Most engineers I know are not intimidated by *any* technical area except for the ones that require truly esoteric math. But this does not mean they must suffer from either false confidence or fearful anchoring on what they know.
Could never wrap my head around holography, it's a pre-demystification level for me still. Quantum computing is another one. Something about these subjects prevents the "aha" pop of getting the basic point.
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What's so hard about holography? Read my sound camera article - it's basically that, only for light instead of sound.
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Something something 3d confuses me
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Quantum computing... Imagine that you have an iPhone and you are only allowed to interact with it's screen. On it's CPU there is a "factorize integer" opcode. The OS knows nothing of it. How would you get to raw opcodes from the GUI? That's basically the problem with making a QC.
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You're not going to be able to demystify these things for me in a tweet. For me, demystification requires at least skimming a full text book and understanding a couple of beginning examples, but without diving into full homework/test level problems or projects.
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Quantum computing should really be called phase computing or interference algorithms. The quantum part matters for technical reasons (unitary, linear) and not theoretical reasons. Anything with a phase you could use, classical EM for example. But chaos, etc. That helped me.
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