DISCLAIMER: This post is still in a draft!
Quantum computing has captured broad attention and fascination over the past few years, but with that interest has come a large number of well-intentioned misunderstandings. In this post, I'll lay out a few of these falsehoods in the tradition of other wonderful falsehood lists, and in the hopes of spurring more exploration into this new and fascinating way of solving hard problems.
As a brief housekeeping note, these falsehoods are ordered by theme and topic, not in order of complexity, so don't worry if some of these points seem a bit intimidating. If you're looking to learn more about quantum computing in the first place, check out Learn Quantum Computing with Python and Q# (Manning Publications, October 2020) by Sarah Kaiser and myself.
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