A quick word on quantum computer energy programming
To my great surprise, quantum computer programming is now available to the developer community. I have been following D-Wave Systems since they first announced the D-Wave One, and was slightly...
View ArticleD-Wave Developer Portal
I got my access to the D-Wave developer portal beta yesterday—only to be thwarted by a lack of an OS X version of their python pack. Luckily, I have access to a Windows PC during the week, so it’s not...
View ArticleD-Wave Python Pack 1.4.0-alpha1 Trial 1
Today I’ve been benched by a double-whammy sinus cold plus migraine, so there’s really not much I can do. Yesterday, however, I did get to try out the D-Wave Python Pack (Win32/Python2.7...
View ArticleD-Wave Python Pack 1.4.0-alpha1 Trial 2
I decided to take a break from this long weekend’s coding bender to get back to the D-Wave developer tutorials. Taking a break from one coding project by working on another may seem counter-intuitive...
View ArticleHacking D-Wave One in Common Lisp
Mostly for my own amusement, I’ve tried a variety of approaches to hacking D-Wave’s python pack in Common Lisp, from existing Python/Lisp bridges to Python-in-Lisp implementations to decompiling the...
View ArticleThe Quipper Quantum Programming Language
I finally got a chance today to play with Peter Selinger’s new quantum programming language, Quipper. Since it was built as an embedded, scalable functional programming language on Haskell, it was...
View ArticleHacking D-Wave One in Common Lisp: Introducing SILVER-SWORD
I’m pleased to announce that BURGLED-BATTERIES has not failed me (despite being far from finished), and I have been making steady progress with my Common Lisp interface to D-Wave’s Python Pack and...
View ArticleQuantum Computing and Lisp
Quantum Computing is a fascinating field, but currently a contentious one. The only examples we have of real-world, hardware quantum computers are the line of adiabatic quantum computers from D-Wave...
View ArticleAnnouncing Open-Blackfire and Open-Quicksilver
With the death of my start-up, I’ll be switching my focus back to open-source software and open-science, starting with developing new, open-source versions of the Blackfire framework and Quicksilver...
View ArticleProject Goals for Open-Blackfire
There’s no denying, I went a little bit over the top with the closed-source, proprietary version of the Blackfire Framework under my now-defunct start-up, Black Brane Systems. For the new, open-source...
View Article