I feel the same way. But my brief thrashing in this rabbit hole was interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography In particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Quantum_computing_attacks I only mention that because it seems to imply a real impact on everyday yahoos. I do think there are domain-specific applications, particularly optimization and search. But others will have more direct answers. On 7/8/20 7:22 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Roger, I've become rather suspicious of the field of quantum computing for > much the same reasons. Surely *someone* can write an easily understood basic > explanation of how it is supposed to work in principle. Maybe I just haven't > dug deep enough, but everything seems to be either too hand-wavy, too focused > on how that's going to make Google or Microsoft or whoever even more uber > rich, or dismissive of the possibility that the general computing community > could understand it. I would be willing to suspend disbelief long enough to > take it as a given that a qbit could take on two states at the same time, but > then I'd like to see how this fact can be put to practical use *at an > algorithmic level* to solve some problem. -- ☣ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
