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IBM claims huge strides in quantum computing
CNET ^
| February 27, 2012 9:00 PM PS
| Daniel Terdiman
Posted on 03/08/2012 7:01:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv; blam; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
With transistor junctions down to the size of an atom, quantum computers are bound to become reality very soon.
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03/08/2012 7:07:01 PM PST
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mylife
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Riiiiight. What’s a qubit?
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:08:01 PM PST
by
battlecry
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Great article; thanks for posting it (even if I am a bit slow to pick up on it).
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:10:18 PM PST
by
Oceander
(TINSTAAFL - Mother Nature Abhors a Free Lunch almost as much as She Abhors a Vacuum)
To: battlecry
Its a device to keep score.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One of the things that makes the work huge is fact checking the results.
My test equip takes me out to .000000000 decimal places.
I round that to .000 for practical applications and .000000000 for precision applications
These guys are looking at .000000000000000000 or something to that effect. How can you prove that there are no physical influences in the raw data or mistakes in the math that are misleading?
I look at things in nanoseconds. I will trust the big guys to figure this out.
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03/08/2012 7:24:18 PM PST
by
mylife
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I can understand two’s complements and have a inkling of I&Q pairs, but this stuff blows my mind.
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03/08/2012 7:33:15 PM PST
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mylife
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is way harder to understand than J K valence shells.
I am in over my head LOL
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:37:14 PM PST
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mylife
To: battlecry
Whats a qubit? Qubit, Forebit, Hexbit, a Dollar
Sounds like a football cheer
To: battlecry
How long can you tread water?
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:38:18 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: battlecry
Good question. A quick search results in them never really defining it as more than the set of quantum states, but once it’s read, you detect only a bit [0,1]. Now I’m curious and will have to do more research.
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:39:54 PM PST
by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
To: HangnJudge
Qubit, Forebit, Hexbit, a Dollar Sounds like a football cheer...all for the Gators...stand up and Holler!
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:42:09 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: battlecry
>O?Riiiiight. Whats a qubit?
(because most readers won't get your reference)
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posted on
03/08/2012 7:45:01 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: UCANSEE2
Well, thanks, you and dfwgator did. The fellow who said he was over his head, could be, say, threading water, so I’d count him in too.
Noah had to get all the animals in groups of two, male and female, thus starting the binary computing system. He also knew the qubit so the guy was way ahead of his time.
To: battlecry
Whats a qubit?
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posted on
03/08/2012 8:02:07 PM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bookmark.
Wonder which generation of quantum computers will become aware?
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posted on
03/08/2012 8:07:53 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: battlecry
Wasn't the Ark 40 Qubits? ☺
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posted on
03/08/2012 8:11:59 PM PST
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mylife
To: The Cajun
Most of us believe that wont happen till we perfect organic computers first.
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03/08/2012 8:15:58 PM PST
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mylife
To: mylife
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