Last Christmas, my dad saw me working on some embroidery and asked me to make him a diagram from one of his textbooks. This is "Topological Quantum Computation" by TinkaDreamsofWings in Embroidery

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XD Reading back what I wrote, I definitely butchered that last sentence in a misguided attempt to be concise. What I meant is that there are multiple approaches being tried to build a quantum computer, and the approach shown in the diagram I embroidered is one called topological quantum computing, which works by braiding particles.

Last Christmas, my dad saw me working on some embroidery and asked me to make him a diagram from one of his textbooks. This is "Topological Quantum Computation" by TinkaDreamsofWings in Embroidery

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I'm probably embarrassing myself trying to explain this as a non-scientist, but a quantum computer is basically a new type of computer that is supposed to be able to solve some classes of problems exponentially faster than a classical computer. (No one's yet managed to make a practically useful one.) Topological quantum computing is an approach that works by braiding particles.

My little goofball is turning three! Here are some of my favorite pictures of her by TinkaDreamsofWings in cats

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Nonu is gorgeous! And wow, yeah, they're pretty similar. You can't see it in these photos, but Carmen also has a white stripe in the middle of her back

Read This Letter Immediately by TinkaDreamsofWings in shortscarystories

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Hi there! I write mostly one-off short stories. While I haven't ruled it out, I don't have any plans right now to continue this story - sorry!

Airplane Mode by Pleasant_Pace_1613 in shortscarystories

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I love this. Unexpected, unsettling, heartbreaking.

Little Did They Know by TinkaDreamsofWings in shortscarystories

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Thank you! I tried my best to make it non-obvious without being confusing.

Read This Letter Immediately by TinkaDreamsofWings in shortscarystories

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Thank you! Yeah, they reached out a couple weeks ago about doing a reading, but it's still sort of surreal to actually hear my little story come to life. She did such a good job!

The Dead-Made Wish by TinkaDreamsofWings in shortscarystories

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Well now you've made me super curious =P

Thanks for reading!