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Re:Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their P... by VagabundoP on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @11:53AM (#37483145)
I can't picture quantum computers. They make no sense to me. Logic gates are just baked into my brain.
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Re:Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their P... by loa_in_ on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:38PM (#37483903)
There is evidence of logic gate analogues in biological neural networks, so this might be an analogy or even a straight statement of a fact!
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Re:Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their P... by anon____ on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:01PM (#37484261)
Scott Aaronson made a comic with Zach Weinersmith that explains quantum computing in an entertaining way:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

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Re:Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their P... by nuancebydefault on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:26PM (#37485331)
Wow!
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Re:Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their P... by pseudosudoer on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:04PM (#37484297)
Once the map between entanglement and exponential parallelism is clear, quantum computing becomes a breeze /s. Seriously though, entanglement is the root of what makes quantum computing useful.

One subset of problems that are solved exponentially faster are those that intersect with tensor products. Entanglement essentially "is" a tensor product of the probabilistic state space of two qubits.

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