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1 posted on 09/02/2017 4:48:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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No offense, but I call BS. 51 atoms does not a computer make.


2 posted on 09/02/2017 5:05:14 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Does it run DOS?


3 posted on 09/02/2017 5:14:51 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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It’s unlikely we’ll be playing Grand Theft Auto VR8K-3000 on a quantum-souped Playstation 7 any time soon. Sorry, folks.

The program will never take off until it proves it can handle cat pictures.

4 posted on 09/02/2017 5:17:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Common core math hits the grant system mainstream.
Math results that have enough random results that they do not match on repeat iterations of the computation are worthless no matter how fast they run.

Besides, I worked on tri state computers in the 80’s. They were unstable then too. There is a reason that methodology was abandoned then as now.


6 posted on 09/02/2017 5:25:03 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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If someone invents a quantum computer then encryption is going to become ineffective overnight.


8 posted on 09/02/2017 5:35:56 PM PDT by JohnyBoy (We should forgive communists, but not before they are hanged.)
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Sounds something like a principle of one Werner Heisenberg


11 posted on 09/02/2017 5:41:27 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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I’m trying to understand the fundamental principle involved in quantum computing. After the reading the following 3 paragraphs from the linked article, together with the stuff I found elsewhere (beneath that) I think I’m finally just now beginning to understand. I remain very unclear as to how that fuzzy principle of quantum mechanics, where a quantum entity is in a state of neither here nor there can be used to flip a transistor on or off as the 1s and 0s of standard binary computing do.

Any help would be appreciated.

From the article...

“What it does do is give us a third kind of bit where typical computers have only two [1 and 0].

In quantum computing, we apply quantum superposition – that odd cloud of ‘maybes’ that a particle occupies before we observe its existence cemented as one of two different states – to solving highly complex computational problems.

While those kinds of problems are a long, tedious process that tax even our best supercomputers, a quantum computer’s “qubit” mix of 1s, 0s, and that extra space in between can make exercises such as simulating quantum systems in molecules or factorising prime numbers vastly easier to crunch.”
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From an outside source...

“Binary is a counting system used by computers to do mathematics. Instead of using 0 to 9 as digits, it only uses 1s and 0s. This is because it is easier for a computer to represent numbers with only ones and zeroes (on and off) rather than with 10 different digits.”

“The circuits in a computer’s processor are made up of billions of transistors. A transistor is a tiny switch that is activated by the electronic signals it receives. The digits 1 and 0 used in binary reflect the on and off states of a transistor. Computer programs are sets of instructions.”


12 posted on 09/02/2017 6:00:13 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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Schroedinger’s cat already has one.

;)


19 posted on 09/02/2017 6:51:57 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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What does this mean for white supremacy?


20 posted on 09/02/2017 7:16:47 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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21 posted on 09/02/2017 7:42:07 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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“The truth is both fascinating and disappointing. It’s unlikely we’ll be playing Grand Theft Auto VR8K-3000 on a quantum-souped Playstation 7 any time soon. Sorry, folks.”

My father has a 32 bit core memory board from a computer he worked on.
It sits a few inches away from a multi-terabyte system capable of running virtual reality.

Don’t underestimate how fast & far everything can change.


22 posted on 09/02/2017 8:05:25 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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Introducing that in between part means letting in the subtle.

And as we learn from Genesis 3:1, subtle is a sign of evil.


28 posted on 09/04/2017 12:46:59 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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