When you use your favorite search engine to search for information on quantum computing, the first term that will most likely jump at you is the qubit. In this post, I will try to explain what this is and how it is related to the usual framework of quantum mechanics. Please be aware that this … Continue reading Qubits and Hilbert spaces
In our discussion of the IP protocol, the reader might have noticed that there are many desirable features that the IP protocol does not have. Suppose for instance that we are building an application that needs to transmit data in a stream oriented way - this could be a video, an MP3 file or a … Continue reading Networking basics – the TCP protocol
When I started this blog, my intention was to document my own attempts to learn and understand some of the topics at the intersection of computer science, physics and mathematics that have the potential to change the world in which we work and live. After spending some time with one of these topics - machine … Continue reading Quantum computing
In the last post in this series, we have covered the basics of the IP protocol - the layout of a network message and the process of fragmentation. However, there is one point which we have not yet discussed. Assume that an application or operating system has actually assembled a message and applied fragmentation so … Continue reading Networking basics – IP routing and the ARP protocol
