By: oberleit
Has anyone actually seen the machine at the other end of the remote interface? Heh..
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Back in 1994 or so, a friend of mine was trying to tell me that the next big thing was trinary memory...
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I went to school (at UC-Berkeley) with one of the board members, Gene Dantsker, who got his degree under John Clarke, an expert on SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices), which form the...
View ArticleBy: polyglot
They're demoing it to a credulous public and performing the calculations remotely. "No really, there is a quantum computer at the other end of this cable, we promise!". I don't believe it for a second.
View ArticleBy: seawallrunner
5) I've never heard of these guys before. they have been toiling away in vancouver for years. I attended a presentation by Geordie Rose about the technology back in 2002 when he presented to NewMIC....
View ArticleBy: mr_crash_davis
"This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Product names, anyone? My bet's on iQube." iDunno.
View ArticleBy: Rumple
thanks mr_roboto. My understanding though is that a patent can be pretty vague: "a novel way to wire the doohickies together while maintaining suspension in substances rich in silcon and myrrh"....
View ArticleBy: mr_roboto
Which is not to say that I think this is phony; I'm in absolutely no position to judge that. It just all very strange.
View ArticleBy: mr_roboto
Rumplewrites"Would they publish if it meant they lost their head start of unique intellectual property? Publishing really matters to academics, and I understand it can be important for credibility, but...
View ArticleBy: Rumple
Would they publish if it meant they lost their head start of unique intellectual property? Publishing really matters to academics, and I understand it can be important for credibility, but equally I...
View ArticleBy: weston
This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Product names, anyone? My bet's on iQube.
View ArticleBy: cgs06
Boatmeme, TBone -- thanks much. Dobie -- that's a shame, because the scientific community in Canada has been extremely savvy about where they spend their limited resources. For example, the Sudbury...
View ArticleBy: jeffamaphone
The smartest guy I know in the field is Dave Bacon. Granted, he is also the only guy I know. I took his Quantum Computing class at the UW. Here is what he has to say on the topic. In short: He's...
View ArticleBy: BoatMeme
cgs06 - I bought your book for my girlfriend to explain some of the complex ideas that I'm just poor at communicating. Picked it up last week and found myself sucked in. Nice work!
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cgs06 -The investing/venture capital market in Canada is tiny and extremely risk averse. Despite any nationalist rhetoric you might hear, there isn't really the climate of fostering innovation that...
View ArticleBy: BoatMeme
...and with the oncoming energy crunch, nobody's going to be able to afford a computer that sucks up 1.21 gigawatts of power. 1.21 Gigawatts!?!?!!!
View ArticleBy: metaplectic
Leonid Levin explains here why quantum computing cannot work as claimed, even in principle: The major problem is the requirement that basic quantum equations hold to multi-hundredth if not millionth...
View ArticleBy: dobie
Is anybody else feeling all hot and bothered with all this talk of processing inputs? I need to take a cold shower...
View ArticleBy: George_Spiggott
The beauty of a quantum computer is that while you don't necessarily get the right answer, in some of the universes that get forked off there is a version of you that does.
View ArticleBy: Terminal Verbosity
Since I don't understand any of this, I'll just point out this awesome bit from the Q*Bert link: Dedicated upright cabinets for Q*bert contain a solenoid that creates a knocking sound inside the...
View ArticleBy: TBoneMcCool
cgs06: It's comments like yours that make MetaFilter occasionally so damn awesome. Thanks for the insight.
View ArticleBy: Horace Rumpole
We won't know until they open the box. You mean until we make them open the box.
View ArticleBy: justkevin
I'm highly skeptical as well. Look at their optical picture of the qubit processor. It has the 16 qubits on a circuit board connected by wiring. In a real quantum computer, the qubits must be...
View ArticleBy: stbalbach
The third link in the FPP has an interesting thread at the bottom which says there is a "roadmap" to have 1,000 qbits by 2008. It seems like it is tailored for a highly specific application. I am...
View ArticleBy: pardonyou?
This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. Actually, Apple already unveiled it at the last Macworld expo -- it sparked a near riot in the conference hall. You just happen to be in the...
View ArticleBy: Falconetti
Nobody saw him, the quantum man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out then you thought And not a wave but a particle. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's indeterminate It must...
View ArticleBy: mr_crash_davis
"but will it tell me where the final Wonka's Golden Ticket is located?" It could, but that would be cheating. Anyway, haven't we already had a quantum computer? As I recall, early Pentiums said 3 was...
View ArticleBy: cgs06
I've covered quantum computing for a number of years -- in fact, my latest book is on information theory and discusses quantum information and quantum computation. I'm quite skeptical. Some context:...
View ArticleBy: juiceCake
This will only be true and actual when Apple does it. But for an explanation with drama, watch that episode where Worf is splintered into endless quantum universes that he travels about in and people...
View ArticleBy: Balisong
I heard that was the beauty of the quantum computer. You don't even need to run a program to get the correct answer. I'm not even sure if you need to write the complete software for said un-run...
View ArticleBy: Muddler
All I know is that there's a good chance this thing will rip a whole right through the space-time continuum... ...and with the oncoming energy crunch, nobody's going to be able to afford a computer...
View ArticleBy: pax digita
This is kewl, but I wish we could get fusion and desktop nanotech first....
View ArticleBy: muddgirl
First off, I agree with Osmanthus. I'm ridiculously highly suspicious of technology claims made to the mass public. For anyone who's interested, here are the US patents that I could dig up from D-Wave....
View ArticleBy: medium format
but will it tell me where the final Wonka's Golden Ticket is located?
View ArticleBy: stavrosthewonderchicken
My tiny comment slits wavicled your jocularity beam and hived off a coupla new universes. Cluck you, buddy: first observed, best dressed!
View ArticleBy: Malor
I've never understood this at all well (I don't think very many people do), but from what I do get, the point of a quantum computer is not to 'compute' in a traditional sense. Right now, computers are...
View ArticleBy: stavrosthewonderchicken
Cat's dead, cat's alive, whatever: who's going to clean the poop out of the box?
View ArticleBy: flabdablet
The thing that's always struck me about QC is that very very small proofs of concept can often be made to work, but scaling the thing up to achieve anything that's actually hard for a conventional...
View ArticleBy: Osmanthus
I suspect Dwave is deluded if not an outright hoax. It bears some of the marks of a free-energy scam; instead is the first 'free computation' scam. Their device is not actually a 'quantum computer' in...
View ArticleBy: loquacious
There exists in that box, simultaneously, a computer and no computer at all. We won't know until they open the box.
View ArticleBy: Human Flesh
Why can scientists come up with this, but not, say, a viable alternative to oil or a miracle crop that ends world hunger?We Can Put A Man On The Moon, But We Can't Make Killer Robot Police?
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