₦airaland Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xfz09IJTYY

DubaiLandLord1:
So why did you compare the US army to that of Nigeria when you know they are not fighting on their soil?

Are you implying that one military crime is better or more understandable than another depending on location? Personally i don't see why Canadian soldiers raping and mutilating a Somalian girl, as I read somewhere, in addition to killing two other unarmed Somalis is not just as bad as Canadian soldiers raping some Canadian girl at a club somewhere in Canada and gunning down a couple of Canadians in Canada. If we are establishing a hierarchy of military committed crimes, does crime committed by US soldiers in Afghanistan rank higher than ones committed in Iraq for instance?

If, for the sake of trying to understand this thing, Nigeria invited American police to help ensure peaceful elections in some state and they ended up abusing their powers and shot dead several civilians would this be of less concern to the American state or international opinion than equivalent deaths caused by police in America. Wouldn't it actually be seen as worst to commit this abuse of power in a foreign nation than at home?

I have little doubt personally that American soldiers would commit conflict crimes in America should armed conflict arise in America to the extent that it has in Nigeria. I actually believe they would commit worst ones in any objective analysis afterwards. Could the American civil war be used in illustration or is that too old?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJl-Yu33nZ4

But the impression anyone could reasonably take from this video and profile articles posted so far on this guy is one of competence and good track record, what could have gone wrong ? This is like a tragedy on all sides, even sympathy for him too.

Matheusmartin:
...
Nigerians love to cut corners in almost every thing they do.

From getting admission into school..
to securing employment..
to executing tasks..


Na wicked people full this country.

so, "Na wicked people full this country" as opposed to kind people that full other countries where buildings also regularly collapse resulting in unfortunate deaths?

Hoverbird:
You people will always find a way to defend nonsense. How many time have you heard that US soldiers commit crimes against their own citizens? We need alot of reorientation in this country.

Where did this take place, when, what platoon, regiment, casualties etc....

I recall how Cameroon authorities tried to deny the killing of several women by their soldiers and pass it off as having occurred in another country ( unspoken suspicion being placed on Nigeria) . However International interest lead to investigators being able to determine their guilt by use of satellite and other digital means. Cameroon had no hiding place in the end.

It is very important for what occurred in this vid to be made clear and transparent. Nigeria army should make a great deal of this so that no room is left for exploitation by agitators. If all turns out as it seems, then make an example of the soldiers, publicly, however difficult this may be to moral and reputation.

fergie001:
The 21-storey building that collapsed today at Musikiu Junction by Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, was sealed by the State government last year to "prevent calamity".

Unfortunately, it appears the building was later unsealed and construction continued until it collapsed today, November 1, at about 2:25 pm.

In July 2020, it was reported that Sanwo-Olu had sealed the Gerard, Ikoyi high-rise.



Linda Ikejis blog

[url=https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/well-curb-incidents-of-building-collapse-says-sanwo-olu/%3famp]It [/url] can be recalled that Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu on October 21, 2021 promised that his administration will curb building collapse incidents in the state with the inauguration of the Certificate of Completion and Fitness for Habitation by the Lagos State Building Control Agency.

Perhaps this is an illustration of what I mean when I say Nigeria's main problem is disorganization of which absence of continuity is part. Authorities, rightly as it has turned out, determined that unsafe practices had been carried out and consequently , quote, " building site -was-sealed-by-governor-sanwo-olu-a-year-ago-to-prevent-calamity". So far, excellent; however, it looks as if lack of organisation, resulting in discontinuity of the monitoring process allowed the owners/investors to proceed with construction behind the back of authorities. An organised society is a relentlessly persistent one, authorities are not permitted to rest on their laurels.

Authorities cannot one day go and clear the infamous market overrun by thieves, dust their hands in satisfaction at a job well done but never return to ensure the market dose not spring up again or leave measures that ensure the market won’t ever return. Nigeria practices Nation building and leaving instead of Nation building and running.

