"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Rob Pike is a Google researcher, and has written a bunch of stuff in the past that I’ve enjoyed reading. He’s also a telescope maker, which scores big points with me. I recently discovered that he also write an introduction to quantum computing that I had not previously read. This is an area of computer research that I quite franly know othing about, so I’m bookmarking it for my later consmption.
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