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Brian N. Siegelwax
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Quantum Computing Product Menu

May I take your order, please? I have evaluated 136 quantum computing frameworks, platforms, and utilities. Out of those 136, only 8 are permanent tools in my toolkit. Out of the rest, there are a few that I am quite fond of, but that I just don’t need for projects. There are others that I like…

Quantum

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Quantum Computing Product Menu
Quantum Computing Product Menu
Quantum

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The Modern Scientist

·20 hours ago

Mathematics is Overrated

And I’ll prove it. I know people who think that you can’t learn quantum computing without mathematics, and that you certainly can’t do quantum computing without mathematics, but guess what? Quantum computers don’t understand mathematics. Me: “Hey, photon, what’s bra-ket notation?” Photon: “What?” Me: “Hey, atom, what’s linear algebra?” Atom: “What?” I should rest…

Quantum

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Mathematics is Overrated
Mathematics is Overrated
Quantum

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The Modern Scientist

·4 days ago

Superstaq: The Compiler of Tomorrow

Able to leap deep circuits in a single bound! So, Infleqtion’s Superstaq is supposed to be able to solve all of my “current quantum needs.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it. For my money, there’s only one benchmark that matters: Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE). It’s the algorithm we’re all waiting to run, but it generates…

Quantum

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Superstaq: The Compiler of Tomorrow
Superstaq: The Compiler of Tomorrow
Quantum

6 min read


Published in

The Modern Scientist

·6 days ago

Hello, QuTech world!

Adventures with Starmon-5 I’ve selfishly kept this little gem a secret for the past few years, but it’s past time to show my appreciation in writing. If I find myself in a random conversation about quantum computing, I’ll happily do an impromptu demonstration with a real quantum computer. But there’s no time to…

Quantum

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Hello, QuTech world!
Hello, QuTech world!
Quantum

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Level Up Coding

·Nov 11

18 Million Shots

3 jobs x 300 circuits each x 20k shots per circuit I was having a LinkedIn conversation with Dr. Thomas Ehmer during which he stated that he uses Strangeworks to run higher shot counts on free IBM backends. But IBM has a free way of boosting shot counts, so I let him know about batch jobs. He then suggested I write…

Quantum

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18 Million Shots
18 Million Shots
Quantum

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Nov 9

Phantom Quantum Products

Harry Houdini would be proud. I am on a glorious mission to find and play with every quantum computing product I possibly can. I’m maintaining a partial, public list at “Quantum Computing Product Menu,” but I actually have a much larger private list. And in aggregating these two lists, I have thus far discovered four…

Quantum

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Phantom Quantum Products
Phantom Quantum Products
Quantum

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The Modern Scientist

·Nov 2

Quantum Computing Product Tester

Misusing and Abusing the Classiq Platform I’m on a glorious quest to evaluate every quantum computing product I can possibly find. My “Quantum Computing Product Menu” has become my most successful article on Medium. But not all products can be simply assessed as either they work or they don’t. To determine if something really works, you…

Quantum Computing

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Quantum Computing Product Tester
Quantum Computing Product Tester
Quantum Computing

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Oct 20

ChatGPT vs Bing Copilot

One is more user “friendly” than the other…. It was obvious when ChatGPT was first released publicly that the information it was trained on was a bit outdated. In contrast, I noticed that Copilot seems to be surfing the web in real time. Well, I’m on the web; I wonder what it “knows” about me. And, in fairness…

AI

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ChatGPT vs Bing Copilot
ChatGPT vs Bing Copilot
AI

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Sep 25

Shotgun Quantum Computing

The Only Way to Use IBM Quantum One of the comments on the above poll asked about two things: reservations and least_busy. You could click on the link and view my response directly, but I’ll go into a little more detail here. I’ll also draw a little more attention to my not-so-highly-classified 2023 strategy for trying to…

Quantum

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Shotgun Quantum Computing
Shotgun Quantum Computing
Quantum

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Sep 19

Review: IBM Quantum Learning

In Loving Memory of the 2nd IBMQ Tutorials Thanks to Jack Krupansky for suggesting this review. I have historically published reviews only if I’ve been able to identify more “The Good” than “The Bad” and “The Ugly.” That won’t be the case here, but an in-progress LinkedIn poll is showing that honest assessments are in demand, even if…

Quantum

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Review: IBM Quantum Learning
Review: IBM Quantum Learning
Quantum

4 min read

Brian N. Siegelwax

Brian N. Siegelwax

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Independent Quantum Algorithm Designer https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-siegelwax https://twitter.com/BSiegelwax?s=09 https://github.com/bsiegelwax

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