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Chris Ferrie
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Chris Ferrie's personal blog at csferrie.medium.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on quantum computing's reality check. The only comment cites it as related reading next to a Babbage-engine comparison and estimates for fault-tolerant quantum arithmetic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Related: "Quantum computing worst case scenario: we are Lovelace and Babbage" [1] For scale: Babbage's planned analytical engine had a word size of 50 digits, a clock rate of 7Hz, and a physical size of roughly a locomotive [2]. Contrast [3] where it's estimated that 600-digit superposed additions would run at 27Hz (by dedicating millions of qubits to magic state distillation of the underlying AND gates). Given curr…
Comment linking /quantum-computing-worst-case-scenario-we-are-lovelace-and-babbage-1e3005d677e6
on “Quantum computing's reality check”Submitted I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How will I interact with a quantum computer, and what can it do? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game development changed the way I teach quantum computing as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
