Beginner Archives

• Went over a little bit of housekeeping (i.e. I go over a new format I wanted to try out for reading group meetings given that learning labs will be coming soon!)
• Read an excerpt of Q is for Quantum (listed under the "Readings for next meeting..." section of this post). We read pages 9-20!
• Took a brief look at IBM's Quantum Composer

• Answered some of your questions on Grover's Algorithm
• Discussed some practical usages of the algorithm as well as further look into how the algorithm works
• Emily sidetracked a bit, but she gave some insight as to how we could build both AND and OR gates in Qiskit!
• No assignments for the break! Optional papers will be shared as I come across them, but relax all you want otherwise

• Briefly recapped Grover's (not included in the recording, though I basically just repeated what I said in first discussion!)
• Summarized conjugate coding + answered some questions y'all had

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• Got to know each other! (If you weren't at the meeting, watch the recording and please share your answers in chat!)
• Got an intro to superposition, bra-ket notation, and polarization
• Em kinda struggled with her touch screen and her freestyling-with-the-lesson today, so she hopes that you will ask her questions if you have any

• Read the rest of Part 1 of Q is for Quantum (or if you didn't attend the meeting, read the whole part starting from page 9!). Take your time, and go back and re-read whenever you need to!
• Read Lecture 3 and Section 4.1 of Scott Aaronson's lecture notes. The reading we read at the meeting didn't involve any math, so you may find these notes useful if you're interested in the math (note: linear algebra background is useful for this reading!).
• I definitely didn't give Terry Rudolph enough justice when I brought him up. You can read a little more about who he is here!: