Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Start by looking at: Maxwell-Boltzmann vs Bose-Einstein vs Fermi-Dirac statistics.

In the context of quantum computing of the 2020's, a "classical computer" is a computer that is not "quantum", i.e., the then dominating CMOS computers.

After learning this term, Ciro Santilli finally understood that his actual major was MR, and not bullshit like applied mathematics or control theory.

Stopped 2019 apparently. Shame. We need something to be upstreamed!

It is hard to beat the list present at Quantum computing report: quantumcomputingreport.com/players/.

The much less-complete Wikipedia page is also of interest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_quantum_computing_or_communication It has the merit of having a few extra columns compared to Quantum computing report.

Also of interest: quantumzeitgeist.com/interactive-map-of-quantum-computing-companies-from-around-the-globe/

They put a lot of expensive equipment together, much of it made by other companies, and they make the entire chip for companies ordering them.

The history of light if funny.

First people thought it was a particle, as per corpuscular theory of light, notably Newton supported the corpuscular theory of light.

But then evidence of the diffraction of light start to become unbearably strong, culminating in the Arago spot.

And finally it was understood from Maxwell's equations that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, as its speed was perfectly predicted by the theory.

But then evidence of particle nature started to surface once again with the photoelectric effect. Physicists must have been driven mad by all these changes.

This was one of the first notable country-led large scale sequencing efforts of the world.

Sample paper: www.nature.com/articles/ng.3247

The exact opposite of argument from poor design!