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Comment: This is an example of a classic Wikipedia feature. While Effective_accelerationism might be notable (it has a page), that does not mean that the originator is. There has to be significant coverage of him, and what he has done as against just being outed by Forbes. Note that none of the rest of his career would satisfy any of the notability criteria. Ldm1954 (talk) 04:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Guillaume Verdon is an entrepreneur, theoretical physicist, quantum computing researcher, and philosophical writer.
Education
Verdon attended McGill University as an undergraduate and graduated with honors with a double major in Mathematics & Physics.[2] He attended University of Waterloo for graduate studies where he completed Master's work in 2017[3] at the Institute for Quantum Computing and continued with Achim Kempf as his PhD supervisor.[1] He presented papers as a Guest Speaker at NASA's 2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing conference.[2][4]
Career
Verdon was the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Everettian Technologies,[5] an early Canadian start-up focused on Quantum machine learning solutions. He also had a side venture into NFTs related to quantum physics/information which provided capital for his later startup Extropic AI.[6][7] Verdon has worked at Alphabet & Google and had primary responsibility for theoretical work on the team that introduced the TensorFlow Quantum library for quantum machine learning.[8][9] During his time at Google X Verdon pioneered and worked on Quantum Graph Neural Networks,[10] quantum Magnetoencephalography,[11] and Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models.[12] He has several patents[13] with Google X covering quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and signal processing.
Verdon is now working at a startup he founded in 2022, Extropic AI.[14][15] The company recently announced the completion of a $14.1 million seed round.[16][6] Extropic AI was initially operating in stealth-mode and is focused on building chips specifically intended for running LLMs according to Verdon a "type of physics-based computer that is not quantum".[6][17]
Verdon writing under the pseudonym BasedBeffJezos was one of the co-founders of the effective acceleration (e/acc) movement. The origin of the movement can be traced back to a May 2022 newsletter published by him and 3 other authors.[18][19][20]
In its coverage of the movement Forbes outed Verdon as the author behind his pseudonymous account.[6][15]
Comment: This is an example of a classic Wikipedia feature. While Effective_accelerationism might be notable (it has a page), that does not mean that the originator is. There has to be significant coverage of him, and what he has done as against just being outed by Forbes. Note that none of the rest of his career would satisfy any of the notability criteria. Ldm1954 (talk) 04:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)