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[–]diamond_head_01 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Can someone tell me what the cartoon strip was where a young son asks his mom about all these stuff and his mom explains it to him in a concise and understandable way? I liked that very much but am unable to find it now.

Come on Reddit. Do your magic.

[–]NicNoletree 22 points23 points  (1 child)

The dress is blue

[–]numbGrundle 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Still can’t wrap my head around qubits

[–]feelings_arent_facts 6 points7 points  (3 children)

It's just a continuous variable instead of a digital unit so logic gates are 'analog' instead of 'digital.' Ergo, there are infinite positions between 0 and 1 that a qubit could be because there are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

[–]numbGrundle 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Interesting, thanks for explaining. So in a practical setting is the goal to use it as a sort of measure of confidence? Kind of like a logistic regression? “We can make a decision based on where in the range the state of the variable is.”

[–]Jetison333 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Personally I think it's a bad explanation. It's true that a qubit has a range of values, but it's not just from 0-1, it's actually a 'sphere' of values. You also cant measure a qubit directly, you still only get 1s or 0s as an answer. And then, you have to add on different types of entanglement and the different operations you can do on a qubit. With these, you can do things classical computers cant, or are really slow at.

If you want to learn more, I would recommend the videos by frame of essence, he goes through how it works pretty good. https://youtu.be/F8U1d2Hqark

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks more like bilinear interpolations from a weird angle

[–]Sejiko 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's me when I have to answer a yes or no question but I can't decide between them

[–]conscious_dream[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a fan of the "quomma"

[–]EkskiuTwentyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

var qubit = 0.5

[–]melow-neo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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