ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Q-PACE

Q-pace is a very special kind of machine that can help us solve really hard math problems very quickly. Imagine you have a bunch of candies, and you want to share them equally among your friends. If you only have a few candies, it's easy to do it in your head. But if you have a lot of candies, it can be very hard to distribute them fairly among your friends.

Now imagine that the number of candies you have is like a math problem, and your friends are like different parts of a computer that help you solve it. Instead of giving the candies to your friends, you break down the math problem into smaller parts and give them to different parts of the computer. Each part of the computer works on its own part of the problem, and then they combine the results to get the final answer.

Q-pace is a machine that is designed to help us split up really hard math problems into lots of smaller parts and give them to lots of different parts of a computer. That way, we can solve the problem much faster than if we tried to do it all at once. It's like having a whole bunch of friends to help you share your candies. Q-pace is so good at solving hard math problems that it can even help us figure out things like how long it will take for a new medicine to work or how to design safer buildings.