Many years ago, I took a graduate-level “Managerial Statistics” class. And while my classmates studied hard and practiced, I decided to gamble instead. The key word in “Managerial Statistics” is “managerial,” which I took as meaning that I only needed to interpret statistics, and not actually work out the statistics…
Several days ago, on Twitter, I saw Prof. Thomas G. Wong share his new, free, e-book titled, “Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing.” My first thought, in all honesty, was, “not another introductory quantum computing book!” But, I saw people sharing it on Twitter and LinkedIn, and then a friend…
Q-Ctrl’s Black Opal includes a single-qubit practice circuit. With it, you can choose from eight of the most basic quantum gates, drag-and-drop them to the wire, click “play,” and watch each transformation, one-by-one, slowly animate on the Bloch sphere.
Starting at |0>, what’s the difference between X and Y?
What…
This article introduces every quantum computing algorithm you need to know. Yes, there are quantum algorithm zoos with more algorithm exhibits, but those are the exhibits where everyone just takes a quick photo and walks away. The exhibits in this zoo are the ones for which you watch presentations and…
Textbook quantum teleportation has multiple flaws. The underlying premise is that we can use it for secure communication, but the restrictions that it imposes should leave you scratching your head, wondering who would communicate in such a manner.
Once you start your adventure into quantum computing, it doesn’t take long before you are introduced to the concept of noise: your results should ideally be this and that, so what are all these other numbers? Well, that’s caused by noise.
At a high level, noise is an easy concept…
It would be cinema’s all-time greatest understatement to say that Star Wars Episode V contained a bit of a revelation. Spoiler alert. Following that episodic structure, though, Black Opal episode V contains a bit of a revelation of its own….
If you’d like to catch up, my previous Black Opal…
Q-Ctrl’s Black Opal tutorials have been updated to include an intermediate-level “Circuits” module, and this is exciting for three reasons. First, as I wrote in my article, “Review: Q-Ctrl’s Black Opal Tutorials,” Q-Ctrl already reached the bar, or even pushed it a bit higher, with its initial release. Second, it’s…
After “Quantum MNIST” with dense angle encoding and “784-Dimensional Quantum MNIST” with amplitude encoding, I experimented with “Quantum-Inspired MNIST” using a classical interpretation of the quantum algorithm that can be used for Quantum Machine Learning (QML) tasks such as quantum classification and quantum clustering. …
What if you could do Machine Learning without building and training a model? What if you could forget about weights and activation functions and optimizers? What if you could exchange normalization and derivatives for addition and subtraction?
You can.
I’ll use classification as an example, using the MNIST dataset. This…
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