[ProllyInfamous]

Thank you for posting/sharing.

My mid-sized US city (Chattanooga) has recently announced a partnership with Vanderbilt and EPB (local govt-owned fiber ISP) which creates a Quantum Computing Research Facility [$,$$$,$$$,$$$] [1].

As locals are covering this news, I keep having this thought that nobody (perhaps less than a few?) even knows what those words mean (certainly not me). You speak confidently and clearly enough that I'm incline to believe it's kind of real.

So thanks for sharing your P[0]V with this dumbass (former data center) electrician (me). All the "Quantum"-phrasing represents to me is more local job opportunities.

>>@3m27s: "Quantum computing is basically trying to treat some isolated piece of the universe to behave slightly less randomly, for a very brief timeframe, so that it is useful to you when you try to solve some problem."

>>@20m: [simple flow-chart of interacting with Quantum Processing Unit]

>>@final.words: [paraphrasing] "Right now you buy a quantum computer simply to research quantum computers. Ours is $14MM"

>>@final.meme: <https://i.imgur.com/WKaN3mL.png> [2]

>>Q&A further listening recommendation: <https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/05/13/275-...>

>>"If you learn the examples on <https://quantum.country> you will be among top 1% of QC newhires."

[0] that quantum computing is "kind of real", which is how it always feels when being-described

[1] <https://www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/initiatives-and-outrea...>

[2] explain yourself (you really think you can include this slide in your presentation and then not talk about its implication(s)?!)

[freetonik]

The meme refers to the notion where an observation (i.e. interaction) collapses the wave function to a single value. As in, prior to observation, a system in a quantum superposition is said to be "in multiple states at the same time", and after the obsevation only one state exists, while all other possibilities are gone (or exist in other worlds, according to one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics [0]).

So, in that meme, the guy looks at one girl (the observed state) and "ignores" all other girls (all other possible states).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

[ProllyInfamous]

I'm about 20 minutes into:

>>https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/05/13/275-...

Which was recommended from the top_commenter's link to his own professional QPU programming presentation. I remain interested in learning more about this pure magic.

Ya'lls words both seem to represent worlds which I doubt even more words could help me into ever understanding(s).

I definitely understand being "in multiple states at the same time" — — —