01Orient
Why quantum?
Start with the problems classical computers struggle to represent — and what quantum machines promise, cautiously.
Explore● A public research notebook
Quantum computing,
one confusion at a time.
I’m learning quantum computing in public — following the signals, testing ideas, and publishing the questions that feel worth carrying forward.
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ψsomewhere in between
not to scale
(nothing is)
This is not a course by an expert. It’s a trail of breadcrumbs from someone learning out loud — with enough structure that you can follow along.
The working desk
See the thinking
as it happens.
Not just what I know, but how I’m choosing what to learn, what I make of it, and where it leads next.
01 · Input
Learning queue
What I want to read, watch, and work through next — plus why it made the list.
See what’s next 02 · SynthesisThinking in progress
My reactions, emerging theses, changed minds, and the connections I’m trying to make.
Read the margins 03 · InquiryOpen questions
The field’s unresolved edges alongside the things I personally still need to understand.
Open the ledger 04 · EvidenceExperiment log
Interesting demonstrations, papers, and results — with my read on why they matter.
Inspect the evidenceA gentle route in
Your path through
the strange stuff.
No physics degree required. Some curiosity helps. We’ll add the math when it earns its keep.
02Foundations
Meet the qubit
Build intuition for states, amplitudes, phase, and measurement before the notation starts to pile up.
Explore03Patterns
Circuits & entanglement
See how simple gates combine into behaviors that have no comfortable classical equivalent.
Explore04Reality check
Noise & hardware
Connect the clean diagrams to fragile physical systems, error correction, and today’s real limitations.
Explore05Frontier
Algorithms & questions
Explore where advantage may live — and which claims are still hypotheses, engineering goals, or hype.
ExploreLatest field notes
Fresh from the notebook.
Day 1: What are particles doing when we’re not looking?
A beginner’s first encounter with the double-slit experiment, the temptation to anthropomorphize particles, and the feeling of entering a much bigger world.
Question I’m carrying from Day 1
What does “observation” physically mean in quantum mechanics?
The double-slit experiment makes it tempting to say particles behave differently when they are watched. I want to understand what counts as measurement, why human attention is irrelevant, and what it means for path information to be available.
Follow the threadConfusion is not a detour.
It’s the map being drawn.
If you’re curious, skeptical, or simply trying to keep the bras and kets straight — you’re in good company.
Why I’m learning this