The quantum computers are coming
summary
A hands‑on tour of quantum tooling shows real circuits built on IBM Quantum Experience (Qiskit Terra/Aqua) and run 1,000 times: a Schrödinger’s‑cat circuit returns ~30% live, ~30% dead and ~40% error from noisy hardware. Alternatives covered: D‑Wave quantum annealer, Microsoft Q# and simulator integration, Rigetti Forest 2.0 with Quil and a cloud QVM. Google’s Bristlecone is cited at 72 qubits and Alibaba’s simulation reportedly uses ~130,000 processors and 1 PB RAM, so quantum advantage remains early and noisy.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:15Binary computing
- 6:30Schrodingers experiment
- 8:45Many worlds theory
- 17:40What do we need
- 23:30IBM Quantum Experience
- 29:05Kisskit
- 34:05Righetti
- 36:30Quantum cloud services
- 40:50Resources
- 44:28Questions
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