Tom Scott
This isn’t going to give you all the details of how to program a quantum computer: but it’ll at least explain what you’re doing in the simulator! Play here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/research/quantum/outreach/qcloud/simulator/ — I don’t understand it, but then I don’t have a qualification in quantum physics!
Thanks to Jacques Carolan, and all the team at Bristol University’s Centre for Quantum Photonics — and thanks to Tom Morris for holding the camera!
And if you don’t know about the double slit experiment, and wave-particle duality, there’s a lovely explanation from Jim Al-Khalili at the Royal Institution here: https://youtu.be/A9tKncAdlHQ
Tom’s site: http://tomscott.com
@tomscott: http://twitter.com/tomscott
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+Tom Scott i truly love your narrative man, i watch every single video you have, even if im not really interested in the subject, just because the way you present things is so awesome… Hats off to you good sir
Did I just hear the terms 'beautiful' and 'quantum physics' next to each other?
That laugh tho 2:18 😀
But does it run Chrome?
Can it run Doom?
Yes, I think it's a pretty safe bet to say most people might not know how to program a quantum computer.
Let's see how this baby runs.
and yet still all it will be used for is to look at porn
But does it run MineCraft on max settings?
Went to quantum in the cloud, only to realize you need a access token in order to do it. Why?!
Can it run DOOM?
We'll know if it works when someone manages to get DOOM running on it.
Wait this is in Bristol that is where I live
But can it run Minecraft?
Can Schroedinger’s cat program it?
(chatter chatter chatter) > me half listening distracted by something else
( mention of optical waveguides on a chip allowing much smaller and more easily controlled QCs ) > Oh HE-llo, that's something new and groovy.
Get to the point of cramming a few thousand of those into the space of a lunchbox and you've got yourself the quantum equivalent of the Intel 4004, and then we can really start cooking.
2:15 Tom is teaching that guy
Is this quantum RAM?
I'm so confused, but can it play Minecraft?
Hopefully my future job! (Almost certainly not at bristol though)
“Problem was in the olden days, when you wanted to design a quantum computer”
But could we explain it like I’m five. Or new.
Tt I see you 👀
Itsokayitsokayitsjustme
Brilliant. I have absolutely no idea what's going on.
this seems to be a way of quantum computing which could be in desktops soon unlike those quantum computers which need to cool the chip down to near absolute zero.
SINE WAVE………..
That absolute joy on Tom's face when applying coding principles to light was pure brilliance. I love watching clever people getting excited about clever things and most of all other clever people, and that was everyone there.
I think the public at large could very much benefit from a lucid explanation of how quantum computing would work, what quantum computers can do, and what they most certainly can't do… As-is, this is nothing more than a "gimmick" for the "eggheads". Being able to process every possible state of a given model at the same step could be enormously valuable — instead of iterating through each possible path (and therefore taking enormous amounts of time), you'd be essentially running them all at the same time (sort of like having a PC with as many cores as there are possible outcomes of the calculation), and your algorithmic complexity would essentially boil down to the number of 'steps' or 'clocks' any given operation requires — but this isn't being clearly communicated.
To nerds nerding out
But does it run Minecraft?