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How To Be Right for Twenty Years
The man who saw the wolf
Jun 11 • Amit Hagar
The Currency Drift
How the notion of quantum advantage drifted from complexity classes to Joules and dollars, and finally to Linkedin impressions
Jun 4 • Amit Hagar
The Month the Government Put a Price on the Problem the Industry Decided to Stop Mentioning
Unbelievable, but true
Jun 1 • Amit Hagar

May 2026

Willow Remembers What You Did Last Summer
Let's talk about noise
May 27 • Amit Hagar
Mind the gaps
The NISQ Trap, or, How to Waste 8 Years on Press Releases. Post 5
May 18 • Amit Hagar
How not to teach new hardware an old trick
The NISQ Trap, or, How to Waste 8 Years on Press Releases. Post 4
May 14 • Amit Hagar
Quantum and classical meet on a barren plateau
The NISQ Trap, or, How to Waste 8 Years on Press Releases. Post 3
May 11 • Amit Hagar
A Hamiltonian that was solved with a pencil in 1931
The NISQ Trap, or, How to Waste 8 Years on Press Releases - Part 2
May 7 • Amit Hagar
10,000 years that became 15 hours and then 86 seconds
The NISQ Trap, or, How to Waste 8 Years on Press Releases - Part 1
May 4 • Amit Hagar
A Rude Lab or a Polite Simulation?
The walking cat trilogy. Post 3
May 1 • Amit Hagar

April 2026

Better Look Under the Hood. You Might Find a Walking Cat
The walking cat trilogy. Post 2
Apr 29 • Amit Hagar
IonQ’s Cat Walks, Google’s Willow Bends, and Cryptography is Fine, Thank You
The walking cat trilogy. Post 1
Apr 27 • Amit Hagar
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