Programming a quantum computer with Cirq (QuantumCasts)

Want to learn how to program a quantum computer using Cirq? In this episode of QuantumCasts, Dave Bacon (Twitter: @dabacon) teaches you what a quantum program looks like via a simple “hello qubit” program. You’ll also learn about some of the exciting challenges facing quantum programmers today, such as whether Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) processors have the ability to solve important practical problems. We’ll also delve a little into how the open source Python framework Cirq was designed to help answer that question.

[paulbrooks]

Person: is the answer A or B
Quantum Computer: Yes.

[bits]

Thank You! Finally a cohesive overview of the programming environment! Also, Yay Python!!

[gokuldas]

This truly made me like Ant-Man..
"do you guys just put the word quantum in front of everything" 😂

[eddyeffy]

I don't understand what you are saying but I won't stop watching all these videos, I believe with consistency, they will begin to make sense

[weekendresearcher]

2019: Google achieve Quantum Supremacy
2029: Google can use Quantum CNN to recognize Schrödinger's cat

[даладновам]

Programming a quantum computer. new statement:
if true then maybe...
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[doublevgreen]

awesome video. great to see videos that go past the usual "qubits can be both 1 and 0 at the same time".

[statikkkkk]

Okay time to learn quantum physics again. Hope I can still find my old textbook.

[ianprado]

The dislikes are from people overexposed in Bitcoin

[jairacarvalhojr]

Just saw the presentation by Mr. Bacon at TQC-NIST conference.
Awesome talk. Very grounded on the near term outlook. But optimistic nonetheless. Congrats 👏👍

[nigeljohnson]

How about explaining what the gates can do! There is so many new terms which are being used without first being defined, by the end you might as well be explaining in an obscure dialect of Eskimo.

[truedreams]

Quantum processors aren't binary, which means you code doesn't always have to be boiled down to binary logic, you can instead build the circuit logic in your Cirq code (with the limitations mentioned).
So if you're building for example a rock/paper/scissor game with an regular binary processor that would take many steps and computation steps, but a quantum processor would do that in one processor stroke (or whatever they're called in quantum world- quantum strokes?), as long as the logic could fit in to the circuit.

[louistech]

This is some ground breaking bleeding edge of tech learning here

[RajvirSingh]

I want some more quantum computing videos!!! Google make more videos explaining and practical uses of quantum computers please!

[dsolace]

At 4:01 Dave states that the Controlled Not gate is shown as containing an "amersand symbol", when the diagram displayed contains an @ (at sign) not an ampersand (&).

[jaimevarela]

yes sounds like a strong statement to the question of whether we can build a large scale q-computer

[parimalarenga]

Tensorflow for artificial intelligence using python...
Now Google released cirq python framework for quantum computing...

[jujharbansal]

Great video - well balanced introductory tutorial

[aichabenlahrech]

After one or two years the youtube tutorials will be like : the final video in the course, how to print "Hello world" 😴

[GeorgWilde]

So what runs faster? A simulation of a quantum computer on a classic computer or a quantum computer? I'm not optimistic.