If Nigeria had Maintained since independence, Nigeria’s subsequent wealth and affluence today would (as happens in the West) comfortably accommodate current levels of corruption and ethnic bigotry so that the people would t even notice it in their average lives. The amount of magnificent business I’ve seen started and grown in Nigeria then abandoned by owners that prefer to enjoy the wealth their business gained them instead of expanding them, no be small

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irx5LlAA7GY

NaijirianKing:
This is where we run into trouble because of a cultural misunderstanding. It's not a "Northern invasion" as you put it, but more complex.

The Fulani man is a global man, anywhere he goes and it is good, will be home. The Fulani is detribalized and one of the most tolerant of other's cultures, to the point where Fulani will even leave their mother tongue and use the language of the host communities. Fulani believe in becoming "one" with the hosts.

So, many Fulani came into the country from Sahel not looking for housing but land to call their own. This is why some occupy the bush, because from there they will be left alone to develop and create a community far enough away from the indigenes in order to not cause trouble. Fulani are peace loving.

This is why the bush is important, it is free of population and fertile, so we can create new communities. However, recently these communities have come under attack and Fulani have been retaliating. All the Fulani want is to be left alone, and for peace to reign.

I don't know enough of the issue to discus it usefully but I'll take from what you say the certainty that whether an individual shouts Divide Nigeria, or not, Fulani people will enter into every one of the Nations you divide Nigeria into, from Oduduwa to Biafra, From Nigeria to Cameroon. Therefore if Fulani people are an individual’s problem then that individual’s ultimate contention is with the nature of nomadic free movement in contemporary Africa, the UN’s response and nothing to do specifically with Nigeria. Thanks.

sapientia:
One Nigeria

No complain

One Nigeria, yes; one Africa, no. Are the Fulani invading his people's space Nigeria Fulani?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8ZAZGLpfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agT09pLtQs

Happy Birthday sweetie

...but come o, the second picture with sweetie in silver dress, are you sure Dynast Omowale ( Search For Uhuru) isn't lalasticlala's distant relative?

Extraordinary how, reading through posts, those that call themselves Nigerian entirely miss the significance of the larger symbolic message being sent to Nigerians and the world

This is how Russian internet/cyber criminals are described:

Russia - Sophisticated technology and enormous creativity to stay one step ahead.

How do Russian hackers rob banks?

These cybercriminals’ favourite victims are located mainly in Europe and the US, so they have had to adapt to their security measures. These measures mainly comprise banking credentials and two-factor authentication, whether via SMS, coordinate cards, etc.

In this respect, in order to bypass these types of protection measures, the cybercriminals manipulate users so that they look at what they want by resorting to WebInject techniques.

https://www.revelock.com/en/blog/the-worlds-top-3-cybercrime-and-online-fraud-hotspots

Top 20 Countries Found to Have the Most Cybercrime
By Sumo3000 in Computer Security

Symantec has ranked 20 countries that face, or cause, the most cybercrime. In compiling such a list, Symantec was able to quantify software code that interferes with a computer's normal functions, rank zombie systems, and observe the number of websites that host phishing sites, which are designed to trick computer users into disclosing personal data or banking account information. Symantec was also able to obtain data including the number of bot-infected systems which are those controlled by cybercriminals, rank countries where cyber attacks initiated and factor in the a higher rate of cybercrime in countries that have more access to broadband connections. The highest rate of cybercrime was found to be in the United States which may mainly contribute to the broad range of available broadband connections, which are those that allow uninterrupted internet connectivity.



1. United States of America
Share of malicious computer activity: 23%
Malicious code rank: 1
Spam zombies rank: 3
Phishing web site hosts rank: 1
Bot rank: 2
Attack origin rank: 1

2. China
Share of malicious computer activity: 9%
Malicious code rank: 2
Spam zombies rank: 4
Phishing web site hosts rank: 6
Bot rank: 1
Attack origin rank: 2

3. Germany
Share of malicious computer activity: 6%
Malicious code rank: 12
Spam zombies rank: 2
Phishing web site hosts rank: 2
Bot rank: 4
Attack origin rank: 4

