“Since my professional goal is for someone to build a quantum computer, I think my resignation is the best course of action for everyone,”
The way I interpret this is that Quantum computing is just some pipe dream that Google isn’t taking seriously. This man intends to build a real device and either he doesn’t have faith Google will allow him to make one or has any intentions of making one.
+1 for the Google Graveyard
I once worked as a developer for a massive trillion dollar tech company, but the company was terribly dysfunctional and never did any real work, so when I quit I joked about how I was quitting to get into software development. Sounds like the same situation here.
Not sure why the quote is problematic. Is modeling complex systems not a good application of quantum compute? Or is the view that climate modeling is an already solved problem?
It's either magical thinking or pure marketing department fiction, I cannot tell which.
I'm stealing that line.
"I've been a data engineer for x years prior to this. I want to go back into data engineering."
My title at that job? Lead Data Engineer, of course.
Rather, there were serious differences of opinion regarding the path to get there.
"A quantum computer works with particles that can be in superposition. Rather than representing bits — such particles would represent qubits, which can take on the value 0, or 1, or both simultaneously" (https://plus.maths.org/content/how-does-quantum-commuting-wo...)
"The principle of quantum superposition states that if a physical system may be in one of many configurations—arrangements of particles or fields—then the most general state is a combination of all of these possibilities, where the amount in each configuration is specified by a complex number." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition)
On a more serious note, I agree with your interpretation.