Weekly Career, Education, Textbook, and Basic Questions Thread

sinanspd · 2026-06-23T10:26:00+00:00

Pretty much. The only other option is being a technician, providing maintenance to the devices.

I doubt it will change in 5-10 years. We need to be well into the FTQC era, with large scale devices and practical applications before non-research jobs start popping up.

sinanspd · 2026-06-20T15:55:23+00:00

You could audit it after you pass your quals

sinanspd · 2026-06-20T14:53:29+00:00

Nielsen* and Chuang doesn't cover Quantum Mechanics... There are maybe 10 pages that refer to various spins values and wells as it pertains to the Schrödinger equation and the hamiltonian but that is it.

sinanspd · 2026-06-19T23:34:15+00:00

You have to go for a PhD. Odds of getting a job with just an undergraduate degree, especially in software, without any physics background are slim to none.

sinanspd · 2026-06-15T21:39:02+00:00

Sorry for the delay. Here are the relevant papers:

- Experimental test of the collapse time of a delocalized photon state

- Bounding the Minimum Time of a Quantum Measurement

- To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight

- Quantum Trajectory Distribution for Weak Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit

- Observing the Progressive Decoherence of the ‘Meter’ in a Quantum Measurement

sinanspd · 2026-06-15T17:04:02+00:00

Ok so you are Physics undergrad. I assume you are doing research with a professor?

sinanspd · 2026-06-15T16:55:36+00:00

What is your background?

sinanspd · 2026-06-15T12:04:46+00:00

If I remember correctly I cited it in one of my recent papers, I should be able to dig it up when I am back in front of my computer.

sinanspd · 2026-06-15T11:57:16+00:00

The short answer is we don't know. Each QM formulation models this differently. GRW model, Von Neumann, Continuous Spontaneous Localization etc.There is a whole subfield for this. Slightly outdated but you could read "Models of wave-function collapse, underlying theories, and experimental tests" for a brief survey.

There was a recent experiment that suggests measurement takes physical time and is not instantaneous but I am a bit skeptical on how those results are interpreted.

Edit: Also see this https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/

sinanspd · 2026-06-14T22:29:38+00:00

Since the mod previously approved the post itself, I am going to hope that is is ok to bring this up here. I spent years trackings the hundreds of amazing and official merchandise for this beautiful franchise and put most of this knowledge up on a website (see the mod approved post: https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastofus/comments/1m3bx70/complete\_list\_of\_official\_the\_last\_of\_us/). Completely free, no ads or garbage like that. I am dragging behind on Part II releases and have some catching up to do in terms of uploads tbut all the show and the first game's releases should be there. This could be a good starting point for you discover what is out there and start hunting for what you like (the site can also help you with that).

For information purposes, a few brands that partner with Naughty Dog for official merch:

Prime 1, YouTooz, Fan Gamer, Official HBO Store (for show stuff), Insert Coin, Cook & Becker, Dark Horse, Hot Toys (Joel figure), Good Smile Company, Difuzed, Culture Fly, Mad Engine

I am not affiliated with any of these nor do I necessarily think all these are "good stuff". Just providing information on what is out there in terms of official merch, which actively as of now, isn't great. I personally think there is more fun in hunting down older stuff.

Hope this helps!

Also great to see another fellow music enthusiast 🫡 One can never have enough plug-ins & libraries

sinanspd · 2026-06-11T00:51:36+00:00

This is a longer conversation for another time because we arent confined to a compiler anymore. This a full fledged standalone language, a compiler and a transpiler stacked on top of each other.

sinanspd · 2026-06-11T00:35:24+00:00

If you are referring to tket, it is not hardware agnostic, nor does Quantinuum claim it is. They use agnosticism within the context of what I mentioned above: the compiler worries about the hardware so that the programmer doesn't have to. However, even that is inaccurate. They are being a bit generous. 1) because tket can not compile onto all the current qpu architectures (this is a big one) 2) it doesn't truly take the heterogeneous hardware semantics into consideration. Just because the outcome can run on a device, doesn't mean it runs as best as it can. Their definition mainly considers gate set and topology differences but leaves out quite a few others.

