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Re: A good news

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On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 5:06:31 PM UTC-5, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
> On 1/22/2016 4:06 PM, Ramine wrote:
> > Professor O'Brien said: "In less than ten years quantum computers will
> > begin to outperform everyday computers, leading to breakthroughs in
> > artificial intelligence, the discovery of new pharmaceuticals and beyond."
> 
>  From what I've heard on the status of quantum computation (my general 
> source is Scott Aaronson), the current status of quantum computers is 
> "we don't know if it's possible to really build one yet."
> 
> And if you want to bring up D-WAVE, what's currently known about D-WAVE 
> is that it requires you to solve a very specific problem class 
> (simulated annealing, basically) with a very specific topology, such 
> that the standard state-of-the-art classical techniques operating on a 
> desktop computer for relevant problems can outperform the D-WAVE chip 
> (and probably be better parallelized).
> 
> Then again, we have come a long way in the past decade. We've doubled 
> the size of the largest number factored with a quantum computer... to 8 
> bits.

I thought they already had some working quantum computers, for limited scientific research, just not for the masses.
The next big tech I believe for the masses is 3D RAM. It is supposed to be slower than RAM but faster than Flash or current SSDs and able to retain values without power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint

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