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by boothby 7y ago
I can't speak to braket being open source, but at least two of the hardware providers, D-Wave [1] and Rigetti, have open source stacks. Disclosure, I work for D-Wave and I'm not terribly familiar with the other providers. [1] ht
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by boothby 7y ago
Look what you made me do! https://github.com/boothby/repiet/#but-is-it-faster-than-c
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by boothby 7y ago
Audiophile equipment is nothing like a multistage cryogenic refrigerator. It's made of pumps, seals, heat exchangers... and when you're using helium 4 as a coolant you really need zero leakage because it's an extremely expen
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by boothby 7y ago
Odd, indeed. MIT is just about the easiest license to comply with. I've put in a PR to fix this issue.
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by boothby 7y ago
There's been a lot of interesting research in superconducting computer architectures that bear similarities to these concepts; some of it pursuant to quantum computing, some classical. [1] DACs that use switching of Josephson junction
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by boothby 7y ago
> If I have to use Chrome, I basically use a scrappy console that I made on the HTML page itself. Back in the day when I was working on the Sage Notebook, there weren't good javascript consoles. I can't recall if Firefox had
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by boothby 7y ago
> My understanding is that none of D-wave's systems for instance are anywhere close to implementing Shor, and I treat that as my "are we there yet" test. Do you care about the algorithm, or the result? Currently we can fa
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by boothby 7y ago
> Imagine that Euclid's algorithm was patented... As a mathematician with a patented algorithm / open source advocate... I'm extremely squeamish about this and not super comfortable with it. On the other hand... Cardano&
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by boothby 7y ago
I'm the primary developer for a heuristic, nondeterministic algorithm. It's both production software, and also a neverending research project. Specifically, I can't guarantee that a particular random seed will always produc
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by boothby 7y ago
One can expect "constant factor" speedups, such as we see from GPUs. And some clever people may find algorithms which result in polynomial speedups. In (complexity) theory, the impact is negligible. In practice, dropping an O(n
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by boothby 8y ago
When I was working on the Sage Notebook, circa 2007, I made the best textarea-IDE I could... folks requested vim and emacs bindings but browsers just weren't ready. Heck, I wrote my own javascript console because iirc only Firefox had
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by boothby 8y ago
I'm a physicist-adjacent mathematician, a working topological graph theorist at DWave. I'm an architect (more like a quantum architect, elbereth) for the hardware team and also a developer / researcher in algorithms. On the
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by boothby 8y ago
I'm a D-Wave employee, hacker & graph theorist; I made the animation and helped design the circuit that it depicts. AMA?