Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques

Security. Cryptography. Whatever. by Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian

Dec 18, 202453:36Technology

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&...

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