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Don’t feel bad — in a recent WSJ magazine interview with Bill Gates he said, (paraphrasing), “I keep up with most of the new tech at Microsoft, but if there’s o
by gdubs 9y ago
Don’t feel bad — in a recent WSJ magazine interview with Bill Gates he said, (paraphrasing), “I keep up with most of the new tech at Microsoft, but if there’s one area where the math looks like Greek to me, it’s Quantum Computing.”
- vtomole 9y agoThe basics of quantum computing are not difficult if you know linear algebra. The state of a qubit is described using a column vector that holds complex numbers. Gate operations are performed by multiplication on the states with unitary matrices. A good introduction: http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
- dudus 9y agoThat's the greek right there
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