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Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy”
MIT Technology Review ^ | 9/17/19 | Martin Giles

Posted on 09/20/2019 3:20:30 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: Truthoverpower
Hey google supremacy tell your brilliant computer to climb up on a roof and wire things for me

The legal lotto system and workman's comp insurance rates ensure that jobs that require climbing things will be taken over by robots early during the transition.

21 posted on 09/20/2019 3:55:57 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: LibWhacker

It’s good it’s Google because that means when the US Government takes them down with antitrust and violations of rights, the formulas and algorithms will become government property.

The quantum leap computing has the capacity and ability to take out banking security. Its realization is just another flag on the road to the demise of central banking in favor of decentralized, individualized gold-backed cyber which will unveil a few years down the road.


22 posted on 09/20/2019 3:56:41 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: rbg81

What problem did they actually solve? Is the margin too small to contain it?


23 posted on 09/20/2019 3:57:22 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: LibWhacker

Being weaponized by the chinese as we type.


24 posted on 09/20/2019 3:57:40 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: LibWhacker

But, but: It’s not clear what task Google’s quantum machine was working on, but it’s likely to be a very narrow one: like social justice, or mass advertising, or methods of implementing social credit scores behind the scenes, defeating DJT in 2020, ending conservatives and their voices in public.


25 posted on 09/20/2019 4:03:32 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: LibWhacker

“The machines are notoriously prone to errors, because even the slightest change in temperature or tiny vibration can destroy the delicate state of qubits.”


26 posted on 09/20/2019 4:04:38 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: rbg81

Google got it from China in exchange for writing the Chinese social credit score code.


27 posted on 09/20/2019 4:05:17 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Fungi; UCANSEE2

The quantum computing problem is not one problem but a large collection of subproblems, each with its own signature.

Some problem subsets are easier to crack than others.

It makes sense to work on the subset that can be solved to see if the solution process can be retooled for another subset.

From my reading a quantum problem solver eliminates vast swaths of numerical space to omit from further consideration or identifies large swaths that can be solved, then eliminated from further inclusion.

Basically it eliminates a lot of unnecessary dimensionality of numerical space or space that’s not at the core of that which needs to be cracked.


28 posted on 09/20/2019 4:08:48 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: LibWhacker

Only some tasks can be computed in parallel. Some require sequential processing.

Somebody splain:
Computers are deterministic. They rely on the axiom that a statement can be true or false and that there is no midway point between true and false.
“Quantum “ computing uses bits that can be both true and false at the same time.

Splain to my purely logical mind how that can be.


29 posted on 09/20/2019 4:11:28 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: I want the USA back

They created an answer. It will take 10,000 years to find out if it’s a correct answer.


30 posted on 09/20/2019 4:17:50 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: Fungi

For one thing, speed. As they say in the article, “Google’s quantum processor was able to perform a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would take today’s most advanced supercomputer, known as Summit, around 10,000 years.” This is great if you’re searching for new drugs to fight disease, but not so great if you are trying to encrypt sensitive communication between our governmental agencies, since it is not the case that our current encryption schemes are truly “unbreakable.” Instead, they just take a very, very, long time to break, thousands of years, or more, even with our fastest computers. Now, along comes somebody with a quantum computer who can do it in minutes. Oops, back to the drawing board!


31 posted on 09/20/2019 4:27:47 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: PetroniusMaximus

So it can turn Bruce Jenner back into a guy?


32 posted on 09/20/2019 4:32:13 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LibWhacker

Noah was dealing in qubits thousands of years ago.

CC


33 posted on 09/20/2019 4:37:26 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: LibWhacker; bitt

So, Google has the “Black Box” Code Breaker tool
from the movie “Sneakers”. All the movie missed
was that it would be a quantum computing device.

Too Many Secrets, indeed.

What could go wrong...
May have gone very wrong already.


34 posted on 09/20/2019 4:47:14 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Lol


35 posted on 09/20/2019 4:47:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: UCANSEE2

My money is on Big Blue.


36 posted on 09/20/2019 4:57:25 PM PDT by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: LS

Hey! I said “reversing polarity” not reversing perversity!!!


37 posted on 09/20/2019 4:58:52 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: miliantnutcase

I think they’re hand assembling code at this stage of the game :-) ... anything higher level than the equivalent of “set this bank of switches and push a button to load” is still a few years away.

Ok, that might be a bit *too* low level, but I’d be surprised if they actually compile programs for this machine :-) .

That being said, programmers better learn how to think parallel :-).


38 posted on 09/20/2019 5:25:55 PM PDT by edh
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To: Dogbert41

It’d be checkmate in 9 moves. You’d be left wondering what went wrong.


39 posted on 09/20/2019 5:31:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob (You can't get mad at me. I'm the only friend you have on FR.)
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40 posted on 09/20/2019 5:41:14 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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