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Today’s reading is End-User Agreement by Morgan Long.

At the time the Quantum Shorts anthology was published, Morgan Long was a 19-year-old sophomore at Wesleyan University. When not taking classes on math and physics, he was playing games with friends, reading science fiction, or watching YouTube videos.

The quantum concepts in End-User Agreement are the act of observation, computing, non-locality and superposition.

You think End User License Agreements are bad today? Just wait until someone delivers a quantum computer to your lab.

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Today’s reading is The Scent of Strangeness by J M Kinnear.

J M Kinnear does not write for a living, but does enjoy checking out the whiteboard doodles at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Ontario.

The quantum concept in The Scent of Strangeness is Maths.

When you have so many synesthetic symptoms that they interfere with your work, it’s time to change jobs.

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Today’s reading is The Fraction She Didn’t Know She Was by Jenni Juvonen.

Jenni Juvonen is a long-time enthusiast of science and literature, and has published short stories in several genres and languages. She is fascinated by possibilities and probabilities, and how they seem to collapse into certainties in our lives.

The quantum concepts in The Fraction She Didn’t Know She Was are the multiverse and probability.

In this story, with regard to the multiverse, what are the other versions of ourselves doing in any particular situation?

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