Open Thread for discussing the term "Quantum Supremacy"
This is an open thread in case anyone wants to discuss the merits and demerits of using the term “quantum supremacy”.
Quantum in the wild
Sometimes quantum appears out of nowhere when you least expect it. From the September 2, 2018 edition of the New York Times Magazine.
Quantum Computers Are…
Quantum computers are Blue versions of classical computers [1] [2] [3][4] Blue or grey abstract patterns [1] [2][3][4][5][6] A bunch of connectors [1][2] Blurred out chips [1] What goes inside the dilution fridge [1][2][3] Closed dilution fridges [1] Part of a flag [1] A button near the enter key [1] Icy cold really big atoms …
Un-renunciation
Can pontiffs un-retire (un-renunciate)? I mean, I retired from being a pontiff way before it was cool. But now the sweet siren call of trying to figure out whether there is really a there there for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices has called me back. I think it may be time to start doing a …
Quantum Advantage
Update (22 May 2017): This Scirate thread seems to have touched a nerve. Since this was previously buried in the comments here, it’s worth promoting to the top of the post. I think that “quantum computational supremacy” addresses the concern. Basically, we use “quantum” as an adjective for our peer group, which makes the analogy to “white” too …
Seattle for QIPers
QIP 2017 is coming to Seattle, hosted by the QuArC group at Microsoft, January 16-20 (with tutorials on the 14th and 15th). If you have some spare moments, maybe you arrive early, or maybe you are planning for the afternoon off, here are some ideas for things to do around the wonderful city I call …
5 Years!
Five years ago I (it’s me Dave Bacon former supposed pseudo-professor and one time quantum pontiff) jumped off the academic ship, swam to shore, and put on a new set of clothes as a software developer for Google. Can it really have been five years? Well I should probably update this blog so my mom …
Hazards of "Shut up and calculate"
Three quantum physicists show why no interpretation is the worst.
What If Papers Had APIs?
API is an abbreviation that stands for “Application Program Interface.” Roughly speaking an API is a specification of a software component in terms of the operations one can perform with that component. For example, a common kind of an API is the set of methods supported by a encapsulated bit of code a.k.a. a library …
QIP 2015 Talks Available
Talks from QIP 2015 are now available on this YouTube channel. Great to see! I’m still amazed by the wondrous technology that allows me to watch talks given on the other side of the world, at my own leisure, on such wonderful quantum esoterica. Here also are links to the Pontifical live-blogging and the QIP …