4. Britain
Share of malicious computer activity: 5%
Malicious code rank: 4
Spam zombies rank: 10
Phishing web site hosts rank: 5
Bot rank: 9
Attack origin rank: 3

5. Brazil
Share of malicious computer activity: 4%
Malicious code rank: 16
Spam zombies rank: 1
Phishing web site hosts rank: 16
Bot rank: 5
Attack origin rank: 9

6. Spain
Share of malicious computer activity: 4%
Malicious code rank: 10
Spam zombies rank: 8
Phishing web site hosts rank: 13
Bot rank: 3
Attack origin rank: 6

7. Italy
Share of malicious computer activity: 3%
Malicious code rank: 11
Spam zombies rank: 6
Phishing web site hosts rank: 14
Bot rank: 6
Attack origin rank: 8

8. France
Share of malicious computer activity: 3%
Malicious code rank: 8
Spam zombies rank: 14
Phishing web site hosts rank: 9
Bot rank: 10
Attack origin rank: 5

9. Turkey
Share of malicious computer activity: 3%
Malicious code rank: 15
Spam zombies rank: 5
Phishing web site hosts rank: 24
Bot rank: 8
Attack origin rank: 12

10. Poland
Share of malicious computer activity: 3%
Malicious code rank: 23
Spam zombies rank: 9
Phishing web site hosts rank: 8
Bot rank: 7
Attack origin rank: 17

11. India
Share of malicious computer activity: 3%
Malicious code rank: 3
Spam zombies rank: 11
Phishing web site hosts rank: 22
Bot rank: 20
Attack origin rank: 19

12. Russia
Share of malicious computer activity: 2%
Malicious code rank: 18
Spam zombies rank: 7
Phishing web site hosts rank: 7
Bot rank: 17
Attack origin rank: 14

13. Canada
Share of malicious computer activity: 2%
Malicious code rank: 5
Spam zombies rank: 40
Phishing web site hosts rank: 3
Bot rank: 14
Attack origin rank: 10

14. South Korea
Share of malicious computer activity: 2%
Malicious code rank: 21
Spam zombies rank: 19
Phishing web site hosts rank: 4
Bot rank: 15
Attack origin rank: 7

15. Taiwan
Share of malicious computer activity: 2%
Malicious code rank: 11
Spam zombies rank: 21
Phishing web site hosts rank: 12
Bot rank: 11
Attack origin rank: 15

16. Japan
Share of malicious computer activity: 2%
Malicious code rank: 7
Spam zombies rank: 29
Phishing web site hosts rank: 11
Bot rank: 22
Attack origin rank: 11

17. Mexico
Share of malicious computer activity: 2%
Malicious code rank: 6
Spam zombies rank: 18
Phishing web site hosts rank: 31
Bot rank: 21
Attack origin rank: 16

18. Argentina
Share of malicious computer activity: 1%
Malicious code rank: 44
Spam zombies rank: 12
Phishing web site hosts rank: 20
Bot rank: 12
Attack origin rank: 18

19. Australia
Share of malicious computer activity: 1%
Malicious code rank: 14
Spam zombies rank: 37
Phishing web site hosts rank: 17
Bot rank: 27
Attack origin rank: 13

20. Israel
Share of malicious computer activity: 1%
Malicious code rank: 40
Spam zombies rank: 16
Phishing web site hosts rank: 15
Bot rank: 16
Attack origin rank: 22

In regards to online scam and fraud, my brief research indicates that Nigeria does not rank anywhere near highest when research is carried out by reputable companies and institutes. It may surprise you Nigerians - but not me - to discover that when Nigeria is ranked number one, those responsible for the ranking are often black people, either Africans or African Americans.


