tequila VS Mezzano

Which of the Quantum circuit simulator back ends supported by tequila are accelerateable with CUDA quantum?

src/tequila/simulators: https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila/tree/master/src/tequil...

> Once you stop caring about the brain and neurons and you find out that almost every cell in the body has gap junctions and voltage-gated ion channels which for all intents and purposes implement boolean logic and act as transistors for cell-to-cell communication, biology appears less as something which has been overcome and more something towards which we must strive with our primitive technologies: for instance, we can only dream of designing rotary engines as small, powerful, and resilient as the ATP synthase protein [2].

But what of wave function(s); and quantum chemistry at the cellular level? https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila#quantumchemistry

Is emergent cognition more complex than boolean entropy, and are quantum primitives necessary to emulate apparently consistently emergent human cognition for whatever it's worth?

[Church-Turing-Deutsch, Deutsch's Constructor theory]

Is ATP the product of evolutionary algorithms like mutation and selection? Heat/Entropy/Pressure, Titration/Vibration/Oscillation, Time

From the article:

> The next step, Lechner said, “is to figure out how many, or how few, neurons we actually need to perform a given task.”

Notes regarding Representational drift* and remarkable resilience to noise in BNNs) from "The Fundamental Thermodynamic Cost of Communication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770235

It's never just one neuron.

And furthermore, FWIU, human brains are not directed graphs of literally only binary relations.

In a human brain,

https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila/blob/master/src/tequil...

Pauli matrices > Quantum information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_matrices#Quantum_informa...

From Quantum_information#Quantum_information_processing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information#Quantum_in... :

> The state of a qubit contains all of its information. This state is frequently expressed as a vector on the Bloch sphere. This state can be changed by applying linear transformations or quantum gates to them. These unitary transformations are described as rotations on the Bloch Sphere. While classical gates correspond to the familiar operations of Boolean logic, quantum gates are physical unitary operators.

> Tequila is an Extensible Quantum Information and Learning Architecture where the main goal is to simplify and accelerate implementation of new ideas for quantum algorithms. It operates on abstract data structures allowing the formulation, combination, automatic differentiation and optimization of generalized objectives. Tequila can execute the underlying quantum expectation values on state of the art simulators as well as on real quantum devices.

https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila#quantum-backends

Quantum Backends currently supported by tequilahub/tequila: Qulacs, Qibo, Qiskit, Cirq, PyQuil, QLM, myQLM)

tequila-tutorials/Quantum_Calculator.ipynb https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila-tutorials/blob/main/Qu... :

> Welcome to the Tequila Calculator Tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a quantum circuit that simulates addition using Tequila. We also compare the performance of various backends that Tequila uses.

a) have you heard of tequila? seems pretty similar

Have you made or plan to make any contributions to Mezzano (https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano) or are you mainly interested in seeing how far you can take this thing on your own?

>> except building compilers and OSes

SBCL is written in Lisp, yes? Except the runtime, which is C + asm.

I've heard people wrote some OSes in the past, like Genera. Or if you prefer recent attempt, try https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano. Never tried it, though.

No need to.

Not at all. See mezzano for a notable recent example of an OS written entirely in a dynamic language.

So..

"Why do you want to make Lisp more popular? If you were sucessful, what would be different in the world, and why is that desirable to you?"

Normally at this point I'd listen to the response, and ask more questions based on that. That would wind up with a very, very deep thread, so I'll break a cardinal rule and pre-guess at some answers.

This kind of question comes up pretty frequently. In many cases, I suspect the motivation behind the question is "Wow! Here's this cool tool I've discovered. I want to make something really useful with it. I want to do it as part of a community effort; share my excitement with others, share in their excitement, and know that what I'm making is useful because others find it desirable and are excited by it." The field could be cooking, sports, old machine tools, tiny homes, or demo scene. Its the fundemental driver for most content on HN, YouTube, Instructables, and such. It is a Good Thing.

If that is your motivator, then my suggestion is to find something that bugs you and fix it. You've already decided you're only interested in code, not other aspects. You said you preferred vim, but the emacs ecosystem has a very rich set of sharp edges that need filing off, and a rich set of tools with which to attack them.

One example: even after 50 years there's no open IDE which allows you to easily globally rename a Lisp identifier. I don't know about LispWorks or other proprietary environments, but you can't in emacs or vim do a right-click on "foo" in "(defun foo ()...)" and select a command which automatically renames it in all invocations. [Queue lots of "but you can..." replies here.] I don't think vim is up to the task of doing this internally. It would be possible in emacs; but would require a huge effort with lots of help from other people. If you emerged alive from that rabbit warren you'd join the company of Certified "How Hard Could it Be?" Mad Scientists such as Dr. "I just want to draw molecules" Meister [1] and "Wouldn't an OS in Lisp be Cool" Froggey [2].

[1] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

[2] Mezzano https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

You might want to look at Mezzano which is an operation system written in Common Lisp https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

I haven’t tried it since moving to M1/ARM, but it is cool.