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[govindhtech]

Alabama Annealing Quantum Computing With D-Wave, Davidson

Quantum Computing D-Wave Annealing

D-Wave, Davidson Technologies, is installing Alabama's first on-site annealing quantum computer.

Modern U.S. IT business Davidson Technologies believes in purpose.A D-Wave Advantage2 annealing quantum computer manufactured at Davidson's headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, was installed by the Department of Defence and aerospace customers and D-Wave Quantum. With the installation nearing completion, the system is undergoing final calibration and readiness testing.

The system's assembly and installation represents a turning point in D-Wave and Davidson's relationship and positions Alabama as a key quantum infrastructure provider. The Advantage2 system, the state's first on-premises annealing quantum computer, will enable quantum optimisation applications for mission-critical challenges like national security. The machine will eventually be stored in a secure quantum computing facility for important tasks.

A ceremonial VIP ribbon-cutting will honour the milestone at Davidson's headquarters on April 23. Exclusive unveiling with state and federal officials and executives from both businesses.

Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, said Davidson has used cutting-edge technology to defend the nation. Davidson may study and design actual quantum applications, notably in optimisation for the US government's most difficult difficulties, and then apply them safely by establishing an Advantage2 system.

Davidson President & CEO Dale Moore said having the future Advantage2 system on-site shows its commitment to national security innovation. We believe this milestone represents a paradigm shift in how quantum technology may be utilised, analysed, and used to fast, accurate, and scaled defensive operations.

This exhibit follows years of technical collaboration between the two companies. Davidson studies hybrid quantum-classical systems for autonomous system coordination, space asset management, and multi-domain operational optimisation. The approach is also intended to spark future cooperation research with university institutions, government labs, and defence groups.

Mayor Tommy Battle said Huntsville will soon house Alabama's first quantum computer, owing to Davidson and D-Wave, in addition to premier research colleges and cutting-edge enterprises. Our city leads the area in offering cutting-edge technological solutions for government, military, and high-tech industry to this system.

Alabama federal officials supported the milestone due to its military innovation and growing technological value.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville stated I emphasise giving military the newest technologies to execute tasks. An advanced quantum computing system at Davidson in Huntsville will make Alabama a leader in quantum applications that benefit national security in space operations, missile defence, and logistics.

U.S. Senator Katie Britt thinks Alabama is vital to military preparedness and defence industrial base upgrading. A quantum computing system in Huntsville has enabled revolutionary military and national security advancements. Alabama leads quantum application research and workforce training with this strategy.

Next Steps

The D-Wave Advantage2 system will be calibrated and tested in the coming weeks. Davidson and D-Wave will operationalise the system in accordance with national security standards and study further defence sector initiatives and pilot projects when it is done.

[the-d-wave]

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[mmmthornton]

Big fan of the part in Dungeon Meshi when the gang is beset by dopplegangers and they try to reason out who the fakes are if they seem More Attractive (to appeal to the other party members) except it doesn't work for Senshi because the two other guys in the party already think he's Maximum Sexy.

[saentorine]

Everyone talks about Beast's transformation being the biggest downgrade ever, but Snow White traded a platonic polycule of seven men with diamond mine money for a dude who lowkey assaulted her in her sleep.

[caracello]

i don't know why this keeps happening but genuinely henchmen/subordinates with unrequited crushes is maybe my favorite character type ever i need 10 million of them.

[paradoxius]

RPG Idea

A typical old-school logistics-focused get-treasure-from-dungeon game, except it really puts its money where its mouth is about combat being an undesirable last resort because those killed in battle rise as undead if not given proper burials, and (just as in real life) digging one grave takes eight man-hours of labor.

