Talk:Guillaume Verdon

Discussion on notability

Its unlcear why this person is not considered notable from both an e/acc perspective, but even more so for their involvement and pioneering of the Quantum Machine Learning field . This person is one of the original creators of the Tensorflow Quantum package , an add-on to the well known Deep Learning library Tensorflow.

This person has several impactful scientific publications in quantum information science and quantum machine learning. Additionally they have several patents on quantum computing related technology.

Xirtam Esrevni (talk) 07:38, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

• The reviewer also sadly ignored (or dismissed) that the first non-trivial coverage of him by Business Insider using his pseudonym pre-dated his outing by Forbes. When Forbes outed him, his background in computing and computer science was deeply relevant to his credibility, they might reasonably have noted and mocked if he was an uneducated janitor or kid in his mom's basement, but he had substantial work history and research contributions relevant to the e/acc movement & its focus on advancing technological innovation, especially in computing. This was enough for Business Insider again to cover and other outlets like CNBC, not juat his outing but the movement & his background that made it newsworthy. The declined submission is clear that the standards that are purported to apply for general notability (multiple, including independent, instances of coverage by established and reliable sources) are by some subjective judgment insufficient arbitrarily. Two of the above references are already in the article. I'd most appreciate any other notable press or other coverage being called out. Phil (talk) 02:48, 20 April 2024 (UTC)