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lm  ·  3090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Book Thread Inside

I'm slowly reading Scott Aaronson's 'Quantumn Computing Since Democritus'. It's good armchair computer science--not an easy read, but not something so complicated you need to take notes just to follow along.

An excerpt: "The key point is that, while this is a very large buttload of variables and relations, it's still only a polynomial buttload."