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Liquid – A Language Integrated Quantum Operations Simulator

• ravitation 10y ago
  "LIQ𝑈𝑖⏐〉" is a very strange logo... Doesn't seem terribly legible to me.
  • raziel2701 10y ago
    It is for the physicists. The D is a ket...
    • ravitation 10y ago
      I understand that...
    • tregant 10y ago
      And the U is a unitary operator (the propagator in this case). "i" is also found everywhere in QM.
    • contravariant 10y ago
      Well, I have to admit I didn't realise it was supposed to read 'Liquid' until I read this comment. Somehow I had missed the title.
  • daveguy 10y ago
    Especially when it shows up as liq<box><box><box><box>.
• aasseer 10y ago
  Surely the very first thing I do with my first quantum computer is to run .NET on it.
  • misnome 10y ago
    I don't think we're at the state where people are trying to run simulations of quantum computing, on quantum computers.
• imtinyrick 10y ago
  It's not open source as the title says, they just store a crippled version of the binary on Github. Check the "source" directory if you don't believe me. It's almost comical the way it's set up.
  • reikonomusha 10y ago
    Not sure why this is downvoted. The simulator is closed source. The library to use the simulator is open.
  • youdontknowtho 10y ago
    There are lots of samples at https://github.com/StationQ/Liquid/tree/master/Samples https://github.com/StationQ/Liquid/tree/master/Samples what makes you think its crippled? EDIT: Do you use this kind of stuff? It's a little outside of my wheelhouse. EDIT EDIT: I just set through a youtube lecture about this thing and its freaking amazing. I wish that I worked with stuff like this. Complaining because they didn't release some part of this as "to your liking OSS"...you need to hush. This thing is awesome and science is cool. EDIT EDIT EDIT: https://youtu.be/4mMizLpIVKs https://youtu.be/4mMizLpIVKs This was the ACM talk that I watched. Wow.
    • devwastaken 10y ago
      >I just set through a youtube lecture about this thing and its freaking amazing. I wish that I worked with stuff like this. Complaining because they didn't release some part of this as "to your liking OSS"...you need to hush. This thing is awesome and science is cool. 'To your liking' has nothing to do with it. If the title said it was open source, and its not, its not open source. Just because its 'cool' doesn't forgive misinformation.
      • youdontknowtho 10y ago
        The samples are open source. They extend and use F# which is open source. The page that is linked to doesn't say anything about open source, just that it's on GitHub. (It also says it runs on Linux and .Net, both of which are...) The person that I was replying to said that the title claimed it was open source. I didn't see that. It seemed like they were just complaining because didn't look like every other GitHub repo. I don't think that there was 'misinformation'...but thanks to thought police HN is still free of people trying to subvert open source software by releasing research tools for free? Yay. We're saved. EDIT: Was calling it crippled 'misinformation'? There doesn't seem to be anything impairing its operation from the reading that I did.
• yarrel 10y ago
  Why was the mention of Microsoft removed from the title?
• youdontknowtho 10y ago
  There are some great lectures on youtube about this...it's been in development for quite a while. EDIT: There's a video section on the support page. It's dope.
• squozzer 10y ago
  One of the prereqs is a pkg called mono. That gave me a bit of nostalgia.
• hackdroid 10y ago
  There is a template language called "Liquid" by Shopify. One of you has to change the name to avoid confusion.