[HN Gopher] Turn down the quantum volume ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-05 23:00 UTC)