Quantum Chess

Chess with a #Quantum twist. The #quantumchess game played by #PaulRudd & #StephenHawking in #AnyoneCanQuantum

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11/ So, what are the principles of Quantum Mechanics?

We’ll talk about that next time. ✨

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1/ #Quantum #Game #Design Part 6

The popular narrative around quantum physics is that it’s spooky, weird, and hard. The narrative isn’t very inviting.

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10/ The physicists called their new maths Quantum Mechanics.

(Why? The word “atom” was already taken, so they needed another word meaning “a discrete and indivisible thingy.” 😅)

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So that’s where it starts: creatively misusing specialized equipment for joy and entertainment.

You can try it out on a simulator here: https://t.co/kX74HaYg8h

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The Ongoing History of Computer #gaming

Do you know what the first computer game was? A game that had people waiting in line for hours to play!?

If you guessed Pong, you’re close, but not close enough. The first game was far more primitive: William Higinbotham’s Tennis for Two.

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He designed the game in about two hours. After creating a couple of custom, aluminum knobs to control the angle of the racket, and a button to hit the ball, Higinbotham had a game.

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16/ Next time, let’s talk about what quantum mechanics is (easy there, tiger, it’s basically accounting) and how it relates to computation.

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14/ Voila! You can predict what the photo would look like in sepia without the mess.

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15/ Now, start to imagine how computer games work. They use sophisticated models of reality—real or fictional—to predict what happens as players interact.

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13/ The sepia filter is a set of rules that maps colors to yellows. Your phone applies these rules to each pixel in the saved picture data.

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1/ Back to our #quantumgame #design class. Last time, we talked about how we can capture information about the world and represent that data somewhere else.