Quantum miscellany
Introduction to Qiskit
A gentle introduction to programming on a quantum computer using Qiskit, a python library by IBM
Palate cleanser
Long-awaited Shtetl-Optimized Barbenheimer post! [warning: spoilers]
I saw Oppenheimer three weeks ago, but I didn’t see Barbie until this past Friday. Now, my scheduled flight having been cancelled, I’m on multiple redeyes on my way to a workshop on Large Language Models at the Simons Institute in Berkeley, organized by my former adviser and quantum complexity theorist Umesh Vazirani (!). What […]
Testing GPT-4 with math plugins
A couple nights ago Ernie Davis and I put out a paper entitled Testing GPT-4 on Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins on math and science problems. Following on our DALL-E paper with Gary Marcus, this was another “adversarial collaboration” between me and Ernie. I’m on leave to work for OpenAI, and have been extremely […]