Also a customer here, DatoCMS is fantastic product. We run hundreds of sites on their platform. Their team also works with you on pricing as you scale.
This reminded me of the Knowledge Project podcast with Dr. Rhonda Patrick on certain biomarkers, including omega index as an indicator for longer life span.
We've been using Mercure for 3+ years in production. It's been pretty much set it and forget it. Maybe once a year do we have to maintain the server e.g. clear up space, but overall has been great for our use case (which does not need full pub/sub).
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.
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.
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!
What do you hope to be doing in 5 years? Architecting quantum solutions? Reselling or consulting on cloud solutions? Building quantum applications?
I think the quantum space will have quite a bit of progress in 5 years, but I think most experts in the space (of which I'm NOT one) think we're still over 5 years out before there's broad adoption on running quantum programs with significant business value. (i.e, it'll still largely be researchers and bleeding edge adopters).
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.
Linear algebra is a relatively straight forward subject. I won't say easy because there are bits that aren't, and I struggled with it when I was first exposed to it in college. But in graduate school revisited it and didn't have a problem.
So, I really agree that it's about timing and curriculum. For one, it appears somewhat abstract until you really understand geometrically what's happening.
So, I surmise that most non-mathematicians don't have quite the mathematical maturity to absorb the standard pedagogy when they first approach the subject.
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?
Yes, but most people, like me, never gain even remotely intuitive understanding of it and quickly forget it after passing a few dreadful exams. Just like with most other math.
We use the 418 response code in our authentication service. We use to determine whether the token is invalid due to expiration, vs any other reason. If 418, we know to refresh to access token automatically... pretty harmless and definitely not a security measure.
Good one. In general a tricky thing to be aware of with vim: when I add a new variant that uses more characters, the ones with less characters will get a delay.
I presume one can tweak that delay even. But personally, I'll make all the shortcuts "symmetric", eventually. Indeed "gs" or "gv". In other cases, It'd become "gds", "gdd" or such. But "eventually", I try to change stuff more permanently once I see how I actually use it over a few days or weeks.
I used to be local teen that would fix everyones Playstation 3's, when they got the red light of death. I used to do the heat gun trick to get them back up, but decided to also try an oven at one point (it worked). I wonder if this was the same phenomenon...
My understanding is that the ps3 and 360 had similar (but not entirely identical) issues, but the common "repair" on the ps3 was to change some unique (NEC tokin) capacitors around the CPU/GPU... only problem was that, like the hotbox "repair" it would fail again within a month if it worked at all.
I'm by no means an advocate of this library, and never plan to use it, but to support component props that trigger rerenders, a'la React/Vue, I would use JS Proxies here. Wouldn't be that hard to implement.
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