[hellojebus]

This was me yesterday after reading the official Willow release.

Spent yesterday afternoon and this morning learning what I could. I'm now superficially familiar with quantum coherence, superposition, and phase relationships.

In other words, you got this. Now I gotta learn linear algebra. brb.

[billti]

I gave a plug for this yesterday, but if you want to try the Quantum Katas from Azure Quantum, it runs in the browser and covers this stuff. See lesson 3 for linear algebra. <https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/tools/quantum-katas>

One thing I did forget to mention is that you can play with this stuff in a "familiar to software developers" way in our VS Code playground at <https://vscode.dev/quantum/playground/> . This is a 'code first' approach familiar to software developers leveraging VS Code integration. The playground is pre-populated with a bunch of common quantum algorithms.

You can also install the extension in VS Code directly (<https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=quantum....>), you don't need to run it in the browser, but even in the browser it has a fully working language service, debugger, evaluator, quantum simulator, package management, etc. It's all written in Rust and compiled to either Wasm for the browser and VS Code extension, or native code for the Python package. (I'm thinking about doing a video on how we build it, as I expect it will interesting to this type of crowd. Let me know if so).

Disclaimer: I work in Azure Quantum on the product mentioned. AMA.

[MicrosoftShill]

Hey there - professionally I'm a sr cloud engineer focused on Azure. I have an interest in quantum as a hobbyist and maybe a career focus in coming years/decades. Katas seems like a good place to learn things, but if you were to give a 5 year outlook, what specifically should I be looking into? Is there something as an administrator/architect of these quantum products that I should focus expertise on? Or something in the Azure/O365/etc ecosystem I should be looking at that leverages these technologies? If I was to become a consultant, what would be my focus as an Azure cloud engineer in relation to quantum technologies?

I'm unsure I am even asking the right questions. I'd appreciate any direction you can give me!

[CSMastermind]

> Now I gotta learn linear algebra.

Linear algebra does seem to be a hard wall I've seen many smart software engineers hit. I'd honestly love for someone to study the phenomenon and figure out why this is.

[bloomingkales]

Curriculum pacing? Linear Algebra may be showing up at the wrong time during the 4 years.

[anon291]

It seems wild to me since linear algebra is at the heart of basically all modern mathematics (alright maybe not all but so many things exhibit linear behavior, that it's still useful). Don't most CS majors require some math today? Linalg is like first year college, right?

[RockRobotRock]

I enjoy engineering. I hate math.

[jackphilson]

I would recommend mathacademy.