this is a quantum computer! my friend Marques and
I got to go see it when we visited IBM recently. quantum computers are crazy and they have the
potential to change what we can do with computers but they're not just a better faster version of
the kinds of computers that we use now. they're something really different and they're good for
different things. here's an analogy that helped me understand this... imagine that you're
on a video game map and how you get around depends on how good you
are at doing math. not
having a computer is like walking. so you can discover a lot but it takes forever. but then we
invented computers and they're like cars. we can get farther faster than we could before. and
our computers kept getting better and better so our cars kept getting faster and faster. but
quantum computers aren't faster cars. think of them instead like boats. a boat isn't better or
worse than a car. it's just built for a different terrain. with quantum computers we're starti
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to be able to navigate different mathematical waters and find solutions that our traditional
computers just can't. I made a longer video about what exactly we're expecting to find in
these waters and how quantum computers might actually impact our lives. so go watch it and if
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