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Learning in Public

The whole quantum journey written down as it happens. Dated notes, dead ends included, and the proof of work that most learning content leaves out.

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  1. 10:44 Quantum Computing

    Relative phase: the invisible engine of quantum

    Probabilities cannot see it, the next gate can. Global vs relative phase, and the experiment that makes the invisible visible.

  2. 13:47 Quantum Computing

    The tensor product: why 10 qubits means 1024 numbers

    One humble operation builds the space that every multi-qubit state lives in, and explains the exponential. Two qubits in, four amplitudes out.

  3. 23:06 Quantum Computing

    I could not find a place to practise Qiskit, so I built one

    Every Qiskit tutorial I found was written for a version that no longer runs. So I built twenty exercises that check your answer by inspecting the objects your code produces.

  4. 00:24 Quantum Computing

    Entanglement, explained without the spooky

    The Bell state in two lines of code, what correlated really means, and why none of it sends messages faster than light.

  5. 12:45 Quantum Computing

    Quantum gates are just matrices you can run by hand

    X, H, Z and the rotations: applying a gate is multiplying a matrix by a vector. Literally. Worked by hand, then checked in Qiskit.