On: Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor

[ABS]

Microsoft Research entire point is that their approach will allow

  "fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on noise-resilient, topologically protected Majorana-based qubits."

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12252

[patates → ABS]

Usually when people try to explain something about quantum computers, it feels like someone is trying to teach me what a monad is from the infamous example in some old haskell docs.

I'm not proud of my ignorance, and I sure hope that eventually if I get it, it'd be very useful for me. At least it worked like that for monads.

[pas → patates]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yHOrloxRA Bela Bauer (MS Research) - Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits

(note, I have no idea how the braiding happens, or what it means, or ... the rest of the fucking owl, but ... the part about the local indistinguishability is an important part of the puzzle, and why it helps against noise ... also have no idea what's the G-factor, but ... also have no idea what the s-wave/p-wave superconductors are, but ... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/11opcy1/comment... ... also ... phew )

[jfengel → patates]

Monads are a bad way to describe a fundamentally simple thing.

Quantum computing is genuinely hard. The hardware is an extremely specialized discipline. The software is at best a very unfamiliar kind of mathematics, and has basically nothing to do with programming. At best, it may one day be a black box that you can use to solve certain conventional programming problems quickly.