Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

At Section "Quantum computing is just matrix multiplication" we saw that making a quantum circuit actually comes down to designing one big unitary matrix.

We have to say though that that was a bit of a lie.

Quantum programmers normally don't just produce those big matrices manually from scratch.

Instead, they use quantum logic gates.

The following are the main reasons for that:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0442715/ on IMDb

Hosted by Bill Nye.

Physics topics:

biology topics:

Genetics:

Medicine:

The concept is a strong part of Water Margin.

The very first chapter opens with Grand Commander Hou disrespecting spirits by opening up a sealed tomb and unintentionally releasing 108 demons who presumably reincarnate as humans, a backstory to the events that follow years later.

This is well shown in the Japanese The Water Margin, but is skipped in the Chinese The Water Margin unfortunately.

The concept is also central to the Suikoden video game.

Actually, now that Ciro Santilli thinks about it, these were already likely meant as a "collectible" element by the author of the original book, as is strongly suggested by all the little illustrations of each character present on the Wikipedia page. Just like e.g. Catholic saints. It's Pokemon, but 2000 years earlier.

Ciro would notably feel many years later, that as he met random people online who were interested in improving eduction, or was otherwise networking to reach his goals, as if he were actually building up his 108 stars of destiny.

A central part, and perhaps the most interesting part of the novel, is how each character has been motivated by injustice to join the rebellion. This reminds Ciro of Final Fantasy VI

This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.

For the discovery of green fluorescent protein.

Quantum superposition is really weird because it is fundamentally different than "either definite state but I don't know which", because the superposition state leads to different measurements than the non-superposition state.

Examples:

These are "original" thoughts that Ciro had which at some point in the past amused him. Some would call them pieces of wisdom, others self delusion. All have likely been thought by others in the past, and some of them Ciro thinks to himself after a few years: "why did I like this back then??".

After Ciro's colleague was doing that in a project:

On the theory vs practice of computer science:

On how human perception of media is completely unrelated to the computer's transmission mechanism:

On how you make the best friends in life when dealing with hardships together.In Ciro's case, this in particular means going through high school/universities studies and work projects, though of course war would apply particularly well. Perhaps inspired by as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

This is of course just another version of one picture is worth a thousand words.

Others:

Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music

Ciro Santilli considered it before he stopped using file managers altogether, it is not bad.

Ciro Santilli's sport of choice circa 2020, see also: Ciro Santilli's cycling.

What do you prefer, 1 \times 10^{10} or 1E10.

Cardinality $\le$ dimension of the vector space.