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"LIQUi|>" is hands-down the worst name for anything I've ever seen. Do they really expect people to write it like that?

• mdturnerphys 9y ago
  The "|>" is an allusion to the bar and angle brackets used in bra-ket notation [0]. I believe LIQUi|> is targeted more toward academic quantum computing researchers, who are likely to recognize/appreciate the reference. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation
  • bshimmin 9y ago
    I will be honest and say I didn't get the reference!
    • urgoroger 9y ago
      Don't worry! I study quantum computation, and I didn't notice that the |> was supposed to be a D to form the word LIQUID!
• zitterbewegung 9y ago
  It looks horrible but on the other hand it will be really easy to google. Also, it is an injoke for people familiar with quantum mechanics.
  • IncRnd 9y ago
    > it will be really easy to google Hopefully :) Sometimes it gets spelled as LIQ𝑈𝑖⏐〉 (http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/ http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/) which is different from LIQUi|> (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-integrated-quantum-operations-liqui/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-in...), which is different from LIQUID. It all depends on how Google feels about qubits on any given day.
    • seandougall 9y ago
      But can you spell it all three ways at the same time?
      • IncRnd 9y ago
        The exact answer would take more time than I have, so I'll say maybe.
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