On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:40 AM, <Mark Lawrence> wrote: > Are you saying that it can't do list comprehensions, recursive functions > and floating point arithmetic correctly? >
My understanding is that the answer here is essentially yes: that quantum computing requires a different approach to the problem, and can be shockingly powerful in some kind of flexible pattern-matching kind of stuff: for example, they talk about "training" one to do image classification. I think they are not programmed in a similar way at all. As long as we're OT on interesting alternative computing, Jeff Hawkins has some AMAZING things going on: read his book "On Intelligence", read papers published online, and/or watch some of the Youtube vids (I think they actually might have the most recent info): again, it's a deeply different way of thinking about computing (analogous perhaps to functional vs. OOP), as near as I can tell, though in this case I think perhaps you could do it in Python... just not efficiently. I think with the quantum stuff you actually can't do the same thing on a binary computer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_eT5bsS4bQ -- Keith
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