interesting read! I still havent had a reason to play with quantum computing. This article makes it seem less challenging to approach, maybe ill give it a try sometime.

The number labels of the x-axis represent the different answers from the magic 8-ball in the following order: “Yes” (001), “Not today” (001), “Definitely” (010), “Try again” (011), “Signs point to yes” (100), “Not likely” (101), “Sure thing!” (110), and “Outlook not so good” (111).

Assuming this is a mistype? Yes and Not Today are both “001”. Should “Yes” actually be “000” (which is the label used on the graph above this paragraph

Generating three random bits.. Saved you a click

Since it's IBM sponsored/supported they probably didn't want to tell the reader that you can simulate a quantum computer on classical hardware. So no need to use their service to use "the real" thing.

Incredible, the future is now

Did they disentangle their superpositions? I know I hate it when that happens to me.

Often it happens with me and your mom

Oh you found her? If she's alive tell her I don't care as and if she's dead then just get professional help because bruh.

I found her in a box and am nervous to conclusively check to see if she is dead or not.

I could save on therapy if I never open it right?

Yeah I've gotta advise against collapsing that wave function.

I got interested in quantum computing as a way to combat quantum mysticism. Quantum mystics love to use quantum mechanics to justify their mystical claims, like quantum immortality, quantum consciousness, quantum healing, etc. Some mystics use quantum mechanics to "prove" things like we all live inside of a big "cosmic consciousness" and there is no objective reality, and they often reference papers published in the actual academic literature.

These papers on quantum foundations are almost universally framed in terms of a quantum circuit, because this deals with quantum information science, giving you a logical argument as to something "weird" about quantum mechanic's logical structure, as shown in things like Bell's theorem, the Frauchiger-Renner paradox, the Elitzur-Vaidman paradox, etc.

If a person claims something mystical and sends you a paper, and you can't understand the paper, how are you supposed to respond? But you can use quantum computing as a tool to help you learn quantum information science so that you can eventually parse the paper, and then you can know how to rebut their mystical claims. But without actually studying the mathematics you will be at a loss.

You have to put some effort into understanding the mathematics. If you just go vaguely off of what you see in YouTube videos then you're not going to understand what is actually being talked about. You can go through for example IBM's courses on the basics of quantum computing and read a textbook on quantum computing and it gives you the foundations in quantum information science needed to actually parse the logical arguments in these papers and what they are really trying to say.

think you replied to the wrong comment or something