Comment by incomingpain

Comment by incomingpain 7 days ago

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There's 2 big ones that I want to learn.

Quantum computer programming. I've dived a couple times into Qiskit from IBM. Also tried to get into dwave and ocean sdk but they never got back to me.

Qiskit tutorials are easy to blow through and i think even understand. But when trying to use it for my own purposes, just never get anywhere.

The other one for me with no success. Training my own specialized predicting AI models. Tensorflow, pytorch, and another.

I certainly prefer pytorch. Super simple to build models on simple stuff.

I'm trying to do something that literally nobody else has ever done. My lack of success has probably a lot more to do with that it's not perhaps actually doable.

Flipside, I might be re-approaching this now that i have the pycharm ai to help me in this progress.

>you've been there and figured out how to get past similar hurdles – please chime in! Share some helpful resources, dish out general advice, or just give a nudge of encouragement on how to take that intimidating first step.

Never be afraid to try. Always dare to fail; you only truly learn when failing. The easier you make it to fail, the quicker you learn.

guywithahat 6 days ago

My concern with quantum computing is there's already such an outrageous overabundance of quantum computing PhD's the marked will likely be saturated for decades to come. It would be a ton of fun to learn, but I can't justify the time because there's no career progression

  • almostgotcaught 5 days ago

    Lol where are people getting such ideas. First of all there are probably like 10 QC people graduating a year in the whole world (okay maybe 20). Second of all y'all people have no idea how far off usable QC is. It's like 50 years at best.

  • msgodel 5 days ago

    It's not that hard to learn, you can do it in a few evenings. Grab something like Nielsen and mess around on qirk.

    Now whether it's worth learning? Eh, maybe it's good to exercise some math skills that have been atrophying.

pajamasam 6 days ago

Totally fair re: quantum computer programming. It's still an open question what exactly it can be useful for.

Are you trying it for anything in particular?

(I'm only getting started in it now in my Master's programme)

  • incomingpain 5 days ago

    >Are you trying it for anything in particular?

    cracking crypto. forcing netadmins and sysadmins to update crypto to quantum resistant crypto. Might as well make it a real threat :)

    • msgodel 5 days ago

      I'll bet a lot of money PQC becomes commonplace before quantum breaks anything meaningful. (although I'm one of the people paid to work on PQC so maybe I'm biased.)