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I was watching this entertaining video by David Bacon (as in "Bacon-Shor code", Cirq, ...) : video of talk where he mentions the package he wrote:

(qsel), that describes simulating quantum circuits using two commands : "entanglement" and "superposition".

This seems bizarre. There's no documentation on how to start with a circuit and end up in a sequence of such commands. Is anyone familiar with the package or the underlying idea?

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qsel is an esoteric programming language similar to Ook! or whitespace.

All it's doing is requiring you to decompose the circuit into the gateset [CS, H] and then representing the circuit with a ridiculous format. This is possible because [CS, H] is universal and because anything and everything can be efficiently encoded into a binary system that uses two symbols; that's fundamental to how computers work in the first place.

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  • $\begingroup$ I see...so it's more of a joke than anything deep or useful. (btw you're mentioned in a few slides of the talk as you probably know) $\endgroup$
    – unknown
    Commented Jun 14, 2021 at 22:11

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