FB1
2020 - TOP 20 INTERNATIONAL VICTIM COUNTRIES
Excluding the United States

1. United Kingdom 216,633
2. Canada 5,399
3. India 2,930
4. Greece 2,314
5. Australia 1,807
6. South Africa 1,754
7. France 1,640
8. Germany 1,578 13.
9. Mexico 1,164 14.
10. Belgium 1,023
11. Brazil 951
12. Philippines 898
13.Italy 728
14. Spain 618
15. Netherlands 450
16. Nigeria 443
17. Pakistan 443
18. China 442
19. Colombia 418
20. Hong Kong 407
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2020_IC3Report.pdf

There are so many types of internet/cyber crimes causing billions world wide and Nigerians are only prevalent or prominent in Romance and Advance fees fraud. Why suddenly this makes Nigerians thieves of the world to be denied credit or business opportunity is up o you lot to tell yourselves.

JaskanFactor:
i hope you people can make the connection between Nigeria front role for fraud on earth and the current blood shed in Nigeria.

Its one thing to commit fraud against other African people, its entirely different thing to do it to oyinbo , and then to do it to a stage where its common knowledge amongst oyinbo and talk of the town in oyinbo society.

Cause when you do it to oyinbo , you are like the prisoner locked away waiting to be killed off, who escapes at night to steal from his captors
So that when you steal from oyinbo, you are hurrying up the day they will come for all of the people who like like you.

Why do you think EFCC was created, and that EFCC is leading its charge against those stealing from oyinbo more than the fight against boko haram. Efccc and Boko Haram are both working for the oyinbo you have been stealing from.

When you are biting the hand that feeds you, your days are numbered.

All you materialistic unnaturally ambitious african people, will be the death of your entire race, cause you are not aware that we as black are prisoners to all the other races on earth and they run africa. and you are stealing from them, stealing from your captors , how do you expect that to end.

i work in europe, they are very angry about this, they hate us for this, sometimes they walk up to me and ask why are your people so crazy about money.

I worked at a company that got new manager who whose giving me funny looks before he even started his job, luckily i left the job before he could start, but on the day i was leaving he was angry he would not be able to have me under him , so he started the Nigerian fraud abuse as i was leaving the company.

All this people that are stealing from Oyinbo are putting all of you whom they hide amongst in danger.

What's causing the bloodshed in Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Angola and why is internet/Cyber criminality not causing bloodshed in India, Russia and the Ukraine ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f76u51Mc-Qo

SCIENTISTS have created the world's first "thinking" robot as experts raise issues about the ethics and legalities of creating machines that can think for themselves.
By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY

A team of researchers in Japan has taught a robot how to "think" like a human using brain-like cells grown in a lab. The breakthrough experiment was carried at the University of Tokyo where the hand-sized robot was left to navigate a maze. Using a technique called "physical reservoir computing", the robot was linked to a culture of neuron brain nerves in a bid to mimic a real brain.

The experiment marks the first time scientists have used lab-grown cells to train artificial intelligence (AI).

The robot's neurons were stimulated with electricity to perform a specific task.

In this particular case, the robot was tasked with reaching a black circular box hidden away in the maze.

If the robot veered off course or drove into an obstacle, the electrical impulses were disturbed.

The researchers also fed robot homeostatic signals as confirmation it was heading in the right direction.

The study's authors said: "We developed a closed-loop system to generate a coherent signal from a spontaneously active living neuronal culture and embodied the culture with a mobile vehicle robot.

"When the robot collided with obstacles or when its goal was not within 90 degrees in front of it, an electrical stimulation from an electrode was applied to the culture.

"The robot could successfully reach its goal in four different fields."

The robot could not see or hear its surroundings and its decisions were made purely based on the signals reaching its "brain".

Study author Hirokazu Takahashi said: "I was inspired by our experiments to hypothesise that intelligence in a living system emerges from a mechanism extracting a coherent output from a disorganised state, or a chaotic state."

The experiment's results were published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

Although the Japanese robot is a far cry from the killer machines envisioned by filmmaker James Cameron for the Terminator film franchise, scientists are already debating the ethics of thinking Al.

To address the problems, the European Commission has launched the Robotics4EU Project to encourage the adoption of AI and robotics in Europe, while raising awareness of all the issues involved.

The group said in a statement: "To do so, it will gather a responsible robotics community, with representatives from companies and academia in the areas mentioned above, citizens, policy and decision-makers, and it will organise community-building and co-creation events while advocating for the cause of responsible robotics."

