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quantum computing feels like quackery

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.06.22

It's all very cool that we actually have this technology at last. But it doesn't seem to matter how many of these videos I watch, I can only grasp the edges. How do we arrange lasting entanglement for a duration useful for calculations? When the information medium has a useful lifespan in millionths of seconds, surely the applications are limited?

rand()m quote

... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

—Jonathan Rosenberg