Notes

Technical notes rendered from Jupyter notebooks — code executes, plots render.

SEng 457 Portfolio Project

quantum

course work

pennylane

Some personal reflections on the SEng 457 course

Research Notes

quantum

data-mining

machine-learning

Running notes on quantum computing, algorithms, data mining, and machine learning.

Variational Quantum Circuits

quantum-ml

vqa

pennylane

An introduction to parameterized quantum circuits, the parameter-shift rule, and barren plateaus — with working code examples.

Gradient Descent on Loss Landscapes

optimization

ml-theory

Visualizing how optimizer trajectories behave on non-convex loss surfaces — saddle points, local minima, and escape dynamics.