Happy World Quantum Day!

Sundays are for sipping coffee, long reads, and our newsletter, of course. Enjoy this curation of easy-to-peruse links & resources in and around quantum.

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE:

• 3 weekend links to browse: podcast on the role of open-source software in quantum; the “Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems” preprint that made waves last week has since been amended, and quantum art

• 2 resources to check out: quantum chess (your pieces may or may not be compromised) and the ambient compilation I’ve been loving while working

• 1 quote to ponder: Niels Bohr on the complexity of using English alone for science we have yet to see with our eyes

WEEKEND BYTES

• This podcast from Superposition Guy’s podcast with guest Nathan Shammah, CTO of Unitary Fund where Nathan explains the importance of open-source within the community and what open-source has to offer over enterprise in terms of error-mitigation

• Research published last week included this preprint that proposed a new polynomial time quantum algorithm to solve the Learning with Errors Problem, which would have had concerning implications for post-quantum cryptography methods. The scientific community did what it does and the verdict is: it’s buggy. The preprint has since been amended, but the author is hopeful that ideas such as windowed QFT and complex Gaussian functions will still play a significant role in similar applications

• This video from Qiskit on how to use a quantum algorithm on a physical quantum computer to make art

  

  “Teleportation Disk”, an art sculpture created using a quantum teleportation circuit run on an IBM quantum computer (Credit: Joel Russell Hoffman, the artist)

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QUANTUM CHESS

Your king may or may not be dead.

Quantum Chess introduces quantum mechanics to traditional chess, because why not? Pieces exist in multiple positions simultaneously, revolutionizing strategy through superposition and entanglement.

Watch Paul Rudd play (an older and not as sleek-looking version as the latest iteration above) with Stephen Hawking here:

WORLD CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION DAY

Not directly quantum computing — but, the United Nations designated April 21 World Creativity and Innovation Day to highlight creativity and innovation's vital role in economic, social, and sustainable development across various sectors worldwide.

As I mentioned in a previous post, quantum computing will require creativity to help us form the picture of part of our universe we are still trying to understand.

Check out this creative compilation I’ve been loving while writing/coding/reading; 2:58 is “We Dream Our World” by Lionel Schmitt and my personal most-replayed part of the compilation.

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