Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond by @JeffDean via @googleai

Google has a massive impact on the tools, applications and research that help steer the data science community. As with prior years, this retrospective by Jeff Dean is amazing in its scope. Includes useful summaries, screenshots, videos and linked references throughout.

This is just golden and everyone really needs to read this. You get some many ideas and learn a great deal from this too.

Quantum Computing Holds Promise for Banks, Executives Say by @SCastellWSJ via @WSJ

“In the universe of industries where there is a potential quantum advantage, you could argue that finance has got the shortest path to impact,” says Jeremy Glick, head of research-and-development engineering at Goldman Sachs. But first, we need to build hardware that doesn’t exist yet, and then we need to come up with a really good idea on how to use it.

I love the promise of this and can't wait to see it more widely used - the benefits will be massive and give a great advantage to those companies who utilise it fully.

SLIDESHOW: 5 technologies that will reshape business and society by David Weldon via @InfoMgmt

Within the next five years, blockchain, AI, lattice cryptography and quantum computing will revolutionise software development and its impact, says IBM Research’s global labs.

There are some really exciting developments in this slideshow - I'm particularly looking forward to lattice cryptography.

Quantum Machine Learning: An Overview by Reena Shaw via @kdnuggets

Quantum Machine Learning (Quantum ML) is the interdisciplinary area combining Quantum Physics and Machine Learning(ML). It is a symbiotic association- leveraging the power of Quantum Computing to produce quantum versions of ML algorithms, and applying classical ML algorithms to analyse quantum systems. Read this article for an introduction to Quantum ML.

This sounds great and very powerful although you definitely need the right skillset to benefit from this.

** Please note this is a two page article

A Startup Uses Quantum Computing to Boost Machine Learning by Will Knight via @techreview

A company in California just proved that an exotic and potentially game-changing kind of computer can be used to perform a common form of machine learning.

I think that quantum computing is an interesting area for expansion in the hardware market and could give some really big advantages to the through rate of computations for ML, AI and anything else.

What IT Managers Should Know about Quantum Computing by Richard Hackathorn via @hackernoon

This article is directed to analytic-mature technology-savvy managers who deal with corporate IT infrastructure and strategy. The article explains quantum computing in terms relevant to IT managers and suggests future business opportunities to exploit this new technology.

I love this and it is very good at giving examples that you can relate to.

D-WAVE quantum computers story on the BBC News website

This BBC News article by Paul Rincon their Science Editor discusses Canadian company D-WAVE and their computers which they claim are quantum computers. There are a lot of sceptical people out there that want to see it proven, but there have been some notable buyers for their computers such as Google and NASA.

I think I'm with the sceptics as I's like to see a bit more proof that it works.