On Sat, May 18, 2013 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't think D-Wave would be very good at factoring numbers, but that's >> OK protein folding is vastly, astronomically, more important. >> > > > I think you're underestimating the importance of cryptography. >
Not at all, without cryptography internet commerce would be impossible; but I think you're underestimating the importance of protein folding, solving that problem would transform our world beyond recognition. > > Arguably, the current bottleneck in health care is economical and > political, not technological. If true then rich people wouldn't die from cancer, in fact they wouldn't die at all, but they do. > You might be interested in this (extensive) blog post by Scott Aaronson, > a well known quantum computing researcher from MIT: > http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 > Aaronson concedes that quantum entanglement is involved in the machine and he congratulates D-Wave for being the first to entangle so many qbits; however he says that D-Wave's claim to have made calculations much faster than a conventional computer could are at best misleading and at worst downright deceitful. I have no way of knowing who is telling the truth and which numbers are correct in all this, but I do know that if D-Wave is lying the deception won't last long. I hope Aaronson is wrong because if it turns out that D-Wave was deliberately misleading investors then in the eyes of many people it will discredit the entire Quantum Computing field not just D-Wave's approach, and considering the amount of money involved somebody could even end up in jail. One way or the other we should know soon. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
