Things I'm still figuring out

Part 7 of the Quantum Computing series. The biggest headache in quantum computing, things keep going wrong. Decoherence, T1 and T2 times, the no-cloning rule, the surface code, and why error correction is the real path forward.

Part 6 of the Quantum Computing series. A relaxed walkthrough of everything covered so far, qubits, superposition, entanglement, gates, and algorithms, in a single connected picture.

Part 5 of the Quantum Computing series. Quantum algorithms are the recipes that turn qubits, superposition, entanglement, and interference into useful work. From a one-gate random bit generator to Shor's algorithm and quantum chemistry, with classical comparisons and no math.

Part 4 of the Quantum Computing series. The buttons and knobs that turn qubits into useful work. Hadamard, X, Z, Y, phase, rotation, CNOT, SWAP, CZ, and Toffoli, with examples and a tiny circuit you can read.

Part 3 of the Quantum Computing series. The two weird quantum behaviors that make quantum computers special, and how they combine to give algorithms their advantage. Library searches, magic socks, and noise-canceling interference, with no heavy math.

Part 2 of the Quantum Computing series. How qubits are actually built, how they are kept stable, how they are measured, and what operations we can do on them. Superconducting loops, trapped ions, photons, lasers, and the Bloch sphere, with no heavy math.

The first post in the Quantum Computing series. What a quantum computer actually is, what a qubit is, what superposition and entanglement mean, and a first glimpse at quantum algorithms. No jargon without explanation, no scary equations.