[mikewarot]

I'm trying to grok quantum computing, all the way down to the electronics. Watch/read lots of stuff over my head, until some little detail fits with my world view, then go back and watch/read stuff again... slowly figuring it all out.

I have a really good mental model of superposition. I'm pretty sure I understand quantum annealing. I'm working on the bloch sphere and quantum gates.

Once I'm sure I understand things, I'll write up some code to simulate it, and then see if that code matches up with the stuff already out there, result wise.

I'm consciously guarding my ignorance of how it is simulated, lest I fall into the same mode of thinking about it as everyone else.

I think I can simulate quantum annealing with an almost trivial amount of code.