Certain computer scientists have already scoffed at this development as not being accurate. I hope it is accurate, because the species needs all the help it can get to survive. At best it is a hybrid, quantum-conventional computer. The road to any kind of good singularity seems to be very long, and I ponder if there is some unappreciated development in computer engineering and materials science that could catapult us where we need to go, instead of the quantum?
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Dec 9, 2015 12:41 pm Subject: Google's Quantum Computer Google's D-wave machine is not a general purpose Quantum Computer that can work on any sort of problem, those are more difficult to build, but now it looks like D-Wave's claim that it can solve "QUBO class problems" dramatically faster than conventional computers may have some truth to it. Interestingly protein folding is a QUBO problem and solving that would revolutionize medicine and be a big stepping stone toward full scale Drexler style Nanotechnology. Google just published a paper saying their D-Wave can solve those type of problems 100 million times faster than the regular computer: " We found that for problem instances involving nearly 1000 binary variables, quantum annealing significantly outperforms its classical counterpart, simulated annealing. It is more than 10^8 times faster than simulated annealing running on a single core. We also compared the quantum hardware to another algorithm called Quantum Monte Carlo. This is a method designed to emulate the behavior of quantum systems, but it runs on conventional processors. While the scaling with size between these two methods is comparable, they are again separated by a large factor sometimes as high as 10^8. " On the other hand Google's paper has not been peer reviewed yet, on the third hand the regular computer was not using the most efficient algorithm available, on the fourth hand it does prove that the D-wave really is using Quantum logic in its internal computations not regular logic, on the fifth hand as the problem gets larger the advantage the D-Wave would have over the regular computer would increase. You can see the paper at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02206v1.pdf 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