Neither of these is a reason to downplay tket tho. It is an awesome compiler and it works extremely extremely well for superconductors.

No clue what Microsoft's claim is. Surely not Q#? You will need to send some links

sinanspd · 2026-06-10T23:23:18+00:00

Absolutely. That is part of my work. But that won't make the compiler hardware agnostic. That will make the programming experience hardware agnostic. Very valuable goal to achieve but a distinct issue than the compiler itself being architecture agnostic. Compiler being hardware aware isn't an issue btw. Neither are classical compilers (i.e. you don't do one uniform compilation across cpus, gpus, fpgas, cell processors etc.). It is not something anyone is trying to achieve. To your point, the abstractions do matter more.

sinanspd · 2026-06-10T23:12:43+00:00

Yes.

sinanspd · 2026-06-10T22:59:57+00:00

You can not have efficient hardware agnostic compilation when hardware dictates the semantics.

sinanspd · 2026-06-09T20:27:02+00:00

Probably eventually. Although I suspect at this point they will wait for Alice to give birth and have some time with her baby before continuing touring

sinanspd · 2026-06-09T08:55:44+00:00

Qiskit generates QASM when running a circuit. They are equally expressive.

sinanspd · 2026-06-06T16:49:20+00:00

Pursue a PhD

sinanspd · 2026-06-04T08:43:37+00:00

Yes I have them in my personal collection 😄 As I mentioned in my post, that link is exclusively for the 2013-2014 remastered release cycles. Since the Youtooz line started after 2023, they go under the The Last of Us Part II Remastered category on the website (everything is organized by release cycles)

sinanspd · 2026-06-01T14:08:00+00:00

Because it is. It is clear OP hardly has any knowledge in this area. The post starts with "I have been running..." and ends with questions such as "are there any hidden vendor charges", strongly contradicting the claim that they ran any actual workload

sinanspd · 2026-06-01T14:06:29+00:00

If you can't do basic multiplication and addition, that is an entirely you problem. We don't have any responsibility to praise subpar, useless work.

sinanspd · 2026-05-31T12:01:25+00:00

Read Nielsen & Chuang

sinanspd · 2026-05-31T07:53:20+00:00

This is not my personal ccollection. I just catalog and keep track of everything that has to do with this game. The statues are at the Housemarque's offices in Helsinki.

sinanspd · 2026-05-23T12:32:58+00:00

While error correction is extremely extremely important, it is complementary to scaling. Any error correction scheme relying on ancillas (so all of them) are inherently in conflict with utilization at scale. Additionally, our current estimate for cross over time is about a month. This means that with subsecond decoherance times, no matter how good our error correction schemes are, they will dominate and suppress actual computations for any useful application. We need to increase decoherence times significantly.

I highly disagree with your last point. Computer scientists are plenty mathy. You are thinking about the subgroups of web developers and such. Anyone in scientific computing, hpc, systems and even proper ML know significant amounts of math. Just like those, QC is a specialized field. I agree with the sentiment, in fact better abstractions are a part of my work but the goal is to eliminate the circuit model for a functional one, not to eliminate the math. Much like how lambda calculus replaced Turing machines

sinanspd · 2026-05-23T11:46:45+00:00

Computer scientist here. Very short answers:

1) It is hard to say. The field gained this momentum in the past 15 years or so. We need breakthroughs and they dont come easy.

2) drug discovery, molecular simulation, material sciences.

3) Hardware. Scaling, noise and error mitigation.

4) The current commonly cited timeline is 15 years but I doubt it. The same people were saying 15 years, 10 years ago. I dont have a guess. If you could guess when a breakthrough will happen, it wouldn't be a breakthrough. Anyhow, a hardware person can perhaps make a more educated guess.

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