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Quantum computers have arrived.
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Quantum computers have arrived.
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.Tags: None
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They have been here for a while now.
In fact, you can use one yourself on the net.
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/experience
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostThey have been here for a while now.
In fact, you can use one yourself on the net.
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/experience
Even though a layman's article it was correct in stating we are 'close' to a fully functioning Quantum computer.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostYes it has been around a while, but further looking at other reference indicates that a fully functioning Quantum Computer is a little further down the road.
Even though a layman's article it was correct in stating we are 'close' to a fully functioning Quantum computer.
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Yes, IBM is up to 20 qubits, and expects they'll be at 50 reasonably soon. That's about where quantum computers should show a clear advance over classical ones.
Unfortunately, the 50 qubit machine they'll have won't be error correcting, and there's no way of knowing when an error occurs. So to have confidence in a result, you've got to run it a few times and do majority polling - assuming that the errors are random and not systemic. (The article does get into this a bit.) IBM estimates that it'll need to be able to produce over 1,000 qubits on a single chip to have full error correction. Still, we're much further along than i expected we'd be.
I visited IBM Watson and got a tour of the quantum facility a while back, and talked to some of the people developing the hardware and software stack. If anybody has questions, i'd be happy to take a stab at answering them."Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostWhen will the quantum computers become conscious and take over the planet? Or create a portal to a hell dimension?"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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