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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Into the Wild with Kanye West

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www.nature.com 8y ago

Programming languages and compiler design for realistic quantum hardware

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arxiv.org 8y ago

Quantum Machine Learning [pdf]

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groups.csail.mit.edu 8y ago

Improving Compiler Heuristics with Machine Learning [pdf]

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arxiv.org 8y ago

A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits

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www.nature.com 8y ago

First quantum computers need smart software [pdf]

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www.spectrum.ieee.org 8y ago

Tiny Quantum Computer Simulates Complex Molecules

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github.com 8y ago

Oqaml: An OCaml Based Implementation of a Quil Quantum Vitual Machine

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www.paulgraham.com 8y ago

How the BST Code Was Broken

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tryarc.org 8y ago

Try Arc: Arc REPL in Your Browser

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users.cms.caltech.edu 8y ago

Scalable computer programming languages

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blog.teknik.io 8y ago

Answers from 2017 Common Lisp experts

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tvmlang.org 8y ago

TVM: An IR Stack for Deploying the Deep Learning Workloads to Hardwares

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thenewstack.io 8y ago

Rigetti Introduces Developers to Quantum Computing Through a Serverless API

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github.com 8y ago

Femtolisp: A lightweight,robust,scheme-like lisp implementation

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www.nobelprize.org 8y ago

Richard P. Feynman – Nobel Lecture (1965)

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www.reddit.com 8y ago

I (jbenet) will respond to a bunch of questions here

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people.eecs.berkeley.edu 9y ago

Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer [pdf]

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www.claymath.org 9y ago

Quantum Yang–Mills Theory [pdf]

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advances.sciencemag.org 9y ago

Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer

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www.cs.rice.edu 9y ago

Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques [pdf]

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Yearning for New Physics at CERN, in a Post-Higgs Way

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inconvergent.net 9y ago

Snek: An experimental system for writing generative art systems

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www.bbc.co.uk 9y ago

Quantum Supremacy [AUDIO]

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arxiv.org 9y ago

A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture

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eli.thegreenplace.net 9y ago

Adventures in JIT Compilation: Part 3 – LLVM

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Waymo’s claims of trade secret theft could result in criminal case

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paulgraham.com 9y ago

Quotes

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forest.rigetti.com 9y ago

FOREST: An API for Quantum Computing in the Cloud

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michaelnielsen.org 9y ago

Quantum computing for everyone (2008)

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Linear Algebra is very important for Quantum Computing. You have a masters in engineering, so you shouldn't have any problems with the math. I suggest you review the basics of Linear Algebra if you haven't applied that knowledge in a while.

John Preskill's lecture notes are invaluable. They start from the basics of Quantum Computing, to Quantum Theory, all the way to advanced concepts such as Topological Quantum Computation:http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/

You can also look over the Quantum Computation course that is hosted at OCW. The instructor for this course was Peter Shor who invented the seminal "Shor's Algorithm":https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-435j-quantum-comp...

These will be enough to get you started, but it is good apply your knowledge by implementing the quantum algorithms that you have learned.There is a huge list of simulators you can use:https://www.quantiki.org/wiki/list-qc-simulators

I know you want references to open courses, but reading papers shouldn't hurt either. I don't know how much experience you have with Quantum Mechanics, but this paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0261 explains Quantum Computing very well by referring to concepts in Classical Computing. You should read this first if you are not familiar with Quantum Mechanics.

Let me know if you have any questions and good luck!

Wow, this thread has made me realize that I don't actually have any friends (I'm 20 btw). I just have acquaintances, and I realize that I actually like being alone as long as I entertain myself. Anyone else like me out there?

How is this better than an OS based on http, besides privacy and democracy? I'm very interested in this idea, I just don't know if "normal" people care enough about P2P for something like this to receive mainstream adoption.