> On 11 Jan 2019, at 11:23, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > “This scheme, like all other schemes for quantum computation, relies on > speculative technology, does not in its current form take into account all > possible sources of noise, unreliability and manufacturing error, and > probably will not work.” > > Maybe they are right - quantum chips will only ultimately only be useful in > generating random numbers - but the above does sound like "fuel-powered > machines will never fly" in the 1800s.
Yes, especially with the error-tolerant types of quantum computation. It is the author (Dyakonov) which relies on negative speculative ideas about technology limitation, and as you illustrate, that is never a good idea. No doubt that quantum computations are very hard to realise, but for an argument of impossibility, I would need more sustained argumentation. I tend to agree with the rebuttal that Brent has also linked to. Bruno > > - pt > > > On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 5:45:47 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > Interesting articles. > > Brent > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > Another rebuttal: > https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/01/09/the-case-against-the-case-against-quantum-computing/ > > <https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/01/09/the-case-against-the-case-against-quantum-computing/> > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 1:57 PM : > > In the IEEE Spectrum last week, Mikhail Dyakonov presented his overview of > > the field: > > > > https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing > > > > <https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing> > > > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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 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.
