The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy

Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by currymj on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:46PM (#16227441)

Microsoft's Q# is interesting. It's framed in a way that seems weirdly premature, but it is probably the nicest platform to learn about and play with quantum algorithms. Better than multiplying huge matrices in Octave, for sure.

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Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by wRastel27 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:02PM (#16228198)

It's definitely the most developer-friendly language that heavily borrows from their functional F# language. Microsoft has put a heavy bet into simulation so that they have a bit more of a runway before they need to produce a working quantum computer based on topological architecture. Interesting that they are targeting developers whereas most other languages are targeting scientists.

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Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by cbHXBY1D on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:09PM (#16228678)

It's written in F# so it makes sense it draws inspiration from it.

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Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by bdamm on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:40PM (#16228102)

That’s outstanding. Have you solved anything with it?

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Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by currymj on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:12AM (#16229337)

only extremely basic stuff, nearly done with Deutsch-Josza now.

But again the alternatives are basically just representing your qubits as huge vectors and gates as huge matrices and just doing lots of multiplication, which is an extremely cumbersome and frustrating way to program and precludes any kind of abstraction, even for toy learning problems.

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