Officially launched in January, the initiative has conducted a number of surveys and interviews with members of the robotics industry.

Some of the issues raised include "labour force concerns" and the impact robots will have on human wellbeing.


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OdumegwuOjukwu:
According to one Nigerianists, this news is not as important as two policemen killed in the East.

Where are they thirty thousand security personnel to send to Zamfara?

One ebola case suddenly appearing in Nigeria would garner more international news and fear than the Ebola ravaging Guinea. Escalation is often more worrisome than the original cause of concern.

lilvicky68:
Omo

More like business men and customers..

National Youth Service Corpstomers, abi?

Yeah, can see how some could turn this thing into some sort of collaborative enterprise....

freddybonz:
The kind of nonsense u guys come online to type baffles me, what kind of pple are on nairaland pls

They're typing from the Troll house in Kumasi.

FalseProphet1:
There won't be war in Nigeria, Biafra will gain Independence but it would be peaceful.

This I have seen.

You're confusing those that believe in Biafra and want it with those that want to fight in the name of Biafra. The former are currently Nigerians by Nigerians for Biafra the later are people for war economy for Europe and France. The later don't want a peacefully attained Biafra such a thing is pointless. Bakassi gained nothing, Biafra will gain nothing, but Nigeria at war in addition to Central Africa at War, in addition to Ethiopia at war, in addition to Sudan at War, in addition to Mali at war, in addition to Burkina Fasso and the Sahell at war = a useful Africa to the West. And why not, Africans are useless to themselves yet they are occupying vast swaths of real-estate that the Arabs could use for Islamic experiments such as Caliphate and or Nurturing jihadism against the West; Asia could exploit for minerals and the West could exploit for minerals and war economy including Charity business .

hollah123:
A country without data base can't use it n besides Nigerians are too criminal minded to use it imagine wetin many people dey do loan apps

What do you mean Nigerians are too criminal minded, are you stupid or something? Actually, you're an idiot as are those with same sentiment as you on this particular slur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqJoWKDjObs

China builds world’s fastest programmable quantum computers that outperform ‘classical’ computers

Chinese scientists claim to have built the world’s fastest programmable quantum computers, which appear to crack problems that are currently not feasible for ”classical” non-quantum computers.

The researchers led by Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), said one of the quantum computing systems — Zuchongzhi 2.1 — is a million times more powerful than its nearest competitor, Google’s Sycamore.

Yahoo Finance
The Independent
China builds world’s fastest programmable quantum computers that outperform ‘classical’ computers
Vishwam Sankaran
27 October 2021, 11:57
A laser tests the optical waveguide of a chip for quantum computing in a lab at the technology company Q.ant in Stuttgart (AFP via Getty Images)
A laser tests the optical waveguide of a chip for quantum computing in a lab at the technology company Q.ant in Stuttgart (AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese scientists claim to have built the world’s fastest programmable quantum computers, which appear to crack problems that are currently not feasible for ”classical” non-quantum computers.

The researchers led by Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), said one of the quantum computing systems — Zuchongzhi 2.1 — is a million times more powerful than its nearest competitor, Google’s Sycamore.


Their programmable superconducting quantum computer, named after a 5th-century mathematician, is 10 million times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer, the scientists said.

Besides, their photonic quantum computer based on light — Jiuzhang 2 — can carry out calculations 100 trillion times faster than the world’s fastest existing supercomputer, the physicists noted in another study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters on Monday.

In conventional computers, the most basic unit of information is a bit, and data is fundamentally stored in binary codes of 1s and 0s. On the other hand, quantum computers make use of the special properties of the smallest particles in the universe which can exist in multiple states — as zeros and ones at the same time, or in any position between.

This flexibility of quantum particles allows for quantum bits, or qubits, using which many different calculations can be performed simultaneously, scientists said.
While there are many approaches to achieve quantum computing, the Chinese team has built two different systems — one is the light-based photonic quantum computers, and the other is a superconducting quantum computer that needs to be kept at very low temperatures to work efficiently.

