[RoosterRedux]

I am a small investor in the semiconductor industry, but have begun researching the up and coming (or completely bogus) quantum computing industry.

Thought this article was interesting.

Notice that I posted it in General/Chat.

Not sure it deserves a posting in news just yet.

[bitt]

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[fishtank]

The Obama administration was a clustering algorithm.....

[fuzzylogic]

I too am waiting to really understand where quantum computing can take us. I think it may assist with security, in knowing or not if something was intercepted or “observed”. ...after that I don’t see hard use-cases, just a lot of maybe’s. Even with the use-case here (clustering) they admit it is just a science project that isn’t going to lead to anything in production.

[factoryrat]

I would be interested in quantum entanglement, or as Einstein put it - “spooky action at a distance.”

It would imply instantaneous communications over any distance, if one could figure out how to send and receive the information.

[Bitman]

I wonder how well the speed and power quantum computing hints at would fare in the blockchain world.

[MMaschin]

If a true quantum computer exists, all encryption algorithms are worthless. Encryption relies on the inherent difficulty In factoring large numbers. That difficulty goes away with the quantum computing.

To factor a large number with a classical computer, requires massive amounts of computing power, for a quantum computer, it would, theoretically be instantaneous.

[ShadowAce]

[WayneS]

...the logic-defying principles of quantum physics...

Logic-defying?

[WayneS]

Has anyone asked Schrödinger’s cat what he thinks of all this?

[mowowie]

Will it be able to answer the ultimate question of life?

[PIF]

The Chinese are way ahead in this area - they have QCs which communicate from the ground to satellite and to other ground entities - communications which cannot be intercepted and cannot be broken. As far as clustering goes - we gave them the clustering algorithms for free, enabling them to make the fastest super computers in the world.