>>12045569So I'm 30, just landed a ML job at a startup
we just had our first paper come out last year on quantum machine learning (no I won't doxx us), and I can tell you that ML skills wont go out of style anytime soon
even though this startup uses ML, no one seems to actually know how to code. And that' hilarious, because I came in and scripted some shit and they were amazed.
Computer skills will never, ever go out of style. And you don't gain that by just taking some python tutorials.
quantum computing will take a while to get anywhere. Its not scaling at moore's law rates and probably wont. Even more fun, is no one knows shit about how algorithms will work and what you can actually do with it. It's like dropping a modern day supercomputer in the 50s and having them try to figure out what you can use all the processing power for and how to even build algorithms that work and what those algorithms can do. It's not easy to see right off the bat.
Classifiers and algorithms will look very different thanks to the nature of quantum. We don't even have RAM yet in quantum computers, so data storage isn't a thing. A paper just came out about data-reuploading and classifying using a single qubit, which was pretty cool, but again we can't draw parellels between classical and quantum computing; they are so different from each other we are basically reinventing computation from 0s and 1s again, and discovering basic logic gates and basic algorithms you learn in CS 101.
There's a lot of potential in this field.
