Random musings

Yesterday attended a conference organized by the  High Commission of India  about  "Doing business with Indian States: Opportunities and the way forward" .  In my circles I have met many people who are gung ho about the changes in the Indian Government's approach towards investors. They speak of the improved access to the decision makers and a certain sense of speed and urgency not seen before. I have heard some of the State Chief Ministers speaking in Singapore and the excitement is visible and generally I think these outreach efforts are steps in the right direction. Jawed Ashraf, the Indian High Commissioner's  welcome remark was an articulate summary of the India story. Beyond economics, he spoke of social sectors, which is a conspicuous addition to the usual economic focus of such events. Ashraf briefly commented on the Federal structure of India and highlighted the critical role of states wrt the execution of projects and how post liberalization, the S

My first brush with Quantum computing was yesterday thanks to an invitation by  Claus Nehmzow  to the BP event on Quantum Computing (QC). The event consisted of 3 presentations, followed by a panel discussion. Before the event my friend  Avishek Ghosh  gave a brief primer on what Quantum computing is. The key takeaways from that discussion was: 1.       QC is a new way of computing that relies on probabilistic determination and massive parallel computing.  2.       It moves away from the Binary states of the bits in the classical computers to the quantum states of qubits.  (This is something that I have not completely understood. The challenges of the cat being alive and the dead at the same time is still very perplexing for me :D) 3.       While the QC approach is a very new way to represent and compute data, the physical environment is very challenging and often require near absolute zero temperatures. Slight changes in the physical environments can impact the data and t