A tree was sighted during a pause in the rain.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Day: September 25, 2019
Caveat: Evidence of Our Life in the Future
I have been reading some, online, these days, about quantum computers. I don’t understand them at all, but I was made curious by the recent news about Google’s new, supposed “quantum supremacy.”
This led me down a garden path of blogs and articles, and one thing that I ran across was this picture, from a 2017 article about an IBM quantum computer.
What happened is I became sidetracked by the aesthetics of the picture, which seemed more within my grasp than the nature of the machine.
The picture looks like illustration from the cover of a science fiction magazine. It does not seem to, in any way, resemble what we think of as a “computer” as they currently exist. It is mysterious and beautiful and abstractly futuristic.
Caveat: Poem #1151 “Inertia as a kind of superpower”
With my inertia, which is a superpower, I can stop moving
– some a pseudo-haiku