The human genome is made up of about 3 billion base pairs — the tiny little characters which make up the sentences in the instruction manual that is our genetic code. The mechanism which converts these instructions from an “idea” to an “action” is governed by the backbone of high…

By reading the Three Little Pigs and walking through a city — The human genome contains over three billion base pairs. Just to put that into context, if you examined one base pair each second, it would take over 94 years for you to examine them the entire thing. So it should come as no surprise that somewhat masochistically and in large…

It’s no secret that Canada, like many former European colonies, has a history rife with cultural genocide. Particularly with regards to Indigenous Peoples, our modern day circumstances are riddled with the consequences of assimilation, residential schools, forced relocation and biological warfare. This last point may seem a little confusing at…

If you were to name one of the supposed superiorities of quantum computing over classical computing, what might immediately come to mind is the somewhat ambiguous phrase that quantum computers can do things much faster than regular computers. While this is definitely true, the same phrase could be applied to…

Simon’s Algorithm was the first demonstration of a quantum computer being able to solve a problem exponentially faster than a classical computer. It aims to solve the following problem. Let’s say you have a black box function (an unknown function which you can’t “see” into) which looks like This…

One advantage a quantum computer is supposed to have over classical computers is superior searching speeds. For instance, let’s say you had a library full of books and on one page of one such book, there is a big red X. After a while, you realize that you want to…

So, a couple weeks ago, I got pretty interested in this whole idea of “quantum computing” — a concept which is often described as having the potential to enable certain computing tasks that would be totally infeasible to impossible on a standard computer. For instance, factoring huge numbers for bank…

The Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm was first proposed by David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa in 1992. It was the first algorithm to demonstrate that a quantum computer could outperform classical computers, perhaps bringing us one step closer to quantum supremacy — the idea that a quantum computer can perform a task that…

Plant based meat. What may instantly come to mind at these words are things like blocks of tofu and tempeh, canned chickpeas and dried green lentils — the staples of the many vegan kitchens that just don’t seem to capture everything that meat actually is. Because, well, plant based meat…