I really like the language-learning inspiration here — music theory really is its own language, and repetition is what turns knowledge into instinct. Curious how you decided on the difficulty curve for the challenges. That’s always a tough balance to strike.

No clear methodology, I just tried for every lesson to bring the topic to its bare minimum for the easy difficulty, then add one layer for normal and one more for hard when possible, if not just adding more possible answers which is not ideal but some topics really are too specific to make variants.

As for the "progressive" difficulty mode, it just goes over the 3 levels so it's more of difficulty plateaus than a curve per say

“13,000× faster” sounds huge, but I wonder what it’s being compared to. Quantum speedups are always tricky to measure

The article states: “...13,000 times faster on Willow than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers...”

I agree it's not very precise without knowing which of the world's fastest supercomputers they're talking about, but there was no need to leave out this tidbit.

The paper talks only about the Frontier supercomputer which is #2 on Top500. But I think it was an analysis rather than them actually running it.

I was being sarcastic because 13,000 times faster is 4 orders of magnitude faster so it doesn't matter to which supercomputer it is compared.

I don’t understand how these papers get accepted

The field is nascent. The bar is not static.

Same! loved the design and minimalism of the product.

Wikipedia is my primary knowledge destination!

It's a primary knowledge source for me, but occasionally a destination as well!