Ep 100: David Deutsch
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Is There a Universal Quantum Computer?
A lovelace asks to what extent fineman understood the universality of quantum computation. Did he have a conception of it at all around the time when you were writing this paper? Or was it only in light of you telling him about the proof that he then sort of a got what you were going on about? I don't know, but i know that in his published work, there is no real hint of the thing that is now called a universal computer. Butbut, yt, as you said, who cares this?
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