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  Re: A good news Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2016-01-22 16:06 -0600
    Re: A good news Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 06:34 -0800

#33519 — Re: A good news

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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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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