Build your own quantum computer with Google's latest 'simulator':
World Quantum Day was apparently yesterday [Ed: 14 April], and Google feted the occasion with the launch of The Qubit Game, as spotted by 9to5Google. Created in partnership with Doublespeak games, it's a "playful journey to building a quantum computer, one qubit at a time," Google said. It also hopes the game, and World Quantum Day, will help generate some interest in the field.
"We need more students pursuing careers building or using quantum computers, and understanding what it would be like to be a quantum scientist or engineer," wrote Asfaw. "For me, that's what World Quantum Day is all about: showing everyone what quantum computing really is and how they can get involved."
The game is somewhat addicting, but you need to play it on a larger screen because the further you advance, the more desktop screen space it takes up, as you can see near the end of their promo video on YouTube.
The game is part of the National Q-12 Educational Partnership set up to expand learning tools about quantum computing to K-12 education. The goals in bringing this into classrooms are to generate interest in young people to pursue careers in building or using quantum computers as well as to explain to the broader public how quantum computing can change their lives.
There are a number of educational resources available aimed at different age levels, including a quantum chess game.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @12:08AM (10 children)
So I played the Qubit game, which appears to be some kind of wannabe 4X game with a tech tree, but I still have no idea how quantum computing will change my life. All you do in the game is play Maxwell's demon. I have no idea what quantum computing can be used for.
At least quantum chess is interesting, but that too tells me nothing about quantum computing.
Is there a single practical application for quantum computing yet? Or is this like NFTs? Can quantum computing be used to make NFTs?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @12:33AM (1 child)
With quantum computing, you can be the first poster and the last poster at the same time.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Saturday April 23 2022, @09:02AM
Given the right kind of article, I can be the first poster and the last poster at the same time even without quantum computing!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday April 23 2022, @12:37AM
In this case, you can bet Google is watching everything you do, just in case you come up with a good idea.
(Score: 1) by Puffin on Saturday April 23 2022, @12:51AM (1 child)
Can something be a simulation of something that is not yet real? We will have to wait until we have quantum computing to calculate the answer!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 23 2022, @07:31AM
Quantum computers are real. They just have very few qubits, which limits their current usefulness massively.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @11:50AM
>> Is there a single practical application for quantum computing yet?
The UCLA Department of Gender Studies (https://gender.ucla.edu/) is using them in a research project to determine if there's a physical limit to the number of possible genders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @01:07PM (1 child)
Breaking encryption. Or so they claim.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 23 2022, @11:27PM
Which is why the latest version of ssh has an encryption method thought to be resistant to quantum attacks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @02:00PM (1 child)
>> Is there a single practical application for quantum computing yet?
The UCLA Department of Incel Studies (https://incel.ucla.edu/) is using them in a research project to determine if there's a physical limit to the whininess, and also the weight, of incels in their parents' basements.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @10:56PM
While incel gender is fascinating, what I really want to know is whether quantum programming will be more like relational algebra or the lambda calculus.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @12:53AM
FUCK YOU CIA NIGGERS!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @01:59AM
If you're a nigger and you know it clap your hands!
If you're a nigger and you know it then your face will surely show it
If you're a nigger and you know it clap your feet!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @03:35AM
More like boring, as I just sat there waiting for the things to "cohere" and fending off the ridiculously easy heat globs. They need to make the build user-input driven without the stupid wait time.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @06:50AM (3 children)
So, if there where more warnings, about quantum computing deaths, then, there would be more quantum computing deaths, due to the inverse Schrödinger's Cat theorem. Quantum Mechanics, with a "promo" video? How far science has fallen, and how much further SN has fallen by front paging such tripe. [For any interested, "tripe" is cow guts, precisely the articulated lining of the stomach.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @12:10PM (2 children)
Is there a SoylentNews back page?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2022, @08:19PM (1 child)
It is #soylent on IRC. But caution, it is lousy with janrinok entanglements.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2022, @06:57AM
This looks like an aristarchus comment. I will spam mod it, for great justice!