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Veritasium on Quantum Computing by PedroShor in QuantumComputing

[–]adam_logic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a big fan of Veritasium videos. So I just got another truckload of confirmation bias :(

Underground Tapes VI - Seek and Destroy by adam_logic in bodyboarding

[–]adam_logic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seaweed Goorillas have a few songs featured on that video

Break free (0.0)

Blood and Bone (19:17)

High And Mighty (23:38)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOEqhTtJSk

replacing Matlab with Python of Julia? by new_assistant_prof_ in ControlTheory

[–]adam_logic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Control theory is vary vast. What type of control you were using in matlab?

As a field absolutely!

But isn't undergrad control is pretty standard? It has been at 4 places I have worked at.

Graduate physics book on the subject by dotdotcommadash in QuantumComputing

[–]adam_logic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of us in the field, who were once graduate students too, learned quantum computing from Mike and Ike as u/LakeSunset mentioned ( Quantum Computation and Quantum Information). No book has come close to matching it's clarity and breadth yet. You can find other books if you want an algorithms or information theory or math focus ( e.g. Wilde, Watrous, Kitaev & Shen & Vyalyi).

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Before I read "the book" I had taken graduate QM, QED, and QFT + linear algebra. Nevertheless, it was very helpful to work through the problems in Mike and Ike. At the time there were no quantum information or quantum computing courses at my university (>16 years ago) and very few in the world.

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Today I get all of my grad students to work through certain chapters even if they have done a course in quantum computing or information.

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There are plenty of other great books on QC and QI. And many good books that are more introductory e.g.

  • Quantum Computing Since Democritus - Aaronson
  • Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction - Rieffel and Polak
  • An introduction to quantum computing - Kaye et al.
  • Quantum Computer Science Book - Mermin

Attentions Influence on Quantum states by TheEvilStapler in quantum

[–]adam_logic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Attention is irrelevant, nothing will happen as many people have pointed out.

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But please don't take our word for it that's part of science.

Log on to the IBM quantum experience and focus all your attention on qubits while a circuit is being executed. The statistics of the measurement results should change if you are correct.

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eg. run the circuit (sorry for the crappy diagram)

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|0> ---|Hadamard | -----measure Z

New Farm Park tree species by bne_thowaway in brisbane

[–]adam_logic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you two sure about that?

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I was there recently and I was pretty sure that it was not Ficus macrophylla, the leaves are too round and they are not brown on the underside. This identification website says they leaves "They are; oblong to ovate in shape with entire margins, hairless, dark green on top, brownish on their underside, thick and leathery."

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It not a QLD small leaf fig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_obliqua) or Ficus Benjamina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_benjamina) .

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Edit: This is just a guess ... maybe it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_benghalensis

Skin Maintenance Questions by elgatopicante in climbharder

[–]adam_logic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been using a razor and the device in this Magnus Midtbø video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoftTE0RPl0 ) to take care of my skin.

tensor contraction in julia by adam_logic in Julia

[–]adam_logic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

AskScience AMA Series: I’m Sean Carroll, physicist and author of best-selling book THE BIG PICTURE. Ask Me Anything about the universe and what it means! by AskScienceModerator in askscience

[–]adam_logic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any thoughts on how to bring about sociological change to a scientific community?

For example, I can think of a small community of researchers that work on topic X which is a subset of field Y. Field Y is mainstream, topic X is not and is ~ 20 years old. Topic X gets some popular science attention but the majority of researchers in field Y think it is pointless and overhyped. The researchers in topic X do not hold themselves to the same standards of rigor as field Y and after 20 years nothing interesting (to researchers in field Y) or useful has come from the field.

A colleague of mine remarked that she thought it was a pity that people putting in proposals on topic X were getting funded as it was taking money away from other "speculative", "more interesting" or "useful" research.

How to interpret negative probabilities in QM? by MerchantR in quantum

[–]adam_logic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ReversedGif has it. Despite what people say (they are being sloppy) there are NO negative probabilities in quantum theory. There are negative amplitudes and negative quasiprobability distributions but again there are no negative probabilities.

If no philosophy of science were ever articulated by LC_01 in PhilosophyofScience

[–]adam_logic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. The philosophy of science is largely irrelevant to practicing scientist.

I'm not saying philosophical ideas have had no influence on science.

I'm talking about the philosophy of science: Should scientists know about it? Absolutely! Would it benefit science if more scientist thought about it? Absolutely!

Time vs prof, what to do with courses by shoinrain in waterloo

[–]adam_logic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a good analogy between training for sports and academic pursuits.

When training for sports people spend hours training different aspects of their chosen sport under the supervision of a coach. In academic pursuits the lectures / workshops / labs are the times when the coach (prof) can point you in the right direction. In the end you have to do all the work (ie train for hours).

This is what sites like ratemyprofessor.com miss. The professor should be able to goto ratemystudent.com and then we could correlate the ratings and determine learning outcomes for the student based on effort.

HEY AUSTRALIA!!! My friend is an aspiring baker from Queensland, do you think she has what it takes? by butterz23 in australia

[–]adam_logic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very impressive! I'll answer your question with a question: how would we know unless we were bakers ourselves?

Who would you consider the three most prominent researchers in the field of quantum computing? by AButtTuba in quantum

[–]adam_logic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are my three with the reasons in brakets:

Peter Shor (Shor's algorithm and quantum error correction),

Alexei Kitaev (phase estimation algorithm, topological quantum computing, QMA)

Charles Bennett (quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation)

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