Quantum Computing, eh
It's not news to my friends, but I really am not a big fan of Microsoft or of Windows. However, Microsoft has produced a super nice lecture about quantum computing that is fairly easy to understand. I very much recommend this because, as the lecturer says in the begining, quantum computing is being exposed to the world through pop sci articles that do not do justice to the ideas behind it. In this case, metaphors for how quantum phenomenom like entanglement are achieved/behave are much easier to grasp if you just take a look at the basic linear algebra that explains them.
I feel that this field could be big. However, from an outside perspective, my bet is on the viability of it will stem from a physical implementation discovery that differs from the way that physical implementations are done today. So, something similar to the jump from vacuum tubes to semiconductors/transistors.
Incidentally, physical implementation was something about quantuum computing that I never really saw mentioned in the popular articles that I had previously looked over. Turns out there are a good number of possible physical implementations.
Keep in mind that information and logic can be somewhat arbitrary. As long as we can control a phenomenom to a certain extent, we can harness that phenomenon to do our bidding. Which, humans seem to like to do one thing: spread information
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