Manual solution of the book (Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chemistry, 9th Edition. Zumdahl University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Test Bank,Solution Manual,Solutions Manuals,Instructor Manual,Instructor Solutions Manual,Instructor Solution Manual. Nielsen and Isaac Chuang is an invaluable reference source and I encourage you to obtain a copy. Most of the subjects discussed in the rest of this manual are fully covered in this reference. Programming F#: A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems: This book by Chris Smith is an excellent introductory text.
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This is going a bit too far:Can we start with just the most interesting questions that people are really struggling with? That's what SE is for, isn't it? When I started using SO almost 10 years ago, it was a place to go when I really needed help with something.There is also another issue I have with this series. Very soon SLesslyTall will have a higher reputation than absolutely anybody here, and will have access to moderator tools, will be able to decide what questions stay open or get closed, etc. The reason people with high reputation get high power is because they have earned it by showing that they have the capacity to ask very good questions or give very good answers. In every SE I know, asking lots of excellent questions involved having creativity or having original ideas.When copying and pasting questions from N&C, it is actually Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang that made the intellectual creative effort.
They were the ones creative enough to come up with good questions. If you've ever written a textbook, you will know how excruciatingly difficult it is to come up with good, creative exercises. If you've ever taught a course, you know how hard it is to come up with good educational but do-able homework exercises.Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang were the ones that spent the time making these questions.Every question I asked here was an original idea and written by myself. If you want, I can ask Ike Chuang tomorrow if he and Mike would like to set up an account where he can get reputation for people like SLesslyTall ask all the questions from his book. But otherwise, I do not think you should get free points accredited to your username for asking questions that other people came up with.Finally, it is going to be extremely rare to hear me say this, but I don't think this particular question (Exercise 2.5) belongs here.
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I usually advocate including every question. It takes effort to ask a question, never delete it except in exceptional circumstances. I have read the meta post about 'assuming that a question is about quantum computing' and giving the 'benefit of the doubt'. But this question is just a very basic math question that belongs on the Mathematics SE (in the event that someone actually struggles to get the answer themselves, which I think is impossible so it might even be considered off topic there, for not making any effort to do one's 'own research' before asking the question).I still think more than half the points for the question should go to an account in Mike or Ike's name, since they came up with the 'interesting question'.
It doesn't take much effort, creativity, or original work to copy a question out of a book. Points for effort that goes into typing a question in LaTeX format? I don't think so. I envision that it's going to be like someone reading N&C and getting stumbled by how hard a question is, and then asking for the answer here. Why should they ever get points for that? I have a few concerns with this approach to generating content which I will outline here for your consideration: The first is largely an ethical stanceBy copying the problem statements from someone else's body of work, I believe it diminishes the value of what that author has created.
A lot of work goes into the creation of these works by your colleagues — so while the Fair Use provisions of most Copyright law allows for using small snippets of content for the purpose of education, when you set out to reproduce those exercises en masse, I believe you cross over a line into what I feel is misappropriating the original author's hard work without permission.Incidentally, one 'take down notice' and all that content will be removed unceremoniously; it will just be gone. But I don't think this community needs to dance on that edge of that quasi-legal jargon to see if the author will protect their work. We don't need to do that.
There are plenty of 'real world' problems to solve here.Which leads me to my second concern: Recognizing why this site was createdThis site is built through a collaborative effort by sharing actual detailed problems you encounter in your day to day work or studies in the form of Q&A. Others share their hard-earned experience to resolve these hurdles one by one so these issues become well-documented for those who might encounter the same problems thereafter.But this site wasn't meant to become a digital 'problem solver'. Many sites run into a problem (often referred to as a 'homework problem') where folks hand off a bit of work with the question 'can you do this for me?' I understand that the N&C examples were meant to be more of an exercise for your practice and intrigue — I wouldn't assume any bad faith — but the way these questions should be asked is in the context of working on these problems or projects yourself.
Then if you run into a very specific concern or point of confusion, you can ask how you might overcome that hurdle together. $begingroup$ I could not agree more. This answer could not be any more perfect, so I have accepted your answer. I didn't want to completely discourage the user that was posting these questions, because I do see some value in asking some of the most interesting and non-trivial questions of N&C, but your suggested approach is actually better.
The users should ask about the specific problem they have that is making it hard for them to solve the problem, rather than just copying and pasting the whole question. cot'd $endgroup$–Jun 29 '18 at 17:27. Heather asked me to write an answer based on her comments:I lean in favor of this suggestion.If the asker doesn't get reputation for the original work of Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang, then that makes things much better.The question then would be which questions are appropriate and which ones are not. The question posted, is not interesting. It is not quantum computing, but high school math.
There is a reason why extremely basic questions are not generally accepted on SO or other SE's. People shouldn't be able to reach 5000 points for answering a bunch of trivial questions.
There's some questions in N&C that are genuinely difficult. There's other ones which are trivial and do not merit points for simply typing out the solutions to essentially a high school homework question.SO and many of the SE's are a bit more advanced than that. Questions are non-trivial, and they are interesting. They are worth something. $begingroup$ And please do not use 'community wiki' as a way to allow or forgive questions which otherwise would not work. A questions should be allowed (or not) based entirely on its merits.
Community Wiki should not be used as a way to deprive or withhold reputation, and the Community Wiki feature has been all but deprecated as a tool in general. The option as been removed for an author to make their own question community wiki, and It is generally not recommended to use this tool for much at all — $endgroup$–Jun 29 '18 at 17:18. $begingroup$ These are all great points and I thank you for such a thoughtful and well-written post on this.
I would add that if anything, surely the posting of these questions would act as an advertisement for the book to new QC students entering the field. I would be surprised if CUP did not see this side of it and therefore give their permission on that basis alone. The questions by themselves really aren't that useful to a student without the book to understand their context. $endgroup$–Jun 30 '18 at 9:06.
I feel the need to make a brief set of points that seem to have been lost in the past week's melee:a) I am a (relatively) new SE user. I have not had a decade of previous experience on what is and isn't allowed on the site, for which I can only offer my humble apologies.b) In an attempt to overcome these fatal shortcomings, when I had a question about what might be allowed on the site, I openly and honestly requested for advice on how to proceed. Specifically, I questioned the means and appropriateness of listing (specifically) all the N&C questions, from which the general consensus seemed to be: 'yes, this is a good idea'. I further note that this was motivated entirely by an altruistic wish to provide future students with a resource that I had personally desired years ago, not some rep-gaining conspiracy to take over the site.
In fact, personally, I have very little to gain from spending my time writing and answering these questions.c) In response to this, I did exactly what was suggested, including additional later requests, such as the maintenance of the tag page.d) At no point in this sequence of events have I attempted to deceive anyone on either my intentions or actions. If this is not something that the community wants on the site then that absolutely is fine with me.
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