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When I first tried to post this, I thought I was intellectually equipped to post it , but not to comment on it, The moderator informs me I wasn't so much as intellectually equipped to post it. Anyway, here it is for those who are intellectually equipped but didn't have a chance to read Nature yeasterday
1 posted on 12/10/2024 9:16:36 AM PST by sopo
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"What's a qubit?"

-PJ

2 posted on 12/10/2024 9:19:07 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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That leaves me out.


3 posted on 12/10/2024 9:19:58 AM PST by caver
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Am I supposed to get all excited when I hear that things like AI will get way more powerful.


4 posted on 12/10/2024 9:21:53 AM PST by Revel
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In other words, we can get to the wrong answers faster than ever! *yay*

AI: None of us are as dumb as all of us.


7 posted on 12/10/2024 9:28:11 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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So, what was the answer to the problem it solved?


8 posted on 12/10/2024 9:28:51 AM PST by farmguy ( )
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“The Trouble With Qubits” should have been a Star Trek episode.


12 posted on 12/10/2024 9:30:37 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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I don’t buy it.


17 posted on 12/10/2024 9:31:47 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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By contrast, Alan Norton, of NY’s IBM Research, was putting together a graphics presentation for a conference and this was the project video I made for him to show. In 1989, he was able to create a physically based world in graphics with laws of physics defining what would happen when you let it run, then kept adjusting things until his world did what he wanted it to. To do this, he was connecting together all of our computers around the world at the times when people were sleeping and there was less strain on the systems. The contrast between what was possible then and now is simply staggering.

The demo vase and teapot were grandmother’s and my bestie’s daughter was the one catching the teapot under the table each time Alan had a take. We had to spray non-glare onto Alan’s glasses to get thru this. He was truly one of the wonderful people at Research.

Computer History - Breaking the Utah Teapot - 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQuHpUyZbI


23 posted on 12/10/2024 9:35:38 AM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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My old deci-deci-log-trig slide rule might have done it just as quickly...


26 posted on 12/10/2024 9:42:24 AM PST by SuperLuminal
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I am not certain that I would be “qualified “ but I grew up learning Basic on green-screen 7 1/2 floppy drives and later C+ on a 486 DX2. Quantum computing makes Deep Blue look like an oversized punch card computer ... sound about right?


31 posted on 12/10/2024 9:46:26 AM PST by Spacetrucker
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The Three Body Problem?...................


34 posted on 12/10/2024 9:49:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Sorry, but I stopped reading at the over-the-top time estimate in the headline: "a quadrillion time the age of the universe", indeed. 🙄

Who in hell figures this out - the same geniuses who tell me that my LED light bulbs that burned out in 8 months are going to last 13 years?

39 posted on 12/10/2024 9:54:12 AM PST by DJ Frisat (If I said something really stupid, chances are I was under the influence of AutoCorrect. 🙄🫤)
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Yay “better” advertising tech.


50 posted on 12/10/2024 10:30:16 AM PST by 13foxtrot
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Stock price is up on this news - that’s easy to understand...


52 posted on 12/10/2024 10:34:15 AM PST by GOPJ (Will Lara Trump become the first woman President of the United States? She'd be great....)
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I’m sure our government will use this wisely

;p


53 posted on 12/10/2024 10:38:23 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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I suppose this means AI will accelerate...


57 posted on 12/10/2024 10:52:20 AM PST by simpson96
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What did they ask it - “Does this make my ass look fat?”


59 posted on 12/10/2024 11:03:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Bitcoin and altcoins have crashed the past 2 days over concerns Quantum chips can crack the codes that secure the cryptocurrencies. But my reading of it is that these fears are way overblown, and it would take hundreds of thousands of these chips to even come close to cracking BTC, and even then BTC can upgrade itself with a fork.


62 posted on 12/10/2024 11:19:43 AM PST by montag813
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this would make cracking encrypted streams trivial.

almost everything on the net is stream based.


64 posted on 12/10/2024 11:50:28 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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For those who are not intellectually equipped.

I’ll be in the garage working on something will check the answers later.


66 posted on 12/10/2024 12:31:56 PM PST by Vaduz
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