We've now published "Quantum mechanics distilled," which explains the foundational principles of quantum mechanics in detail. Thank you for your thoughtful feedback during the preview phase! And, of course, for your support.
We're looking forward to learning from readers' interactions with the application prompts. We'll le...
2020-03-23 19:28:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all! This evening we're sharing early access to the final essay on Quantum Country, which also includes the most significant expansion we've made to the mnemonic medium itself.
This essay explains the core principles of quantum mechanics in depth and ...
2020-03-16 04:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
You may have noticed some significant changes in the notifications, cards, and progress displays in the last few weeks. We've been testing and iterating on a new set of designs with new users for months, and we expanded those new behaviors to older users a few weeks ago.
We'd be curious to hear your high-level impressions of the new behaviors you've been seeing. In fact, even just hearing...
2019-11-26 17:02:29 +0000 UTC View PostThis isn't directly related to Quantum Country. It's a small private side project Michael carried out, which may perhaps be of interest to some of you. It's his working notes on the cost of direct air carbon capture as an approach to climate change:
http://cognitivemedium.com/dac-notes
Hard to sum up ...
2019-11-21 20:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
We've just made the quantum teleportation essay public. In case you didn't see the announcement of the early release version, this is a new mnemonic essay which explains in detail how quantum teleportation works. Teleportation is fun (and surprising!), and also a fundamental primitive used in many ways in quantum computing and quantum information.
The essay is available...
2019-11-12 21:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostJust to let you know, we did the public release of our new essay on tools for thought! It's available at: https://numinous.productions/ttft/
Thank you to those of you who provided feedback on the early release version.
Enjoy!
Michael
2019-10-04 00:26:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Hello, all! Earlier today, we had to take this essay down because it'd been shared, but now it should be accessible using your Patreon credentials. Please let us know if you have any trouble!]
This is a draft of an essay Michael and I have poured time into over the past few months. We thought you might enjoy an early peek, just for our backers:
Update: Unfortunately, we've had to temporarily take this down because it seems the link was shared. We'll put it back in the next day or so behind a Patreon login.
This is a draft of an essay Andy and I have poured time into over the past few months. Please don't share the URL, since we're still working on the essay! But we thought you might enjoy an early peek:
In this essay we explain in detail how quantum teleportation works. Teleportation is fun (and surprising!), and also a fundamental primitive in many ideas about quantum computing and quantum information.
If you'd like to read the essay, please use the following link:
https://quantum.country/tele...
2019-06-06 02:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick update: the teleportation essay, "How quantum teleportation works", is coming along nicely, and should be available in alpha in early June.
We're also working on a broader essay, setting out some ideas about how quantum.country can be developed as a learning medium. Hopefully that'll be in alpha in late June or July, though writing it is a slow (but enjoyable!) pr...
2019-05-25 15:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We've just published the second "mnemonic essay" in our series on quantum computation. It's an introduction to the world of quantum algorithms through the lens of the search algorithm in particular, which has the very surprising property of being able to search a list in √N time.
The essay is substantially better because of the feedback we've received from you all during the testing pha...
2019-04-17 17:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a followup to "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious". Using just the ideas from that essay, we explain in detail how the quantum search algorithm works. This algorithm does something remarkable: it can search a search space of N items after examining the search space something like the square root of N times. The first time I heard this I was shocked, and convinced it must...
2019-04-01 16:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post