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Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits

John Gribbin · 2015 · 304 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
Such a good and engaging writing, but so underwhelming. I expected to read about how quantum computers work, since it’s a very complex and hard-to-explain concept. But this book doesn’t really go anywhere near real explanations. It’s mostly biographies of people and historic facts surrounding the evolution of computing. You will not learn anything about quantum computation from it.

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.