Qiskit hello world by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Qiskit component by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
AerError: 'unknown instruction by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
You get an error like this if you forget to call qiskit.transpile():
qiskit_aer.aererror.AerError: 'unknown instruction: QFT'
Related: quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/34396/aererror-unknown-instruction-c-unitary-while-using-control-unitary-operator/35132#35132
Quantum circuit description language by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
These are a bit like the Verilog of quantum computing.
One would hope that they are not Turing complete, this way they may serve as a way to pass on data in such a way that the receiver knows they will only be doing so much computation in advance to unpack the circuit. So it would be like JSON is for JavaScript.
Q-CTRL by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
QuantrolOx by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Riverlane by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
When you fail a HR interview, then you know you've reached rock bottom.
Investments:
Video 1.
The Operating System for Quantum Computing by Steve Brierley (2021)
Source. Founding CEO. He seems nice. You might as well just start watching at: youtu.be/ugzWnw1LTBE?t=1166 where more specific things start to come out.
D-Wave Systems by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
QuTech Academy by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
One of their learning sites: www.qutube.nl/
The educational/outreach branch of QuTech.
High level quantum synthesis by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is a term "invented" by Ciro Santilli to refer to quantum compilers that are able to convert non-specifically-quantum (functional, since there is no state in quantum software) programs into quantum circuit.
The term is made by adding "quantum" to the more "classical" concept of "high-level synthesis", which refers to software that converts an imperative program into register transfer level hardware, typicially for FPGA applications.
NISQ algorithm by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
A quantum algorithm that is thought to be more likely to be useful in the NISQ era of quantum computing.
Quantum threshold theorem by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This theorem roughly states that states that for every quantum algorithm, once we reach a certain level of physical error rate small enough (where small enough is algorithm dependant), then we can perfectly error correct.
This algorithm provides the conceptual division between noisy intermediate-scale quantum era and post-NISQ.
Quantum error correction by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Technique that uses multiple non-ideal qubits (physical qubits) to simulate/produce one perfect qubit (logical).
One is philosophically reminded of classical error correction codes, where we also have multiple input bits per actual information bit.
TODO understand in detail. This appears to be a fundamental technique since all physical systems we can manufacture are imperfect.
Part of the fundamental interest of this technique is due to the quantum threshold theorem.
For example, when PsiQuantum raised 215M in 2020, they announced that they intended to reach 1 million physical qubits, which would achieve between 100 and 300 logical qubits.
Television show by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Quantum Intermediate Representation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Used e.g. by Oxford Quantum Circuits, www.linkedin.com/in/john-dumbell-627454121/ mentions:
Using LLVM to consume QIR and run optimization, scheduling and then outputting hardware-specific instructions.
Presumably the point of it is to allow simulation in classical computers?
Integer factorization algorithms better than Shor's algorithm by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong.
We have long known from Shor’s algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy. But it takes a big quantum computer, on the orders of millions of qbits, to factor anything resembling the key sizes we use today. What the researchers have done is combine classical lattice reduction factoring techniques with a quantum approximate optimization algorithm. This means that they only need a quantum computer with 372 qbits, which is well within what’s possible today. (The IBM Osprey is a 433-qbit quantum computer, for example. Others are on their way as well.)
Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Toy/test/tought experiment algorithm.
Pinned article: ourbigbook/introduction-to-the-ourbigbook-project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Video 1.
Intro to OurBigBook
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We have two killer features:
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    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
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    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
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    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
    Video 2.
    OurBigBook Web topics demo
    . Source.
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    Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
    Video 4.
    OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
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