A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics
This is a really great resource that introduces some fairly sophisticated ideas. I'm about to be negative but I genuinely mean that; I'm planning to go back to it. I was finding it took time to take in the ideas about C^2.<p>However<p>> Presented in a new mnemonic medium which makes it almost effortless to remember what you read<p>This is just nonsense and quite distracting, even irritating. Quantum computing and quantum mechanics is hard and involves sophisticated concepts. The spaced repetition questions are utterly superficial and represent unhelpful dumbing down.<p>Apologies for the rant and slightly silly comparison between quantum physics and a programming language but the same goes for the Rust book. Rust is a hard language with sophisticated ideas. Despite the best intentions of the nice people at Mozilla, no amount of dumbing down changes that. And patronizing readers does not make the resource more approachable to women and under-represented minorities, unless you believe that those groups need to be patronized.<p>> The set of curly brackets, {}, is a placeholder: think of {} as little crab pincers that hold a value in place.