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There’s a famous parable about a group of blind men encountering an elephant for the very first time. The first blind man, who had his hand on the elephant’s side, said that it was like an enormous wall.

One day, two mysterious people stop by your house and announce that they’re capable of performing extremely complex computations. You’re thinking about slamming the door in their faces but, curiosity piqued, you ask: how complex?

A few weeks ago, I finished teaching my first class at the University of Toronto, called Quantum Computing: Foundations to Frontier. It was aimed at graduate students, which comprised the majority of the participants, but there were a few outstanding undergraduates, as well as a high school student!

As my stint at Berkeley winds down over the next few weeks, I’m finally taking stock of the next chapter ahead of me: on July 1st, I’ll be packing my bags and transplanting myself to the fine city of Toronto, Canada.