Posted: 7/5/2017 5:27:12 PM EDT
https://youtu.be/60OkanvToFI
 UNBOXING A QUANTUM COMPUTER! – Holy $H!T Ep 19 Not consumer grade... but they are much more compact than I was expecting. I was expecting a room full of equipment to measure 1 qbit... not for a whole bunch to fit and be measurable on something chip sized. |
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I really wanted to watch that, but I made it about halfway through before I wanted to throat punch that guy through my monitor. He's like verbal click bait guy or something. 
His voice is super grating too. |
| Current crop are snake oil, always have been (Quantum stuff started hitting the institutional market in the early 2000s as infinite computing)... but just in case it isn't one day I appreciate that our .gov is investing in the space. Kind of like fusion reactors that don't suck - it is worth looking into but who the hell knows when/if it will payoff for our nation. In the case of quantum computing I think the big issue for .gov is communications code making and breaking with this new technology I guess, not many other uses I can picture. In the video the host mentions NASA as a customer which is a weird one as they really do not need this tech. After all Apollo 11 recalculated their landing on the moon using notepad math at the last second due to their original landing site being covered in sharp rocks. They could benefit more from higher end cameras, more scouting flights, and lidar/radar... to avoid big sharp rocks that would have failed the mission, none of these things involve spending money on a unsecured cloud based unproven tech that may pay off in 50 years in the codebreaking world. |
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yup. it does make you wonder about what will happen when nothing on the internet is secure. Quoted:
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why bother mining when you can just break the encryption and have everyone's everything... to include regular currency... it does make you wonder about what will happen when nothing on the internet is secure. I bet darpa/Boston dynamics is drooling waiting for a smaller version too. Skynet, here we come! |
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Current crop are snake oil, always have been (Quantum stuff started hitting the institutional market in the early 2000s as infinite computing)... but just in case it isn't one day I appreciate that our .gov is investing in the space. Kind of like fusion reactors that don't suck - it is worth looking into but who the hell knows when/if it will payoff for our nation. In the case of quantum computing I think the big issue for .gov is communications code making and breaking with this new technology I guess, not many other uses I can picture. In the video the host mentions NASA as a customer which is a weird one as they really do not need this tech. After all Apollo 11 recalculated their landing on the moon using notepad math at the last second due to their original landing site being covered in sharp rocks. They could benefit more from higher end cameras, more scouting flights, and lidar/radar... to avoid big sharp rocks that would have failed the mission, none of these things involve spending money on a unsecured cloud based unproven tech that may pay off in 50 years in the codebreaking world. |
| There's a D-wave in my building. I walk by it every morning. I could get time on it, but it's somewhat useless because it's not true quantum computing. It's one chip and it does take a large room full of cryo equipment to keep cold. They have multiple redundancy on the cooling system because it takes 4 weeks to cool down. There are 2 whole racks just to control its environment. It's kind of neat and it's on the right track to quantum computing, but it's more like an in between normal computing and quantum computing. |
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How you gonna write the software to decrypt cybercurrency or predict the stockmarket? Youd constantly be rewriting to some new aspect or another, and they'd already be huge programs. |
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It's not perfect. You just need to have a mathematical equation that you need it to solve. Finding a unique solution or set of unique solutions to that problem is what it can do orders of magnitude faster than traditional computing because it can simultaneously search all possible solutions. So if you can describe the trend of the stock market with a set of differential equations, you're in business. 
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