Posted on 09/12/2018 7:38:37 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
The reality of quantum computing could be just three years away
Quantum computing has moved out of the realm of theoretical physics and into the real world, but its potential and promise are still years away.
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, a powerhouse in the world of quantum research and a young upstart in the field presented visions for the future of the industry that illustrated both how far the industry has come and how far the technology has to go.
For both Dario Gil, the chief operating officer of IBM Research and the company’s vice president of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, and Chad Rigetti, a former IBM researcher who founded Rigetti Computing and serves as its chief executive, the moment that a quantum computer will be able to perform operations better than a classical computer is only three years away.
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That was the only application on my first work PC, an IBM PC Jr. I used it for everything. I even wrote a macro that let me do word processing on it. Once I got a document formatted how I wanted it, I would save it on a floppy disk, walk over to a co-worker's office, have him print it on his dot-matrix printer, then hand the copy to the office secretary so that she could transcribe it onto the Xerox word-processing system.
Those were the days, my friends...
““quantum” is such a cool word”
And how about that company name “TechCrunch Disrupt SF”?
Wow — the 80’s called — they are looking for the software that came with their IBM 386 XT...
HA! I’ve got em all beat- I take my laptop on quantum airlines for some quantum computing already
Beat the rush!
It would be a much better world if we still had Word Perfect and Quattro Pro.
A scam.
Traditional computing uses electronic 1’s and 0’s in its language and processes. Pretty much everything you do on a computer amounts to “yes/no”, “is/is not”, “and/or” and “if/then” processing of millions of 1’s and 0’s every fraction of a second.
Quantam Computing uses particles to express a massive number of “states” in the particle that can process data in more ways the a simple binary “yes/no”, etc...
Think of it this way — How much more efficient is it to use our alphabet to communicate instead of an alphabet that looks like this: 011000111010101 11011000011 11100011001101?
Read the article and was unclear what it meant?
I supported Lotus Notes for 15 years first with Lotus then with IBM . Always got a bad rap. But a lot of fortune 500 companies use it still.
You are a superhero in my book.
The guy who retired was a brilliant administrator that did all kinds of amazing gee-whiz stuff in hardware and software would be periodically hit the wall with notes.
Those times he would be in his office a few hours. When he got confounded, it was rare thing and Notes was the usual culprit.
I’m missing;
- .NSF files
- Notes Client installations/upgrades
- exorbitant license cost
(Do I need a sarc tag?)
Bad .ini file.
Expired or invalid ID even though it works on another system.
Server connections (argh).
Brought to you by the same folks that advertise atomic everything. Atomic flashlight. Atomic can opener. Atomic sun visor. Atomic cigarette lighter. Jeeze.
Only question remaining is....
How will Microsoft manage to screw it up?
Oh yes!! Expired certificates. How could I forget those?
Over the last few years, every new and re-certified user got an expiration of December 2032. If the Lord is willing, I’ll be retired for many years by that date.
Won’t matter anyway - I’ve got exactly two doc libs left to migrate away from Notes and I can then pull the plug. I’ll turn my data center into a dance floor when this occurs.
Be well.....
I hope to be changing jobs going into next year. Headhunters are starting to contact me again and I’m seeing new opportunities open up. I am looking to acquire a cert or two.
For the longest time no one seemed to care from my point of view but that seems to be changing too. My only active one is a vintage A+.
6 years in a help desk job where I’m a tad over qualified has burned me out. There isn’t anywhere to advance. Since my sister department is facing cuts, I have to figure my area is due a trim. To be honest, there is some bloat that I’m amazed that’s held on.
Early next year has me at officially 6 years where I’m at. I figure some longevity would be in my favor.
I thought it was “42”
Or solve the probability hurdles of spontaneous aircrashes and mysterious suicides that have beleaguered the woman’s history.
Does that mean it can finally determine how many genders are needed to replace binary sexuality? /s
No. I can suggest an analogy to what I think, very vaguely, is going on.In an analog “computer,” a circuit is constructed to have the mathematical properties of the problem of interest. Such a circuit has very high-(negative) gain amplifiers in it, and the circuit uses negative feedback to force the amplifiers into the states required. No actual numerical calculation is involved.Apparently the quantum computer concept is vaguely similar, but capable of very complicated discrete states, such that in principle it can converge on the solution to things like the two very large prime numbers which are the only factors of their product. Since the difficulty of that problem underpins som crucial encryption algorithms, any “computer” concept - however exotic - which could solve that problem quickly (rather than in, say, a million years) readily attracts the attention of security people.
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