Obviously I don’t understand quantum computing

Watching: An Elementary Approach to Quantum Computing, ACM Tech Talks, 17 July 2025.

A useful intro to the book Building Quantum Software by the speakers, Constantin Gonciulea and Charlee Stefanski, both of Wells Fargo.

It looks like something I might be able to take a stab at reading. The ideas were presented in a way that works for me.

For example, qubits are the decision points in a binary tree (my annotation in purple):

Should I ever get around to actually reading it:

Code: https://github.com/learnqc
There’s a video course version at O’Reilly.
Rust code: https://github.com/QuState/spinoza

In the Q&A at the end of the talk, quantum computation was compared to high-performance computing. That is: there will be hardware, specialist developers, and you’ll farm some jobs out to it, but mostly developers won’t need to know much about it.

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