1. Go to this page from the Australian National University.
2. Choose the Trial option and sign up for a free API key (this will allow you to do 100 readings per month).
3. Once you have verified your email address, go to this page and click View.
4. Copy your API key and paste it into the API key input field in QuantumTarot.
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Once you have your API key, you can select the number of cards you want to draw.
You can drag the cards into the shape of your desired spread.
QuantumTarot assumes that the user has some basic knowledge of Tarot already (for interpreting the cards). If you don't know how to read Tarot, you can quickly learn here. If you don't know any spreads, there are many good ones listed here.
Once you have created your spread, click ‘Send quantum vacuum API request’ to draw cards from the vacuum.
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There is much debate around the utility of existing digital Tarot services. Traditional Tarot relies on better-than-random shuffling performed by the conscious reader, allowing supernatural forces to guide the card order. Digital Tarot uses pseudorandom algorithms to draw cards; I feel this lowers the quality of the reading significantly. QuantumTarot uses random numbers based on quantum fluctuations measured from a vacuum. From the API hosts:
Other random number generators are often pseudo-random which is to say they can be biased or may repeat at some point. This can lead to biases in things like simulations and data science. Additionally, if an application relies on a truly unbiased source of randomness this can introduce a weakness or security hole that could potentially be exploited. Quantum mechanics guarantees the numbers we provide are unbiased and the experiment is setup such that it runs automatically and requires no human intervention.
Make up your own mind, but I think quantum random is a far better source for divination than pseudorandom.
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