Exploring quantum computing with Rigetti & pyQuil
There are so many interesting things to learn and experiment, but just no time. To solve this problem we came up with a “20% week” in my team. The idea is that we use roughly every 5th week to explore a new technology based on our own interests.
I decided to start a learning diary type of blog series about these explorations. This time I'm diving into practical quantum computing.
Modern programming languages were not developed over night and I guess the quantum case will be no different.
Probably around 3 years ago I read about interesting company called Rigetti and their cloud computing platform, where one could write quantum computing instructions in python and run those on a simulated quantum computer. So not on a real quantum one, but on a simulated one using a bunch of classical computers. I thought the idea was still cool. We shouldn’t wait quantum computers to become mainstream before developing quantum programming languages, algorithms and community around quantum computing. Modern programming languages were not developed over night and I guess the quantum case will be no different.
So I applied to the ongoing Beta at Rigetti.com. Some months later I got a mail that I was picked and got some free credits…
