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+# After recovery period list
+
+Hello me, this is a list for you to get back on track with the QD-QAS you were working on...
+
+## Things I've done
+
+I have made baselines for two types of optimization free QAS, namely TF-QAS and GA-QAS.
+These aren't necessarily fully confirmed to be functional yet,
+but seem to be doing mostly the correct things. Although the TF-QAS doesn't give me the same
+results as the version for the paper.
+This might still need to be fixed, but could also not matter that much. // Discuss with sebastian
+
+## What to do next
+
+Make meetings with Sebastian and Koen!!!!!
+
+1. Have a system to generate and work with quantum circuits
+2. Create some metrics to use for the QAS
+   - expressivity: how uniformly does it cover the hilbert space
+   - entanglement: how many correlations exist between the qubits
+   - noise: what is the fidelity of the final circuit
+   - parameter count: how many parameters are in the circuit
+3. Make a genetic algorithm using (some of) these metrics
+4. Create a metric to estimate the "distance" between two PQCs
+5. Use this distance metric to make Quality Diversity evolutionary algorithm instead
+6. Compare with the baselines and normal GA with the metrics
+
+## What is knowledge you might want to have
+
+Expressivity is a double edged sword, too little and you won't get the result, too much
+and barren plateaus will make the optimizer suffer.
+
+Entanglement works well if the underlying problem is entangled, but can also decrease the expressivity.
+
+Noise is just straight up bad.
+
+More parameters is also kinda not what you want.
+
+## A letter to me
+
+You made a promise to Nynke that you would tell her if there were problems.
+So please do that, try not to wait until they're about to blow up, as that won't help.
+Sebastian and Koen also want you to succeed so if they're harsh that isn't a personal attack
+as they're just trying to help you.
+In general this will mean you waited too long to ask questions to them, not that you asked too many.
+
+And above all, remember that you are enough already. You don't need to do a PhD worth of research in
+6 months. That'd be insane. YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
+
+Peppi believes in you, Nynke believes in you, your parents believe in you, I (you) believe in you.
+You can do this, and if you think you can't I will bet on it.
+If it's too much torture, and you barely can get yourself to work on it. Take a step back, ask people
+and don't feel too bad about it. After all, it IS hard, you don't have to be able to do it all yet.
+This is what learning is all about.
+
+Yours truly,
+Noa