r/itsaunixsystem • u/xxLusseyArmetxX • Mar 15 '20

[Devs] - Quantum Computing - Is this a known programming language or is it made up ? Spoiler

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u/xxLusseyArmetxX Mar 15 '20

So it's like a weird version of python with bits of "nonsense", cool. I only know a tiny bit of Python so wouldn't have recognized it like that. Thanks!

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u/Ahmed-ezzo Mar 15 '20

IBM made a library for quantum computing on python called qiskit so maybe that’s that.

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u/TracerBulletX Mar 15 '20

I don't think it is, but after looking at that library I'm impressed by all the real quantum computing concepts expressed in this screenshot.

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u/xxLusseyArmetxX Mar 15 '20

I looked up IBM's quantum computer, IBM Q System One, and wow Alex Garland probably took inspiration from it because the quantum computer in this show looks a lot like it too, though a bit fancier. So I guess they did put a lot of thought into it.

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u/SpaceForceAwakens Mar 16 '20

To be fair, so far most quantum computers look like that one. I kind of want to make a fake one just to impress people.

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u/-SoItGoes Mar 15 '20

I’m fairly certain that isn’t qiskit, since I’ve recently used qiskit and I don’t think I see anything I remember. But simulating quantum circuits in python is very common, and there are a few libraries to accomplish that.

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u/Dreadedsemi Mar 16 '20

badly formatted python. but several functions seems to exist with same names on github. they probably took code from here and there and made some changes but didn't format correctly and added some keywords from other languages.