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Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit (zdnet.com)
Microsoft is releasing a free preview version of its Quantum Development Kit. "The kit includes the Q# programming language and compiler and a local quantum computing simulator, and is fully integrated with Visual Studio," reports ZDNet. "There's also an Azure-based simulator that allows developers to simulate more than 40 logical qubits of computing power, plus documentation libraries, and sample programs, officials said in their December 11 announcement." From the report: Quantum computers are designed to process in parallel, thus enabling new types of applications across a variety of workloads. They are designed to harness the physics of subatomic particles to provide a different way to store data and solve problems compared to conventional computers, as my ZDNet colleague Tony Baer explains. The result is that quantum computers could solve certain high-performance-computing problems more efficiently. Microsoft officials have said applications that developers create for use with the quantum simulator ultimately will work on a quantum computer, which Microsoft is in the process of developing. Microsoft's goal is to build out a full quantum computing system, including both the quantum computing hardware and the related full software stack.
I've been using it for years.
like... how to get MS Edge to actually function?
..the Q screen of death?
He's the best president since Regan, IMHO. He's eliminating barriers that interfere with business and he's keeping the FCC on a short leash. The reason why the internet has flourished is because government stayed the FUCK OUT and business was allowed to do what they do best. Could you imagine NANCY PELOSI REGULATING THE INTERNET and having Googles and Facebooks like we do today? That would have never happened in a REGULATED, DEMOCRAT OBAMA-STYLE INTERNET. Please keep the internet FREE,
so Roy Moore never signs those yearbooks and cards? If only he hadn't, he could yet still fuck 14 yo girls and no one would prove it. The Bama way, my friends. After all, who wouldn't want their 14 yo daughters to get fucked by a lawyer!
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Now, I can finally write that killer app for my quantum transportation entanglement FTL! I've literally had this thing for ages, but the app store is empty, and before this there was no way to side load anything better than cat pictures.
Visual Studio is connected and sending telemetry these days. The last thing I want to do is devote my time to designing something bleeding-edge in it only to have Microsoft to patent the thing first.
Some guy that knows little about quantum and AI... asked the question:
"Could this lead to quantum AI/Super AI ?!"
Wow... a bit scary thought... done by a noob ! Haha... sometimes noobs usefull ! :)
They apperently filter out the details... and see the big picture ! LOL.
Can they implement the full C++17 standard? Nope.
C99 and C11 support in their C compiler? Nope.
Tooling for cppwinrt? Nope.
Are they deprecating C++/CX? Who knows, man. Who knows.
XAML design surface fully working in Visual Studio for SDK release 16299? Nope.
Most of them integrated with Python so that you can use them in Jupyter. Many of them are included in this free AMI distro.
And unlike MS the IBM, Rigetti and D-Wave tools let you connect to real quantum computing hardware.