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If you want to see this kind of thing done “really in real time” check out Terry Tao’s recent mathstodon posts where he learns Lean while formalizing a paper of his own. Fascinatin…

"Most important" by whom? For example the early 1900s photos of Congo atrocities ended up being pretty important IMO! https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1..…

“In fact, it isn’t even clear that depositors were going to be wiped out, absent federal intervention. When SVB was shut down, it still had real assets that were worth money, which…

Argh - yes it can. Bell explicitly have a pretty trivial one in one of his early papers. QM cannot be explained by a non-contextual hidden variables model. (The simplest physical v…

And heres a free chapter from mine that does the Deutsch-Josza algorithm using only a very simple graphical (really string rewriting) set of rules: http://qisforquantum.org/wp-cont…

A few months ago a couple of physics postdocs set up a website (vanityindex dot com) and proposed a few "vanity metrics". Can be fun to check out your own vanity index and that of …

I presume its explained in Scott Asronsons book, its implicitly there in Nielsen and Chuang. But the best way to understand it is by example - try to write out how you would descri…

[typo note its 2^N quantum amplitudes] A clear description but potentially very misleading and one that will certainly screw up your intuition about what to expect from quantum com…

Let me present it a different way. Someone comes to you with two formal models of computing. Both models involve representing the state of the computer as a vector of real numbers,…

Its not meant to be an analogy. We also will not attempt to generate all quantum states on a quantum computer. As with classical monte carlo, we will only ever generate a tiny frac…

Here is a way to see the fallacy of the OMG, its 10^300 variables, thats crazy style of “argument”. Consider a probabilistic classical algorithm on 500 bits. Perhaps a Monte Carlo …

Many would argue that Copenhagen is not local, but its very hard to even define locality if you are genuinely non-realist about everything . Regardless, if it was possible to be "l…

Bell's theorem rules out locality even for non-deterministic theories as well. Don't get determinism and realism confused...

Try reading "Q is for Quantum", by the end of Part I you will understand one quantum algorithm thoroughly. All necessary gates are explained carefully and the linear algebra gets s…

+1 for the (giant) list of idiotic quantum metaphors...