On 11/29/2017 7:42 PM, John McKown wrote:
Do you have any_good_ web sites? I find it interesting, but it appears
mainly to address highly parallel processing. I have trouble trying to
figure out how it is going to allow payroll to run more efficiently (be
that faster or cheaper). I can see it doing cryptography, or especially
breaking same. Or protein folding.
It's not parallel processing. QC leverages the weirdness of the physical
universe to solve
problems that have a hidden twist within them of a sort which is not
exploitable through
classical math nor through classic computation.
It's as if subatomic particles spoke to us and said, "In binary
computing, you've been using us as beads
on an abacus. But look what amazing dances we can do on our own, which
mirror computational
truths because those computational truths are themselves manifestations
of mankind's limited
grasp of the physical universe."
It's not parallel processing. It's just weirdness we didn't know was
there and useful until we looked.
Log into IBM Quantum Experience and RTFM and follow links and blogs
which in turn will take you to links
and blogs, lather, rinse, repeat :) If the math makes your head hurt,
come back and post here.
IBM Quantum Experience is great because/these folks are the absolute
100% bleeding edge/
of the real-world engineering making these amazing theoretical fantasies
come true.
That's who effing IBM is. Absolutely the bleeding edge of computational
engineering, bar none.
They used to sell meat scales, you know.
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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