Andy Matuschak

"Quantum mechanics distilled" is live!

We've now published "Quantum mechanics distilled," which explains the foundational principles of quantum mechanics in detail. Than...

Preview the final essay of Quantum Country, "Quantum mechanics distilled"

Hello, all! This evening we're sharing early access to the final essay on Quantum Country, which also includes the most significant expansion we've made to the mnemonic medium itself.

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Comments on new progress mechanics?

You may have noticed some significant changes in the notifications, cards, and progress displays in the last few weeks. We've been testing and iterating on a new set of designs with new users for m...

Tangential: working notes on direct air carbon capture

This isn't directly related to Quantum Country.  It's a small private side project Michael carried out, which may perhaps be of interest to some of you. It's his working notes on the cost of d...

Public release: "How quantum teleportation works"

Hi Everyone,

We've just made the quantum teleportation essay public. In case you didn't see the announcement of the early release version, this is a new mnemonic essay which explains in detai...

Public release: How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

Just to let you know, we did the public release of our new essay on tools for thought!  It's available at: https://numinous.pro...

[Back online] Early access essay: How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

[Hello, all! Earlier today, we had to take this essay down because it'd been shared, but now it should be accessible using your Patreon credentials. Please let us know if you have any trouble!]

Early access essay: How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

Update: Unfortunately, we've had to temporarily take this down because it seems the link was shared. We'll put it back in the next day or so behind a Patreon login.

This is a...

Early access mnemonic essay: "How quantum teleportation works"

In this essay we explain in detail how quantum teleportation works. Teleportation is fun (and surprising!), and also a fundamental primitive in many ideas about quantum computing and quantum inform...

Update on teleportation

Just a quick update: the teleportation essay, "How quantum teleportation works",  is coming along nicely, and should be available in alpha in early June. 

We're also working on a br...

We've published "How the quantum search algorithm works"

We've just published the second "mnemonic essay" in our series on quantum computation. It's an introduction to the world of quantum algorithms through the lens of the search algorithm in particular...

Early access mnemonic essay: "How the quantum search algorithm works"

This is a followup to "Quantum Computing for the Very Curious". Using just the ideas from that essay, we explain in detail how the quantum search algorithm works. This algorithm does something rema...