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Re: A good news

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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.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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