One important area of research and development of quantum computing is the development of benchmarks that allow us to compare different quantum computers to decide which one is more powerful than the other.
Ideally, we would like to be able to have a single number that predicts which computer is more powerful than the other for a wide range of algorithms.
However, much like in CPU benchmarking, this is a very complex problem, since different algorithms might perform differently in different architectures, making it very hard to sum up the architecture's capabilities to a single number as we would like.
The only thing that is directly comparable across computers is how two machines perform for a single algorithm, but we want a single number that is representative of many algorithms.
For example, the number of qubits would be a simple naive choice of such performance predictor number. But it is very imprecise, since other factors are also very important:
Quantum volume is another less naive attempt at such metric.
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Ciro Santilli thinks that maybe the government does not need to provide those, but it needs to regulate the fuck out of them, notably control over censorship in those platforms: the deplatforming of Donald Trump.
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Visualizing the Riemann hypothesis and analytic continuation by 3Blue1Brown (2016) Updated 2025-07-14 +Created 1970-01-01
Good ultra quick visual non-mathematical introduction to the Riemann hypothesis and analytic continuation.
For sizing see also: Ciro Santilli's body.
Ciro Santilli does not believe in free will of course because he is an agnostic and he believes that brains are controlled by the laws of physics, see also: physics and the illusion of life.
Quantum field theory in a nutshell by Anthony Zee (2010) Updated 2025-07-14 +Created 1970-01-01
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