Staying Updated on Quantum Computing Advances
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled its new topological quantum chip.
Great news!
A couple of weeks ago, Huang from Nvidia and Zuckerberg from Meta shared their expectations for quantum computing applications in solving practical problems and everybody was talking about it!
A few weeks before that, Google made waves with its Willow quantum supremacy experiment.
Wow!
And so on and so forth.
You get the point.
Now, if you add all the news from nearby fields, such as AI, there’s more than enough material to spend our whole day reading stuff here on LinkedIn or searching the web.
The question, then, is relevant:
How can we keep up to date and stay well-informed with so much information?
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you can't!
You can't fully understand how Willow works and proves quantum supremacy while also grasping the physics behind Microsoft’s new topological chip at the same time.
If by chance you’re an expert in both areas, you’ll certainly know about both.
But I’m sure that in a couple of weeks, there will be a new breakthrough in another area of quantum computing that you won’t be able to fully understand either.
We just have to accept it!
So, what can we do?
Here’s what I do:
I accept that I can’t know everything in the field and, this is important, I put that into practice.
For example, if someone asks me about a topic I don’t know enough about, or if I find myself in a conversation (offline or online) about something unfamiliar, I simply shut up or say that I don’t know.
There’s nothing worse than pretending to know about something when you barely know anything about it.
Here’s how I stay informed: I follow a few reliable people here on LinkedIn and read carefully what they share (of course, when appropriate).
That's it. I read them, and then I move on to my own things.
Another excellent way to stay informed is to participate in events such as the Quantum Innovation Summit in Dubai.
To sum up, this is what I do: I read reliable sources, attend quantum computing events (mostly online) and accept that I can't know everything.
Honestly, I could write a long list of topics concerning quantum computing that I know little about.
But the same goes for you!
Want to dive deeper? My eBook is a great place to start → https://www.ozatp.com/qaf
