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Sundays are for sipping coffee, long reads, and our newsletter, of course. Enjoy this curation of easy-to-peruse links & resources in and around quantum.

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE:

• 3 weekend links to browse: 223 years ago this month, Thomas Young questioned the nature of light and planted a seed that would later lead to the development of quantum physics. Plus, Yuval Boger’s The Superposition Guy’s podcast hosts Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller of Google Quantum AI, and NPR’s Jenna McLaughlin reports from last week’s quantum event on Capitol Hill.

• 2 resources to check out: Free quantum circuit born machine tutorial from PennyLane, plus Constantin Gonciulea & Charlee Stefanski’s book “Building Quantum Software: A Developer’s Guide“ is 50% off this weekend.

• 1 quote to ponder: Thomas Young on the infallibility of giants.

WEEKEND BYTES

• Read this article that explores the historical debate over light as a wave or a particle in remembrance of Thomas Young's double-slit experiment in 1801 that demonstrated light's wave-like interference patterns. Young's work challenged Newton's corpuscular theory of light. Despite initial resistance, his experiments and calculations advanced the field of optics and contributed to the development of quantum mechanics.

• Listen to this episode of Yuval Boger’s The Superposition Guy’s podcast featuring Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller, a product manager at Google Quantum AI, as they discuss the development of full-stack quantum computing, the significance of Google's 2019 quantum supremacy milestone, and their product focus. She also covers early customer use cases, the evaluation of quantum usefulness, their error correction roadmap, and the intersection of quantum computing and AI, emphasizing the societal responsibilities of quantum development.

• Listen to NPR’s cybersecurity correspondent Jenna McLaughlin as she reports on the first-ever quantum industry event on Capitol Hill where bipartisan discussions focused on the importance of quantum technology. The showcase highlighted the real need for continued support and legislation to maintain momentum in the quantum field.

ENTANGLED INSIGHTS

FREE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

Unsupervised generative modeling, especially using quantum circuit born machines, shows promise for achieving practical quantum advantage on complex classical data. QCBMs excel in modeling distributions across various datasets by using quantum states to generate samples efficiently. Follow along with this PennyLane tutorial to implement a gradient-based algorithm for QCBM.

QUANTUM BOOKS

We’ve featured it before, but "Building Quantum Software: A Developer's Guide" is 50% off for the holiday weekend and now has 5 chapters available to preview (through MEAP), so I think a second highlight is in order. This book for developers, familiar to quantum or not, offers a comprehensive foundation for quantum computing and covers quantum search, probability estimation, quantum states, gates, circuits, and running software on simulators and quantum hardware. This guide simplifies complex concepts with intuitive visualizations and code implementations to make it accessible for those with basic math and programming skills.

WORDS TO PONDER

UNTIL TOMORROW.

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