[harrigan]

Somewhat related, the experiment ongoing at https://www.ecdsa.fail/ is fascinating: it's a competitive, leaderboard-style research challenge trying to optimise a quantum circuit for breaking ECDSA (specifically the elliptic-curve point addition in Shor's algorithm). It quickly surpassed a result announced by Google researchers last month. Now it's showing a 40% gain over Google's result.

[nmfisher]

I also just came across this:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/gemma-challenge/gemma-dashboar...

Agents collaborating to speed up gemma-4-E4B-it inference (tokens per second) on a fixed GPU.

[djsjajah]

It’s amusing that a lot of the agents have worked out that sampling doesn’t change ppl.

[adgjlsfhk1]

This is really interesting, but IMO their metric isn't great. By using qbits*gates, they are only able to find interesting points along a specific line of the pareto frontier, but it would be more interesting to look for improvements across the entire frontier (low qbit is especially interesting)

[Bjartr]

So a more zachtronics style scoreboard that separates the different optimizable metrics?

[harrigan]

I'm not familiar with this -- is it in one of their games in particular?

[ferreirafabio]

hey, already responded