"In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story. The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet."

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This is about Quantum Odyssey, my love letter to everything Quantum Computing and the fundamental logic blocks everything in our universe seems to run on. I want to update you all on the fact that the latest patch brings the game into an almost complete status. All that's missing is translations. Thank you Reddit community for receiving the game so well, without you I wouldn't have the funds needed to complete my life's work.

If you are remotely interested in deep diving how differently quantum computers work compared to our transistor-based and also the algebra behind in a fully interactive way that teach computer science from scratch, oh boy this is for you. I am the Dev behind Quantum Odyssey (AMA! I love taking qs) - worked on it for about 9 years (3+ during PhD, the visual method I developed ended up being my thesis, it is a complete Hilbert space visualizer), the goal was to make a super immersive space for anyone to learn quantum computing through zachlike (open-ended) logic puzzles and compete on leaderboards and lots of community made content on finding the most optimal quantum algorithms. The game has a unique set of visuals capable to represent any sort of quantum dynamics for any number of qubits and this is pretty much what makes it now possible for anybody 15yo+ to actually learn quantum logic without having to worry at all about the mathematics behind.

This is a game super different than what you'd normally expect in a programming/ logic puzzle game, so try it with an open mind.

Stuff you'll play with

• Boolean Logic – bits, operators (NAND, OR, XOR, AND…), and classical arithmetic (adders). Learn how these can combine to build anything classical. You will learn to port these to a quantum computer.
• Quantum Logic – qubits, the math behind them (linear algebra, SU(2), complex numbers), all Turing-complete gates (beyond Clifford set), and make tensors to evolve systems. Freely combine or create your own gates to build anything you can imagine using polar or complex numbers.
• Quantum Phenomena – storing and retrieving information in the X, Y, Z bases; superposition (pure and mixed states), interference, entanglement, the no-cloning rule, reversibility, and how the measurement basis changes what you see.
• Core Quantum Tricks – phase kickback, amplitude amplification, storing information in phase and retrieving it through interference, build custom gates and tensors, and define any entanglement scenario. (Control logic is handled separately from other gates.)
• Famous Quantum Algorithms – explore Deutsch–Jozsa, Grover’s search, quantum Fourier transforms, Bernstein–Vazirani, and more.

Nice to watch:

Khan academy style tutorials in qm/qc: https://www.youtube.com/@MackAttackx

Physics teacher stream with 400hs in https://www.twitch.tv/beardhero

Clean-water pumping started about 15 minutes late in one laboratory attack, even though the facility’s communications remained encrypted. Another attack left a simulated valve open for more than nine minutes longer than intended. Neither required access to the water plant’s internal systems or the ability to read its messages.

The University of British Columbia team calls its framework ICS-Sniper. The research is slated to appear at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in 2027. It examines a weakness in industrial systems that exchange monitoring and control messages with cloud services over the internet.

An attacker must first control a router carrying those communications, a significant prerequisite. From that position, the framework analyzes message timing, sizes and direction, then selectively blocks traffic. The tests demonstrate a threat to operational continuity without showing an attack on a working public utility.

I’m honestly starting to think that alot of the aggressive anti-AI attitude in tech has less to do with actual criticism and more with fragile egos.

Some people spent years learning how to code, and now suddenly AI allows almost anyone to build things that previously required years of experience.
And apparently thats a huge problem for some people.

I get the feeling that some developers aren’t actually mad about AI. They’re mad because their skills aren’t as exclusive anymore. Being “the computer guy” doesn’t make you special like it used to.
So instead of adapting, they start gatekeeping and calling everything “AI slop”, often without even looking at the actual project.

How is that rational?

If the code sucks, explain why. If its insecure, show me the vulnerabilities. But dismissing something purely because AI was involved is just lazy.

The whole point of technology is to make things easier and more accessible. Thats literally what we’ve been doing for decades.

And now suddenly thats a bad thing?

I think this mindset is genuinely harmful. It discourages people from building stuff, sharing ideas and experimenting.

We’re literally slowing down innovation just to protect some peoples sense of superiority.

Your programming skills aren’t worthless because AI exists.

But if your ego depends on other people not being able to do what you do, maybe the problem isn’t AI.

Maybe it’s you.