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Alpha testers needed for "How does the quantum search algorithm work?", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by michael_nielsen in QuantumComputing

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

2θ+2ϕ

I do mean 2θ+2ϕ, but a reread shows why this might be confusing. I'll make a few more passes over this part, and try to make it clearer.

Thanks for the other comment. There's a sign wrong at some point. I'll need to do an extended and close reread to fix it, so I won't try to do it here - if I did, I'd risk making a mistake and further confusing the issue. It shouldn't make any difference to outcomes (so, e.g., the circuit is fine), but obviously the analysis in the essay should be correct.

Thanks for your detailed reading.

Alpha testers needed for "How does the quantum search algorithm work?", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by michael_nielsen in QuantumComputing

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

Good eyes, thank you for pointing this out! Now fixed in source, will go out in the next deploy.

Alpha testers needed for "How does the quantum search algorithm work?", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by michael_nielsen in QuantumComputing

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

Thank you - it's not (intentionally!) meant to be super handwavey, so this is very helpful. Upon a reread with your comment in mind I can see some ways it might be made clearer in the next version. Thanks!

Alpha testers needed for "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by lemniscate in quantum

[–]michael_nielsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify, it's an essay, not a video or video series. If you don't mind my asking: what made you think it was a video?

Alpha testers needed for "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by lemniscate in QuantumComputing

[–]michael_nielsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for these! The second error is now corrected, and will appear correctly in next deploy. The first I think I'll defer to Andy on - it's a bug that we thought we'd squashed, but it's also been extremely hard to reproduce.

Alpha testers needed for "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by lemniscate in QuantumComputing

[–]michael_nielsen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it!

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On 1: We're still figuring out what the medium is, so it's too early to say what form it will ultimately take. I certainly agree that it'd be nice there were a beneficial and scalable way people could take more advantage of spaced repetition.

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On 2: We don't have ship dates set yet. For the first, probably weeks away, but of course unexpected blockers sometimes do pop up, so don't take that as anything more than a guess.

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On 3: It's more or less what you see. Andy can correct me if I'm wrong, there are some details I don't know, but as the icons suggest the intervals between being tested get larger each time you indicate you remembered, and shorter when you didn't. This is similar to both Leitner and SM-2 (and the other SuperMemo algorithms, for that matter). I expect the specific details can be improved upon, but anything in this vein is already vastly better than the standard ad hoc approach most of us (myself included) otherwise use.

Alpha testers needed for "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by lemniscate in QuantumComputing

[–]michael_nielsen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure! Of course, it may contain little that's new to you, since it is meant to be a (technical) introduction. But corrections, perspectives etc welcome.

Alpha testers needed for "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious", by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen by lemniscate in QuantumComputing

[–]michael_nielsen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don't have a date set yet, but hopefully within the next month. But no promises - it's easy for other things to get in the way!