All Quantum Computing Posts
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Quantum Computing
Helium-3 Alternatives: Every Exit From the Shortage, Assessed
Ten engineering escape routes and one geopolitical wildcard for quantum computing's scarcest input, from breeding tritium on purpose to cooling qubits from inside the chip. I assess what each can deliver, what blocks it, and what would change the answer.
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Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics. Everybody Uses It.
A board member accused me of selling a technology nobody understands. He was half right. The interpretation of quantum mechanics is unresolved. The mathematics has been tested to twelve decimal places and runs your phone.
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Microsoft’s Majorana Qubit: What the Experts Actually Think
I've never trusted the Majorana story, but I'm no condensed-matter physicist. So after the latest chip and the latest Nature rebuttal, I went looking for where the experts, skeptics and defenders both, actually land.
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Quantum Snake Oil Is Flooding the News Cycle — and the Industry Is Letting It Happen
Three extraordinary quantum claims in two weeks, none peer-reviewed, all tied to commercial events. The quantum industry's credibility problem is accelerating, and the people paying the price are the enterprises trying to make real migration decisions.
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Every Quantum Salary Guide I’ve Seen Is Fake. Here’s How I Proved It.
Recruitment agencies are flooding the market with "benchmarked" quantum salary data. I reverse-engineered the numbers in five different guides. Every single one was built from a formula, not from actual placement data.
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The Quantum Utility Ladder: What Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers Will Actually Be Used For
Most quantum computing coverage fixates on breaking encryption. The real near-term story is utility — chemistry, materials, energy, drug design. This article maps every major fault-tolerant quantum algorithm to its logical qubit requirements, T-gate costs, and the real-world problem it solves, from photosensitizer calculations at 350 qubits to bulk solid-state physics at 100,000. The ladder is lumpier — and more honest — than the pitch…
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The Quantum Utility Map
The Narrow Advantage: Why Quantum Computing Will Transform Five Industries and Disappoint Twenty
After months of research and hundreds of papers, the picture is clear: quantum computing will deliver genuine competitive advantages for pharma, chemicals, batteries, advanced materials, and condensed-matter physics. For finance, logistics, and machine learning, the evidence is structurally weak. This capstone article synthesizes the full Quantum Utility Map series into a single strategic thesis.
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Quantum Computing by 2033: Which Industries Win, Which Wait, and Why
By 2033, fault-tolerant quantum computers with 2,000 logical qubits will create genuine competitive separation in pharma, chemicals, battery technology, and advanced materials. Finance, logistics, and machine learning face a structural barrier that no hardware improvement can fix. This strategic briefing maps the evidence and explains what to do about it.
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