On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > You folks want Profundity-If this is fact, it is, Profundity itself. A > Japanese team came up with a super-duper quantum computing architecture, > that looks to be able to eat the Protein Folding Problem, with pepper and > salt. I don't feel this news is too good to be true. Needs much work, > development, bottleneck fixing, progging, but, am guessing that you wanted > a Singularity? Ya got a Singularity. > *https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/09/japanese-researchers-work-out-theoretical-universal-quantum-computer-that-could-scale-to-millions-of-qubits.html > <https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/09/japanese-researchers-work-out-theoretical-universal-quantum-computer-that-could-scale-to-millions-of-qubits.html>* > That's interesting but they can't scale it up to make a full scale machine just yet because existing error correcting schemes can only do so much and their error rate is still about 6 dB too high. The authors of the paper admit this but say: " *However, the requirement for fault tolerance is likely to be satisfied in the near future by further improvement of technology or error-correction protocols* " I hope they're right but getting those last few dB's is hard. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
