Quantum mischief¶
Step carefully into the Ankh Morpork equivalent of a quantum lab, where qubits wiggle like tipsy apprentices and logic politely excuses itself for a tea break. Quantum machine learning is not so much a discipline as a carnival of delightful chaos, promising speed, sophistication, and occasional existential panic in the data centre. Classical algorithms are orderly merchants; quantum algorithms are street performers juggling flaming coins, arguing over rules, and occasionally setting fire to the ledger.
Chaotic performers and glowing qubits and machinery:
- Qubits behaving badly
- Quantum algorithms and classical envy
- Classical-quantum alliances (uneasy truces)
- When qubits gossip (security nightmares)
- Quantum supremacy and other tall tales
- Temperamental machinery and cosmic rays
- When quantum actually matters (rarely)
- Surviving quantum ML in production
- What comes next (probably chaos)
- A qubit’s guide to not exploding (a resource collection)
Disclaimer¶
These pages do not summon doom, predict conspiracies, or tell your servers what to do, although Vetinari could if he wished. Instead, they are the subtle, sharply honed insights of The Patrician himself, who has spent decades ensuring Ankh-Morpork runs just well enough that everyone feels safe, until they notice the knife-edge upon which he walks. Read, enjoy, and remember, the danger is mostly theoretical. Mostly.