Dear friends,
We would like to start with our deepest condolences to all of those who have lost loved ones and friends during this pandemic.
This year has been so difficult for everyone on many levels, including; personal and professional. Yet, despite all the challenges, COVID-19 has created the opportunity for virtual technical knowledge sharing on an unprecedented scale:
Advanced research talks that were once only accessible to small, in-person, closed circles, has now largely moved online and become more accessible. This created a massive opportunity for people around the world to learn and be inspired by research without necessarily being collaborators of the authors!
There has been a mass increase in online introductory courses to quantum computation (QC). Indeed, the motivation for us to start our quantum formalism course was that it came to our attention, initially via social media, that most of these popular QC courses de-emphasise and skim through the mathematics. We found that a lot of these courses, although well-intentioned, give a far greater emphasis to the 'mysteries of quantum mechanics', whilst focusing on quantum programming aspects that result in trivial projects.
Do we want talented people stuck programming toy algorithms? Or do we want them to have the mathematical knowledge so that they are capable of using mathematical novelty to design and implement next-gen quantum algorithms?
In our view, if we want the raw talent around the world to one day to become some of the leading contributors to new ground-breaking algorithms and/or new theories, then there is no way around diving deeper into the mathematics. As such, we created the foundation module of quantum formalism to give the aspiring QC innovators exposure to the relevant baseline mathematics wherein they can build the confidence to dive deeper into the mathematics by themselves.
It has been an honour for our team to provide this free learning opportunity to so many professionals across the world and accross multiple industries. It is heartening to see high-calibre individuals with limited formal exposure to mathematics who are determined to break into the field of quantum computation.
We are looking forward to delivering more advanced courses to the community sometime next year, and potentially starting new collaborative deep-tech projects!
We wish you all a very safe and healthy festive season. We'll see you in 2021 and hopefully with some exciting news to share about our activities in homomorphic encryption and quantum computation! :)
Zaiku Group