[harrenhalyuri]

one more thing on moby dick. i'm drawing a lot of inspo for the sixth house since my take on them is very... maritime put it mildly lol

before the novel I already had this idea of them being part of the whale trade in the sea of ghosts (plus beached whales that wash up on vvardenfell being revered and saving entire villages from starvation during famine times etc). whale bones being used for the decoration etc

but I hadn't considered the commodity factor yet. harvesting and refining whale blubber for fuel (oil lamps! I had them using torches and candles before lol) + soap + lubricant

the latter being EXTREMELY important for the dwemer industry - essentially I'm just going to go with the idea that this is one of the things they had to import from the surface because there was no underground substitute nor a synthetic version

so this further expands their trade relationship and provides an explanation as to why the sixth house had super advanced naval tech that no one else had - because the dwemer needed them 👍

[elfrootlover420]

thought about my inky no longer able to wield two daggers post tresspasser :(

[skull-bearer]

Chapters: 18/? Fandom: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dalamar the Dark/Raistlin Majere, Caramon Majere/Tika Waylan Majere, Goldmoon/Riverwind (Dragonlance) Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar the Dark, Caramon Majere, Lemuel (Dragonlance), Horkin (Dragonlance), Scrounger (Dragonlance), Tanis Half-Elven, Flint Fireforge, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Goldmoon (Dragonlance), Riverwind (Dragonlance), Tika Waylan Majere, Fizban (Dragonlance), Sturm Brightblade, Laurana Kanan, Gilthanas Kanan, you know the crew, Fistandantilus (Dragonlance) Additional Tags: Autumn Twilight AU, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, War of the Lance, Supportive Relationship, Sleepy Cuddles, Investigations, Gods Being Dicks, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Battle, Re-write, Draconians, Canon-Typical Violence, Intercrural Sex, Mystery, Missing Persons, Self-righteous dipshits, Fizban's very special brand of fuckery Series: Part 6 of Ivory, Blood and Ebony Summary:

Raistlin and Dalamar return to Solace, just in time for the War of the Lance.

Chapter 18: Of Trust. Trust is not always deserved. Bupu and Raistlin and the dragon.

[mirendils]

hey adam from Adam and Eve. wtf are you doing here

one of the little fic quirks that makes me laugh every time is when authors forget they’re writing in a universe that doesn’t have Christianity and the characters still use those curses

[nolonger-roses]

I just know that at least one time each bilbo and thorin proposed to each other in the quest

Of course they don't know this because how could thorin know that giving an specific flower to bilbo meant he was in love with him or that asking to go for a walk in a green field was a traditional form of beggining courtship

But it was when bilbo asked thorin to show him how to engrave or to braid his longer hair that all the dwaves looked over them with silly looks (especially kili and fili)

A very confused bilbo with a red tomato king by his side was really funny, except for gandalf who was tired of their bs

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[thatonekillian]

Beauty and the Beast Bagginshield

I’m thinking of doing an AU/canon divergence of Bagginshield with the core of Beauty and The Beast.

Thorin/the line of Durin have been cursed to become a monster and the other lonely mountain dwarves turn more and more into gold. Otherwise the story is basically the same as the books/movies.

Now I’m thinking of situations that might differ from the original story due to their situation. Like Beorn could potentially be acting different towards these “Monsters” instead of “just Dwaves”.

Btw. Their goal is to “find a treasure worth more than the Arkenstone” instead of “steal the Arkenstone/reclaim the Lonely Mountain”.

What do you guys think?

[dunmeshistash]

Do we know anything about dwarven technology and/or magic? They are said to have the lowest magical potential, but I remember a picture of dwaves using a stationary phone of some kind and it seemed like there was an undine in one of the mechanisms and a dwarf having ancient magic markings in daydream portraits. They seem to have a lot of technology and magic things going on, but I can't find any info on it.

We only see a little bit of it, I was also wondering about what seems like magic tattoos in the dwarf page, perhaps is another type of tattoo instead? Or maybe it has to do with why that dwarf has a strange look on his face

The other one with similar head tattoos has half of his body burnt

Could be a warrior thing? I don't think it's the same as the magic ones, they canonically have the lowest mana reserve so I doubt they can use much magic if at all?

The tech they use seem to have to do with the ancient war when apparently there was a tech boom, but most of it apparently was buried along with dungeons.

We only see these important guys messing with something similar

[bitethedevil]

So what is up with Korilla? Is she a voluntary servant of Raphael's or involuntary [due to him having her sister]? If you catch Korilla spying on you & manage to speak to her, she sounds brainwashed. What is it R wants from the two sisters?

