Re:The Google Willow Thing
by nsxwolf on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:53PM
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I have a treadmill though. Even though I don't use it. I can't get a quantum computer.
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Here's a free quantum treadmill
https://www.quantumplayground.net/#/home
You don't need a "real" quantum computer to mess around with quantum computing and learn how it works any more than you need a supercomputer to play around with algorithms and learn how they work.
most experts in that field do not have access to a quantum computer. For the longest times it was a very theoretical field.
Having access to a physical machine will not help you for 99% of the knowledge you can acquire in that field right now.
Everyone forgets people have been doing quantum computing research for decades.
Shor's algorithm is from 1994.
not computer, but you can definitely get a quantum devkit (an "emulator") and dabble with it.
How can you get it?
Re:The Google Willow Thing
by porridgeraisin on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:55AM
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Also, Azure let's you run quantum code.
You can in general start with these search keywords: qiskit caterpillar yosys.
i think you can. A very simple one - an optical based one, one qubit. Several thousand dollars of equipment of a typical university photon quantum entanglement lab.