On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
