Everything about G-code

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: G-codeA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubitInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Foundations of CryptographyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code RecognitionCited 9,945 times
5. Go sideways: Canned cycleA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: STEP-NCA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition

  Y. LeCun, B. Boser, J. S. Denker · 1989 · Neural Computation · 9,945 citations

• First-principles simulation: ideas, illustrations and the CASTEP code

  M D Segall, Philip J D Lindan, M J Probert · 2002 · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter · 9,228 citations

• A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals

  J. C. ZADOKS, T. T. CHANG, C. F. KONZAK · 1974 · Weed Research · 8,222 citations

• VASPKIT: A user-friendly interface facilitating high-throughput computing and analysis using VASP code

  Vei Wang, Nan Xu, Jin-Cheng Liu · 2021 · Computer Physics Communications · 8,104 citations

• Translating the Histone Code

  Thomas Jenuwein, C. David Allis · 2001 · Science · 7,886 citations

• BoltzTraP. A code for calculating band-structure dependent quantities

  Georg K.H. Madsen, David J. Singh · 2006 · Computer Physics Communications · 6,200 citations

• The cosmological simulation code gadget-2

  Volker Springel · 2005 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 5,952 citations

• Space-time codes for high data rate wireless communication: performance criterion and code construction

  V. Tarokh, N. Seshadri, A.R. Calderbank · 1998 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,532 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

  Google Quantum AI, Rajeev Acharya, Igor Aleiner · 2023 · Nature · 1,113 citations

• Competition-level code generation with AlphaCode

  Yujia Li, David Choi, Junyoung Chung · 2022 · Science · 974 citations

• Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

  Google Quantum AI and Collaborators, Rajeev Acharya, Dmitry A. Abanin · 2024 · Nature · 890 citations

• Realizing repeated quantum error correction in a distance-three surface code

  Sebastian Krinner, Nathan Lacroix, Ants Remm · 2022 · Nature · 711 citations

• Quantum logic with spin qubits crossing the surface code threshold

  Xiao Xue, Maximilian Russ, Nodar Samkharadze · 2022 · Nature · 534 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Foundations of CryptographyOded Goldreich · 2001
• Code-switchingPenelope Gardner-Chloros · 2009
• MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishingJoseph Gibaldi · 1998
• 📕The Mercantile Agency directory (red book)Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.) · 1928
• Making, breaking codesPaul B. Garrett · 2001
• 📕Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding TheoryGaetan Bisson, Irene Bouw · 2021
• 📕O. A. C. Review Volume 32 Issue 4, December 1919Ontario Agricultural College · 1919
• N-Force PresentsN-Force {Magazine} · 1992

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