The 20-Million-Year Coffee Break: What Quantum Learning Tells Us About Knowledge Itself

Send us Fan Mail Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode. There's a moment in the quantum computing story that should make us all stop and stare at our coffee cups. A classical computer would need 20 million years to accomplish what a quantum system did in 15 minutes. Not twenty years. Not twenty thousand. Twenty million. Let me sit with that number for a moment, because we've become numb to exponential advances. We nod along when someone says "exponentially faster" as if it'...