Lisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a real-world case of Lisp in a cutting-edge industry, applied to quantum hardware.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Arthur Gleckler

Topic

lisp in quantum computing

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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• Interesting in this regard might also be the talk that Robert Smith of Rigetti Computing recently gave: [VIDEO] Apart from praising Common Lisp he describes how they are building an assembler-like language for quantum computing. The HN thread: [LINK]

• Lisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing [VIDEO] About the application of Lisp on quantum hardware.

• Rigetti Quantum Computing [0] is a YC startup that actually manufactures real quantum computers that are accessible through Forest. There are a couple neat videos about the tech. [1,2] You can access the service through a Python API [3]. Disclaimer: I work there. [0] [LINK] …