alt Hacker News> I felt this was a much better layman explanation of what a quantum computer does than simply saying a quantum computer runs all possible paths in parallel.
Relevant concerning your point:
> "The Talk"
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dogtimeimmortal • yesterday at 8:53 PM
Thanks for this! I guess i need to read up on Hilbert Space.
...and Shor's Algorithm
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That comic is great I understand qubits a bit better now: it has 4 degrees of freedom but can be mapped onto the 2d surface of a sphere because of normalization (circle rule) and global phase symmetry which each take away one of the four DOF
I need a longer think on the interference/computation connection though