Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

E.g.: www.quantinuum.com/pressrelease/demonstrating-benefits-of-quantum-upgradable-design-strategy-system-model-h1-2-first-to-prove-2-048-quantum-volume from 2021.

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.

Works at Caltech as of 2020.

Sean's series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe has some merit, but it's just to math-light falling a bit below the missing link between basic and advanced.

But as usual, it falls too close to popular science for Ciro's taste.

Example: Figure "caesium-137 decay scheme"

The GAN paper itself does a bit of this, cool hello world:

This ISA basically completely dominated the smartphone market of the 2010s and beyond, but it started appearing in other areas as the end of Moore's law made it more economical logical for large companies to start developing their own semiconductor, e.g. Google custom silicon, Amazon custom silicon.

It is exciting to see ARM entering the server, desktop and supercomputer market circa 2020, beyond its dominant mobile position and roots.

Ciro Santilli likes to see the underdogs rise, and bite off dominant ones.

The excitement also applies to RISC-V possibly over ARM mobile market one day conversely however.

Basically, as long as were a huge company seeking to develop a CPU and able to control your own ecosystem independently of Windows' desktop domination (held by the need for backward compatibility with a billion end user programs), ARM would be a possibility on your mind.

On Qiskit qiskit==0.44.1:

E.g. with our qiskit/hello.py, we obtain the Bell state circuit:

This was the first large part of the genome that was sequenced, in 1981: Cambridge Reference Sequence. Presumably they picked it because it is short and does not undergo crossover.

About 16.6 kbp:

TODO: many places say "exactly" 16,569, it seems that variable number tandem repeat are either rare or don't occur!