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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

Xconomy

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Origin Code Academy Rolls Out Free Programming Intro Course Online

socalTECH

San Diego-based "code school" Origin Code Academy said this morning that it has rolled out a new, online-only, free course on programming and the basics of writing code.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We In a recently published paper, Horvitz and Stanford computer science PhD student Ethan Fast analyzed the last 30 years of articles about artificial intelligence in the New York Times.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. I took the night train that night to London to try and hold investors firm. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.