In photonic quantum computers, light’s energy units, the photons, are manipulated with mirrors, beam splitters, and phase shifters, while in the latter the state of the qubits is manipulated using an electromagnetic field.

These manipulations execute operations on the photons similar to adding ones and zeroes in classical computers, and single-photon detectors help read what changes the photons have undergone.

The common theme in both these types of quantum computers is that they accept multiple quantum states as inputs, have the states travel through a circuit, and deliver multiple states as output.

For instance, in photonic quantum computers, the scientists said, single photons arrive as input in parallel to an optical circuit in which components like beam splitters cause the photons to interfere, causing their states to change, and they emerge from multiple output ports.

In experiments, the scientists used the two quantum computers to calculate the probability that a certain input configuration may lead to a particular output configuration.

Since these circuits have tens of inputs and outputs, such probability calculations, scientists say, are infeasible for classical computers.

But in both photonic and superconducting quantum computers, they say the quantum nature of these systems helps increase the number of parallel computations that can happen, making such probability calculations feasible.

While these machines are not expected to completely replace classical computers, they can carry out specific complex calculations for short periods of time.

Pan and his team showed that for their system which has 1043 possible outcomes, their photonic quantum computer can sample the output 1024 times faster than a classical supercomputer – an upgrade from the team’s December result of 1014 times faster operation.

The scientists also claim that their sampling calculation using their superconducting quantum computer is about 1,000 times more difficult to do on a classical computer.

“We estimate that the sampling task finished by Zuchongzhi in about 1.2 h [hours] will take the most powerful supercomputer at least 8 yr [years],” the scientists wrote in the study.

Barry Sanders, director of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary in Canada, who was unrelated to the study, said in a linked commentary that the two
Yahoo Finance
The Independent
China builds world’s fastest programmable quantum computers that outperform ‘classical’ computers
Vishwam Sankaran
27 October 2021, 11:57
A laser tests the optical waveguide of a chip for quantum computing in a lab at the technology company Q.ant in Stuttgart (AFP via Getty Images)
A laser tests the optical waveguide of a chip for quantum computing in a lab at the technology company Q.ant in Stuttgart (AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese scientists claim to have built the world’s fastest programmable quantum computers, which appear to crack problems that are currently not feasible for ”classical” non-quantum computers.

The researchers led by Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), said one of the quantum computing systems — Zuchongzhi 2.1 — is a million times more powerful than its nearest competitor, Google’s Sycamore.


Their programmable superconducting quantum computer, named after a 5th-century mathematician, is 10 million times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer, the scientists said.

Besides, their photonic quantum computer based on light — Jiuzhang 2 — can carry out calculations 100 trillion times faster than the world’s fastest existing supercomputer, the physicists noted in another study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters on Monday.

In conventional computers, the most basic unit of information is a bit, and data is fundamentally stored in binary codes of 1s and 0s. On the other hand, quantum computers make use of the special properties of the smallest particles in the universe which can exist in multiple states — as zeros and ones at the same time, or in any position between.

This flexibility of quantum particles allows for quantum bits, or qubits, using which many different calculations can be performed simultaneously, scientists said.




While there are many approaches to achieve quantum computing, the Chinese team has built two different systems — one is the light-based photonic quantum computers, and the other is a superconducting quantum computer that needs to be kept at very low temperatures to work efficiently.

In photonic quantum computers, light’s energy units, the photons, are manipulated with mirrors, beam splitters, and phase shifters, while in the latter the state of the qubits is manipulated using an electromagnetic field.

These manipulations execute operations on the photons similar to adding ones and zeroes in classical computers, and single-photon detectors help read what changes the photons have undergone.

The common theme in both these types of quantum computers is that they accept multiple quantum states as inputs, have the states travel through a circuit, and deliver multiple states as output.

For instance, in photonic quantum computers, the scientists said, single photons arrive as input in parallel to an optical circuit in which components like beam splitters cause the photons to interfere, causing their states to change, and they emerge from multiple output ports.

