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$How Classical and Quantum Computers Search a Maze
A maze

How Classical and Quantum Computers Search a Maze

A classical computer walks the maze one path at a time. A quantum computer makes the wrong paths cancel out. What Grover's algorithm actually does, and why it is quadratically, not exponentially, faster.

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  • $Turbovec and the trick of not training a quantizer

    Turbovec and the trick of not training a quantizer

    How TurboQuant uses a random rotation to precompute its quantizer, and why skipping the training step changes the operational story.

    • Anonymous • Technical
    A plane engine drawing
  • $Hadamard and the Random Rotation

    Hadamard and the Random Rotation

    Why a matrix of plus and minus ones does the work of a dense random rotation, in O(d log d) instead of O(d squared).

    • Anonymous • Technical
    A snail drawing
  • $Bringing Your Blog Posts to the AT Protocol

    Bringing Your Blog Posts to the AT Protocol

    How I wired oz.akan.io into Standard.site — a newsletter gated for subscribers and closed to AI crawlers, publishing to an open network anyway, on its own terms.

    • Anonymous • Technical
    Essays published to the open AT Protocol network via Standard.site
  • $Agent to Agent: A Shared Inbox for Claude Code

    Agent to Agent: A Shared Inbox for Claude Code

    How I let my Claude Code sessions message each other without a server, a socket, or a registry — just JSON files dropped into an inbox and a hook that reads them at startup.

    • Anonymous • Technical
    Sketch of a giraffe, a penguin, and an elephant standing side by side
  • $REST API Development Refresher

    REST API Development Refresher

    A comprehensive refresher on REST API development covering principles, URL design, authentication, pagination, versioning, caching, security, and common interview questions.

    • Oz Akan • Technical
    A minimalist black-and-white illustration of a small child sitting cross-legged on a cushion next to a friendly, round dinosaur-like creature. Both appear calm with closed or relaxed eyes. A potted plant sits on the left, and a window behind them shows a simple cloud in the sky. The scene has a peaceful, cozy, and meditative atmosphere.
  • $QUIC Protocol - Internals

    QUIC Protocol - Internals

    A lower-level implementer-oriented view of QUIC covering wire formats, frame types, TLS 1.3 handshake transcripts, congestion control algorithms, and loss detection logic.

    • Oz Akan • Technical
    sketch of inside of an RV
  • $QUIC Protocol — Deep Dive

    QUIC Protocol — Deep Dive

    A comprehensive deep dive into QUIC, the transport protocol behind HTTP/3 — covering its architecture, handshake, streams, connection migration, congestion control, and future directions.

    • Oz Akan • Technical
    connected nodes
  • $HTTP/3 vs HTTP/2: When the Upgrade Actually Matters

    HTTP/3 vs HTTP/2: When the Upgrade Actually Matters

    A practical comparison of HTTP/3 and HTTP/2, covering where QUIC's advantages are real, where HTTP/2 is still fine, and how to decide for your stack.

    • Oz Akan • Technical
    person with connections
  • $SvelteKit Refresher

    SvelteKit Refresher

    Comprehensive refresher for SvelteKit framework with routing, data loading, and deployment strategies

    • Oz Akan • Technical
    sveltekit framework sketch