My Journey at the UnitaryHack Hackathon: A Quantum Computing Adventure

This June I emerged as one of the top participants with 9 bounties collected (alongside another exceptional contributor) in the #UnitaryHack Hackathon, hosted by the Unitary Fund.

For those unfamiliar, the UnitaryHack Hackathon is an event that gathers quantum computing enthusiasts from across the globe to work together and address exciting challenges in the field. It was an journey where I had the opportunity to explore, learn, and contribute to the burgeoning open-source ecosystem of quantum computing.

Here is the list of bounties that I tackled:

Each of these projects allowed me to dive deeper into quantum computing, tackle real-world problems, and collaborate with an incredible community of passionate learners and experienced professionals. This experience reaffirmed my belief in the power of open-source collaborations and their transformative role in shaping the future of technology.

2024

DQPU, the decentralized quantum simulator

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During my Quantum Computing journey, I often needed to simulate some quantum circuits; sometimes they are small, but some other times they are bigger enough ...

The Time I Built a Probabilistic Computer

6 minute read

In early 2023, I embarked on a journey to explore the field of probabilistic computing. This endeavor culminated in the construction of a hardware prototype,...

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2023

Expanding the Commodore 64 Quantum Emulator

1 minute read

In a recent article I wrote, “Quantum Computing on a Commodore 64 in 200 Lines of BASIC”, published both on Medium and Hackaday.com, shows a two-qubit quantu...

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2020

OCaml and Quantum Computing

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Qiskit is a python SDK developed by IBM and allows everyone to create quantum circuits, simulate them locally and also run the quantum circuit on a real quan...

Yallo, a new Tezos language

2 minute read

As someone noticed from the previous post, last weeks I started to write a new programming language for Tezos smart contracts. This project was initially int...

King of Tezos: a smart-ponzi on Tezos

2 minute read

While writing a new programming language, it is often useful to write some real use-cases to test the syntax, the language expressiveness and the code cleann...

Favorite dev quote

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Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing

New blog

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This is my new blog, based on jekyll. I’ll soon import old posts from my old blog.

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2016

Contractvm: decentralized applications on Bitcoin

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Contractvm is a general-purpose decentralized framework based on blockchain. The framework allows to implement arbitrary decentralized applications in an eas...

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2015

Dices provably fair - Nonce overflow vulnerability

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Most of bitcoin dice software use a system to prove the fair play of the server for each bet. Most of them implement this mechanism using two seed (server se...

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2014

Apache2: redirect different domains to subfolder

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In the aim to merge two of my server on digitalocean, today I tried to write a mod_rewrite rule to redirect a secondary domain to a subfolder. After one hour...

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2013

MineML: F# miner

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MineML is a multithread CPU based bitcoin miner written in F#. At the moment it’s a slow implementation, but the class structure offers the possibility to im...

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