In experiments, the scientists used the two quantum computers to calculate the probability that a certain input configuration may lead to a particular output configuration.

Since these circuits have tens of inputs and outputs, such probability calculations, scientists say, are infeasible for classical computers.

But in both photonic and superconducting quantum computers, they say the quantum nature of these systems helps increase the number of parallel computations that can happen, making such probability calculations feasible.

While these machines are not expected to completely replace classical computers, they can carry out specific complex calculations for short periods of time.

Pan and his team showed that for their system which has 1043 possible outcomes, their photonic quantum computer can sample the output 1024 times faster than a classical supercomputer – an upgrade from the team’s December result of 1014 times faster operation.

The scientists also claim that their sampling calculation using their superconducting quantum computer is about 1,000 times more difficult to do on a classical computer.

“We estimate that the sampling task finished by Zuchongzhi in about 1.2 h [hours] will take the most powerful supercomputer at least 8 yr [years],” the scientists wrote in the study.

Barry Sanders, director of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary in Canada, who was unrelated to the study, said in a linked commentary that the two experimental quantum computers “tackle the most complex problems yet”.

“This indicates that our research has entered its second stage to start realising fault-tolerating quantum computing and near-term applications such as quantum machine learning and quantum chemistry,” the study’s co-author Zhu Xiaobo told Chinese state media.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-builds-world-first-programmable-073103110.html

Seems to me Nigeria is always investing on roads without comparative benefits let alone advantages. Just empirically it seems as if Nigeria has invested more on roads, in the entire history of Nigeria, than on anything else including on Electricity or even defense. Wouldn't it serve Nigeria best in the long run to either lay down concrete roads or rail lines? Lets quit looking to benefit from something in our lifetime or time in the limelight and be guided by long term planning. Eventually posterity will reward the relevant individuals.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCrTVzzKvA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHn_T0rrWfI

helinues:
Toh

Northern Nigeria with little technology development but see as how they are good in Bomb making technology

Not just them, it's a general African problem -we're very good at destructive things; see how efficient, relentless and successful the various armed groups have been at waging war against the various African national governments up and down the continent. When they get to power they can do no better since they lack the adult ability to create, build, develop and maintain things, they only have the childlike capacity to destroy.

A problem blacks suffer from is the inability to accept central authority unless that authority is from another race. The statement is simple and deliberately so in order to not loose the central thrust of this observation. This inability to accept or accommodate some current leadership or authority for the successful outcome of future goals can be seen in why the black world, for want of a better term, despise Nigeria and Nigerians; why Democratic processes is problematic in Africa; , why there's a porosity of black run conglomerates; why just as Bokoharam broke up into factions, Ipob will do the same - blacks are automatically antagonistic towards the leadership of other blacks in an organiseation but want to be leaders instead in that organisation even when the lack of their capacity to do so is not only obvious to all but obvious to themselves. They only settle down,follow orders and work hard for the achievement of the goal when whites or none blacks are in charge. Blacks and the rest of the world does not want blacks in positions of power and influence, whether in organizations, groups, spots, politics or as a Nations.

Actually i find this problem to be more pervasive among blacks abroad but not so much in Nigeria, which is one of many reasons Nigeria fascinates me so and fills me with hope. But we suffer from some of it too.

Hezzyluv:
Getting him outta prison will drastically reduce the tension from southeast

What of Convention?

Delta Militant kidnappings and subsequent amnesty programs are examples…

Mahmud Jega was kind to the British.

tobstarizhia:
Nigerian girls cannot try such a thing. They are gold digging hoes. That's why I like foreign girls.

or maybe you like foreign girls because you're a cheap guy who cant handle the financial demands of marrying or keeping a Nigerian woman or girl.

Since Nigeria has largely managed to hold on to certain traditional values such as dowries, in one form or another, some broke-assed Nigerian men find love with throw-away foreign girls whom they don't have to respect by honoring the foreign girls family. Often they profile and pick on repulsive white or Asian women rejected by their society.