>>14416300no
>>14416561You need to understand the basics, but to do anything interesting, you should understand the postulates of quantum mechanical theories even if you don't really know what the theories discuss. This means being very comfortable with funny brackets.
IMO the most interesting stuff involves both the physics and CS perspectives.
>>14417806Rudimentary quantum computers exist and can be publicly queried to do tasks
>inb4 locklinfaglocklin was a combination of wrong and misinformed in his post. everything he's said has had a pretty obvious refutation
>>14417830nobody who works in this field overplays it. people like preskill, literal leaders of the technology, constantly mention that it's incredibly immature technology that will need decades of focused research on both the theory and applied sides to realize, but the media doesn't care when google shows off its shiny new sycamore processor.
