whole OOXML debacle.

My personal position on that is very aligned with the official Red Hat position back in the day.

redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-opp

www.redhat.comRed Hat Opposes OOXMLAs the March 29th voting deadline on OOXML approaches, Red Hat has announced its support of Open Document Format (ODF) instead of Office Open XML (OOXML). The Company released its official position statement on OOXML on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The statement, hosted on Red Hat’s new Open Standards website, cites the desire for interoperability and the inadequacy of review as the Company’s primary reasons for opposing OOXML.Red Hat supports ODF, an existing ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standard, which was openly reviewed and developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for nearly three years before it was submitted to ISO for approval. In contrast, ECMA, the European Computer Manufacturer’s Association, reviewed OOXML for only one year before it sought ISO standardization. Despite the short review period, ECMA produced over 6,000 pages of documentation for OOXML, compared to the 700 pages of ODF.Regardless of the complexity of the specifications, it is thought that OOXML is not currently defined enough to be fully implementable by those without access to inside information. ECMA, for example, acknowledges that additional information is necessary for compatibility with legacy application settings, and promises that the information will be made available. While it’s helpful to acknowledge the limitations of OOXML, we think it is unfair to ask the nation bodies, as members of ISO, to approve an incomplete standard. Given the lack of interoperability and inadequate review, Red Hat is asking members of ISO to vote “No” to OOXML this month.
Matt "msw" Wilson

@kkarhan Personally, I think it is good public policy to require the use of truly open standards (i.e., not ones with hidden encumbrances like non-royalty-free patents, or are too complex to implement) that have competing, interoperable, concurrently developed/maintained implementations when it comes to documents.

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@msw Personally, I do mandate to myself and others to only use that are , and truly / or at the very least fully opensourced...

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@msw Seen enough people struggling with trying to use their old Aldus Persuation presentations or even converting them to PDFs.

In some cases, I've seen people having to pirate the software, setup a retro PC and then manually grab still images with some capture device to then get these transfered into PDFs...

Or completely remade by hand based off said screenshots!

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