[HN Gopher] Turn down the quantum volume
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       Turn down the quantum volume
        
       Author : furcyd
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2020-03-05 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.scottaaronson.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.scottaaronson.com)
        
       | nrclark wrote:
       | Not trolling, but curious - do quantum computers do anything
       | useful yet?
        
         | baddox wrote:
         | My impression is that we've recent just maybe gotten to the
         | point where someone has proven that they have a computer that
         | actually _is_ doing quantum computing for something that would
         | be exponentially slower to do on a classical computer.
         | 
         | My understanding is that this is what Google has recently
         | claimed to have done, and before that no one had published any
         | serious claims that they had done real quantum computing.
         | 
         | As always, Scott Aaronson has a solid article, _some_ of which
         | I can understand: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317
        
         | obi1kenobi wrote:
         | There are some interesting ideas around using quantum computers
         | for verifiably-random numbers, including a proposal from Scott
         | Aaronson himself: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-turn-a-
         | quantum-compute...
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Or in other words: fire your marketing department.
        
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