Re:Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone wo...
by mda on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:47PM
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I found the comic not very good either. Kid suddenly blurts "Wait a minute, that means a qubit corresponds to a unit vector in 2 dimensional Hilbert space"
Yeah.
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Re:Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone wo...
by 7thaccount on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:54PM
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I think you have to take that sarcastically like when she mentions that it's not like the classical probability taught in preschool.
Re:Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone wo...
by klmadfejno on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:47PM
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Not quite what I meant. I think the comic is excellent. In case its not painfully obvious, the joke is equating lay people's poor understanding of quantum mechanics to a child's misunderstanding of sex. It's not trying to dumb down the concept of quantum computers at all, it's just trying to point out how incorrect how dumb pop science simplifications of it are. The 'qubits are bits with a range of value between 0 and 1 that use quantum magic to test all possibilities at once' is utter fiction.