TechStuff Tidbits: What the Heck is a Qubit?
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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What is a quantum bit, and how is it different from a normal bit? What kinds of problems are quantum computers good at solving? And how many dumb jokes can Jonathan shove into this episode?
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade. |
| 0:07.0 | He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. |
| 0:13.7 | His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood |
| 0:20.3 | who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
| 0:22.9 | A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how will the tech are ya? |
| 0:51.2 | Today's Tech Stuff tidbits is... what's a qubit? |
| 0:55.6 | Well, he's this little orange guy who jumps up and down a pyramid like structure while |
| 1:01.6 | trying to avoid snakes. He also has a habit of cursing. |
| 1:07.0 | Wait, sorry, I'm being told by the... yeah. |
| 1:12.4 | Okay, no, sorry guys, uh, I got that totally wrong. That's that's qubert. |
| 1:17.6 | A qubit is something else entirely. |
| 1:20.9 | I know, cringe jokes. Also, originally, I thought maybe I would go a different way with that, |
| 1:27.1 | and I would talk about qubits being a unit of measurement used to build arcs in biblical times. |
| 1:35.6 | But you see that joke about what a qubit is? Well, it existed in two states simultaneously, |
| 1:43.3 | but ultimately when it came time for me to choose which joke to use, it had to collapse |
| 1:49.1 | into a single state, which is the qubert joke, and that whole bit about collapsing into a single |
| 1:56.5 | state. I can't promise it'll make more sense later, but I can promise we're gonna talk about it. |
| 2:02.5 | All right, so to understand what a qubit is, qubit, by the way, actually stands for quantum bit. |
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