Hope and Korrilla

I'm so glad you asked! Because I now have a little theory on it. I've started reading Brimstone Angels by Erin M. Evans (who is also a former editor for Wizards of the Coast) because it was recommended to me by @hellish-kiss (thank you <3). I'm only on the first book. I like it so far and there is a bunch of devil and cambion stuff in there.

In her books, cambions and devils have a tendency to collect 'sets' of warlocks. It's focused a lot on bloodlines, so a devil would collect warlocks of interesting bloodlines or siblings, and it's this huge thing in the books.

It made me wonder if that could be the thing with Hope and Korrilla. They could be the descendants of someone interesting, or it could just be that Raphael wants to have both of them because they are siblings.

Raphael is obviously more obsessed with Hope, but I think he might have hoped (ha-ha) from the start to get both of them. In a way it makes perfect sense. It's easier to control people when one of their family members might be in trouble too if you rebel against them.

Also...

Hope is a life domain cleric. The obvious deity would be Moradin, who is a lawful good god of dwaves, but we aren't really told. Keep that in mind for now.

Korrilla says that she had an "old dwarven master" who "beat her and fed her scraps" and then follows that up with "better to feast in the Hells than go begging to the Heavens".

Interestingly, it's said that Moradin's clerics are drawn from family lines, which mean that both Korrilla and Hope might have been Moradin clerics before. He is also described as such:

"He was gruff, stern and virtually incapable of compromise, tirelessly and unflinchingly defending his people, their values, and his principles of good and law. While a good heart was necessary for his acceptance, only quality results earned his approval."

What if Moradin is who Korrilla refers to as her old master? He does sound like someone who really demands a lot from his clerics, and Korrilla might've never been enough for him, which would make one bitter and start looking elsewhere. It would also further make her unable to understand why her sister won't give in, because she sees it as hopeless because Moradin doesn't do shit for them (and can't do shit when they are both in the Hells), but Raphael does.

I think Korrilla really does like working for Raphael, and from Raphael's point of view, they are both the perfect targets. Because clerics of Moradin is a bloodline thing, Korrilla and Hope might have been groomed from the start of their lives to follow a someone who is hard to please and gives little in return, and people like that make excellent employees. Not to mention the irony of Hope's name and the fact that he gets to corrupt two clerics. Win-win-win.

Korrilla might sound brainwashed, but if you have gone your entire life and "begged for scraps in the Heavens", the alternative that Raphael has given them is a hundred times better, because he does actually give her something. Even Raphael says somewhere in one of his books that he has barely ever been forced to punish Korrilla because she is just a model warlock and good at listening.

(Thank you for the ask <3 And good timing. I actually wanted to make a post about this eventually.)

[chaoticgoodthief]

Fic Finding Assistance needed

Ok, so I'm looking for a fic that, to my ever-lasting shame, I either did not bookmark or somehow managed to accidently delete the bookmark of. I've tried multiple times to find it, but for the life of me have not had any luck doing so.

Ok so first of all it's definately set in the LoTR/Hobbit, an au where Thorin (and by proxy, the rest of the company) survive. But the point is not focused on them or how they survived.

The point is instead focused on afterward, with Hobbiton being attacked and Bilbo leading a group of survivors to Erebor to seek a new home.

Important distictions of the fic that I remember

Bilbo gains the epithet Bullroarer after mounting and riding a bull to lead the hobbits out of the fight

He names the bull "Gandalf", leading to a very short and humorous miscommunication later on

Sam and Frodo are there, but quite young

Everyone of the dwarves except Thorin think Bilbo is dead for a good portion of time

The dwarves build Bilbo (and the other hobbits) new home and were (lightly) strongarmed into making them hobbit hole shaped despite that being less structually sound

Cute culture merge at the end with hobbits learning to defend themselves as part of the "new polite", dwaves making sure hobbits were safe and comfortable during the winter, and hobbits giving dwarves flowers

If anyone knows the name of this fic or has a link to it, please tell me. I would love to read it again and bookmark it properly this time. Thank you.

Edit: thank you all for your help! It seems unfortunately, the fic was either deleted or otherwise removed/changed, but its name was "there was one they could follow (one they could call thain)". Thank you all again!