Quantum Computing - Beyond bits - a primer
What is it? What’s the next big thing in computing? Not the #AI or #blockchain’s of the world, that is starting to happen today (albeit a little early)? Quantum computing is one of those next big things, that is on the horizon (probably in the ~5 years range). Why do I care? Why do I care about quantum? Well, some problems are simply not solvable on convention digital computers – the kind we have today – these are called “classical” machines. Even if Moore’s law did continue (and that is a whole different debate), are the still some problems whose scaling obey a different set of properties and law; and the double of transistors on a chip wont really help. In fact, some of these problems require longer than the lifetime of the universe – and that is with the biggest, and fastest supercomputers available! ...