Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com!not-for-mail Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:41:33 -0700 (Seattle) Message-ID: References: Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,alt.computer.security,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server Subject: Better Randomness ? ! User-Agent: Jeff-Relf.Me/X.ZIP X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueworldhosting.com Organization: BWH Usenet NNTPSwitch-Cluster Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 01:41:32 -0400 X-Trace: e0bcc5630600cec90b8a609486 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:329079 sci.physics:528666 alt.computer.security:5416 comp.sys.mac.system:84379 alt.hacker:9305 alt.privacy.anon-server:46596 Professor William_Unruh wrote: > a program to efficiently find the minimum of an arbitrary function > is incredibly powerful. > > Now the question of course is whether or not the DWave system can > actually find such minima faster than a classical computer can. > > That is still somewhat up in the air. > And whether their computer actually uses quantum mechanics > in the process (rather than thermal monti-carlo say). Better Randomness ? ! I don't think so. Seriously, _How_ could thermo/quantum randomness be better than what I've got, on my i7_4790s/Windows_8 PC ? ! How ? ! I used genetic algorithms back in 1992; it's no big deal, nothing new. "Randomness" is just ignorance, nothing more. Intrinsically, the (4D) timescape is static, immutable. "Life" is virtual, not real. We're robots, programmed to want food, water, air, etc. Like the sun, stars and everything else... we consume "exergy" (energy that can do work); i.e. we ratchet entropy.