故事：Girl power. 'Essex girl' 。‘quantum advantage’ / ‘quantum supremacy’「量子優越性」
https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/4007789309231846Girl power - Wikipedia
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Girl power (sometimes spelled grrrl power) is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, confidence and strength. The slogan's invention is credited to US punk band Bikini Kill, who published a zine called Girl Power in 1991.
女孩力量，原來的意思指一般女性的動力。
後來英國女子演唱組合辣妹合唱團崛起，當中的成員Melanie C在自己的身上刺青上「女力」，並為這個詞語帶入「女性的正面形象」這個新意思
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'Essex girl' 的故事，它與 University of Essex 沒直接關係、下圖為該校Logo.
'Essex girl' removed from dictionary after campaigners claim term is offensive
It will not appear in future editions of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for foreign language students.
Saturday 5 December 2020 10:52, UK
ESSEX
Image:The Essex Girls Liberation Front has been campaigning to stop use of the term for years
The term "Essex girl" has been removed from the dictionary after a long-standing campaign by women from the county.
Oxford University Press (OUP) previously defined "Essex girl" as: "A name used especially in jokes to refer to a type of young woman who is not intelligent, dresses badly, talks in a loud and ugly way and is very willing to have sex."
But it has agreed to remove the term from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, which is used to teach foreign language students English, after campaign group The Essex Girls Liberation Front branded it "very offensive".
The term will stay in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), however, because its publishers claim it is a "historical dictionary", in which "nothing is ever taken out".
The OED's definition acknowledges the stereotype as "derogatory" and "contemptuous", saying it is used to describe a "type of young woman, supposedly found in and around Essex, and variously characterised as unintelligent, promiscuous and materialistic".
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Author Syd Moore started the campaign after referencing the term at an International Women's Day conference.
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'Essex girl' removed from dictionary after campaigners claim term is offensive
It will not appear in future editions of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for foreign language students.
Saturday 5 December 2020 10:52, UK
ESSEX
Image:The Essex Girls Liberation Front has been campaigning to stop use of the term for yearsThe term "Essex girl" has been removed from the dictionary after a long-standing campaign by women from the county.
Oxford University Press (OUP) previously defined "Essex girl" as: "A name used especially in jokes to refer to a type of young woman who is not intelligent, dresses badly, talks in a loud and ugly way and is very willing to have sex."
But it has agreed to remove the term from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, which is used to teach foreign language students English, after campaign group The Essex Girls Liberation Front branded it "very offensive".
The term will stay in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), however, because its publishers claim it is a "historical dictionary", in which "nothing is ever taken out".
The OED's definition acknowledges the stereotype as "derogatory" and "contemptuous", saying it is used to describe a "type of young woman, supposedly found in and around Essex, and variously characterised as unintelligent, promiscuous and materialistic".
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Author Syd Moore started the campaign after referencing the term at an International Women's Day conference.
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Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
Teams at both academic and corporate laboratories have been vying to demonstrate quantum advantage (a term that has now largely replaced the earlier ‘quantum supremacy’).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03434-7
新聞中國大陸發表量子電腦「九章」的，實驗顯示，當求解 5000 萬個樣本的高斯玻色取樣時，「九章」僅需要 200 秒，而日本超級電腦「富岳」需要 6 億年，比美國公司 Google 去年推出的 53 個量子比特電腦「懸鈴木」，快了 100 億倍。
新華社稱，該一突破確立中國成為全球第二個實現「量子優越性」的國家。
「九章」是由中國科學技術大學潘建偉、陸朝陽等組成的研究團隊，與中科院上海微系統所、中國國家並行計算機工程技術研究中心合作，建構出 76 個光子的量子計算原型機。按照官方說法，這項突破歷經 20 年，主要攻克高品質光子源、高精度鎖相、規模化干涉三大技術難題。
「九章」之名，是用以紀念中國古代最早的數學專著《九章算術》。
新華社稱，此一成果使中國成功達到量子計算研究的第一個里程碑：量子計算優越性並指相關論文於 12 月 4 日，線上發表於國際學術期刊《科學》上。
研究團隊指出，與通用計算機相比，九章還只是「單項冠軍」，但其超強算力，在圖論、機器學習、量子化學等領域具有潛在應用價值，將是後續發展的重要方向。
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