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Dec 2024
53m 36s

Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Sam...

Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian
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THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING...right? We got Samuel Jacques and John Schanck at short notice to answer that question plus a bunch of other about error correcting codes, logical qubits, T-gates, and more about Google's new quantum computer Willow. Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/18/quantum-willow Links: - https://blog.googl ... Show More
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