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Bellwether or not Frank finally bought the S&P 500 Index. Then turns on tube.

 

Transforming Product Development with the Cloud - AWS Online Tech Talks

Design thinking...

Presenter spends a few minutes on "working backwards from the customer"

With process of two Pizza teams and micro service

architecture ... "every idea at Amazon that

gets approved large or small is based on

a paper

we call them six pagers or narratives

and because the expectation that all of

these ideas start with a customer need

we call the process working backwards

from the customer this includes AWS

itself a paper that was created by now

CEO of AWS Andy Jesse but also Amazon

Prime and every one of the 125 plus

cloud services that AWS now offers

most of the ideas start out with a press

release that is written as a leap into

the future and imagine how you want a

customer to feel and what you want them

to say when they experience the product

when you write the press release you

imagine that your customer is going to

read it it's a one-page narrative

explaining your vision using customer

centric language it's also important

that it is in plain English without any

internal jargon the next step is

building a frequently asked questions or

FAQ that accompanies the press release

the FAQ has two sections one for the

customer and one for the internal

stakeholders you need to ask the hard

questions even ones you may not have an

answer to yet often the press release is

shared and work first in order to

understand the questions that come up

from reading it often a visual mock-up

or user interaction guide will be part

of this early review and feedback

process but the fidelity should match ..."

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Until the quantum thing comes along - this is a test

Azure Quantum drives data storage improvements https://t.co/ywLiqKjEbO via @VentureBeat

— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) November 16, 2021

One among the many takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic an awareness that industries needed to take another look at supply-chain optimization. It may not be quite up there with security, but supply-chain optimization is near top of mind in many of today’s digital transformation undertakings.

Logistics and optimization are oft-cited uses of quantum computing. Though it is still a trickle, there are growing indications quantum algorithms are being applied to research in such supply-chain optimization. 

These are often quantum-inspired efforts, meaning they reap the benefit of research in quantum simulation, but don’t rely on working with actual quantum computers to work.

An example comes by way of Microsoft, which is using its own quantum software to optimize storage – that is to increase capacity and predictability -- on its Azure cloud. You can read about it on VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/15/azure-quantum-drives-data-storage-improvements/

Computer storage management turns out to be a useful use quantum-inspired algorithms, to hear in Microsoft’s telling, and certainly they are well versed in cloud hyperscaling. Some of this is outlined in a Microsoft blog. 

But the company said its QIO optimization solvers can work on other domains, and were joined by geospatial and logistics services system mainstay Trimble in the announcement. Trimble said it is using Azure Quantum QIO to i.d. the best routes for vehicle fleets,” ensuring fewer trucks run empty, and maximizing operating load for each trip.” Useful trait, that. 

When it comes to quantum-inspired algorithms on classic computers – it will just have to do, in the words of Sammy Cahn’s immortal song, until the quantum computing thing comes along.

Quantum and "quantum-inspired" algorithms for numerical analysis

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