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Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing
Mon, Feb 17, 2020 ·
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Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more generally.
Timestamps
- 5:07 - Role of philosophy in science
- 29:27 - What is a quantum computer?
- 41:12 - Quantum decoherence (noise in quantum information)
- 49:22 - Quantum computer engineering challenges
- 51:00 - Moore's Law
- 56:33 - Quantum supremacy
- 1:12:18 - Using quantum computers to break cryptography
- 1:17:11 - Practical application of quantum computers
- 1:22:18 - Quantum machine learning, questinable claims, and cautious optimism
- 1:30:53 - Meaning of life
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