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…

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…

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…

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. …

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. …

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…

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 It was obvious when ChatGPT was first released publicly that the information it was trained on was a bit outdated.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. …

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…

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…