Weezers, double expo. I still would like to unleash these suckers for doing new inventions, or improving the ones we have. I always go (alone in this mailing list) for the human impact. I am not sure if Diophantine equations (discussed at length here) can do this, but, who am I to say? I keep an eye, occasionally for this reason, on QC, AI, and other developments that can accelerate the tools the species has, at hand to survive.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Sep 28, 2019 1:06 pm Subject: Quantum Supremacy. Here is a copy of that leaked paper: Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor I found these quotes from it to be particularly interesting: "We show that quantum speedup is achievable in a real-world system and is not precluded by any hidden physical laws." "Our processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of the quantum circuit 1 million times, a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task." "Quantum processors based on superconducting qubits can now perform computations in a Hilbert space of dimension 2^53 ≈ 9 × 10^15, beyond the reach of the fastest classical supercomputers available today. To our knowledge, this experiment marks the first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor." "Quantum processors have thus reached the regime of quantum supremacy. We expect their computational power will continue to grow at a double exponential rate" For me the most stunning thing about the entire article is the 3 words "double exponential rate" 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1cLygnnixVMK%2BEv0E%2B%2BcXngB7fPeNmGn0c79zfUB7o2Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1610328655.622799.1569696286088%40mail.yahoo.com.
