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adamisntdead

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    I guess back when I wrote it I didn't see the need given that single qubit gates along with CNOT are universal and they're implemented. I think airing on the side of 'as few featur…

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    Comment #36750250

    I wrote something similar a couple of years ago - https://github.com/adamisntdead/QuSimPy Happy to answer any questions people have, including on other simulation methods other tha…

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    Comment #29145000

    I'm currently a mathematics undergraduate at Cambridge and there's quite a few students who live type notes in various different formats. I think that the majority of the learning …

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    Comment #28377242

    If we're talking about Fun maths, there's a couple of really good channels that look at Olympiad problems. - vEnhance ( https://www.youtube.com/c/vEnhance ), an MIT student and IMO…

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    I'm a big fan of this video from Reducible on Huffman codes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3y0RsVCyrw , and from 3Blue1Brown on Hamming codes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8…

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    Comment #28129466

    I'm surprised that something like point compression can even be patented, considering that it's relatively straightforward mathematically (all of the difficulty seems to lie in the…

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    Comment #21236097

    Because the pacemakers rotated, they weren't the same all of the way through.

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    Comment #18705211

    That article had a really nice depth to it, answered all of my questions that I had yesterday when I first saw the project.

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    Comment #18528333

    Well if you get assigned bad seats you might not come back, for this sort of thing I would say happy customers would lead back into more money

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    Comment #18528254

    I have been thinking about this sort of thing quite a lot - while I do think it's wrong to split people up on a plane, it is quite an interesting concept. A similar but less malici…

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    Comment #17587206

    Quantum computing won't require much extra power that python can't provide, the only heavy processing will be circuit generation which is (as far as we can see at the moment) fine …

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    Comment #17232001

    As someone who read this with an editor full of OpenCL kernels, I think apple must really have missed the point of these sort of frameworks - heterogeneous computing. If I wanted t…

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    Comment #17054911

    Me too, and they say it will be over $500 to fix as they need a whole new casing

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    Comment #16972658

    Love the idea - what API are you using for summarization?

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    Comment #16949042

    I am always impressed by the amount of content posted about Quantum Computing on hn. As a subject I find really interesting, it's really encouraging to see other people with the sa…