What if we are just a simulation running on someone's desk somewhere?
Posted on 02/10/2014 7:37:20 PM PST by equalator
“[The company D-Wave] makes a new type of computer called a quantum computer that’s so radical and strange, people are still trying to figure out what it’s for and how to use it…. The supercooled niobium chip at the heart of the D-Wave Two has 512 qubits and therefore could in theory perform 2^512 operations simultaneously. That’s more calculations than there are atoms in the universe, by many orders of magnitude…. Naturally, a lot of people want one. This is the age of Big Data, and we’re burying ourselves in information—search queries, genomes, credit-card purchases, phone records, retail transactions, social media, geological surveys, climate data, surveillance videos, movie recommendations—and D-Wave just happens to be selling
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With a math co-processor for good measure!
well you will need a really hot cup of tea for the Infinite Improbability Drive
This will be WAY, WAY, WAY (1000X more) outta MY league! A man gal has GOT TO know her limitations. Clint Eastwood, sort of.
A cuppa would be nice, but what do you mean “Infinite Improbability Drive”? Why so negative?
No, no, that should read as an error code:
“Quantum process overrun — Cat died”
Reset Universe?(Y)es, (N)o, (U)ncertain
Ensure Universe is Backed Up.
Can we know get the answer for 1 divided by 0 now?
42. My wife doesn’t get it. She’s not the nerd I am. The problem is that people ask computers the wrong questions. Garbage in, garbage out. So if you ask a profound question and get the response 42, that’s your problem to understand it. Maybe they should ask this new computer, how does Obamacare work? We’ll probably need a more powerful computer.
What if we are just a simulation running on someone's desk somewhere?
For some reason I’m thinking about John Varley’s story “Press Enter”.
2^256 is such a miniscule fraction of 2^512 that it wouldn't even show up as one pixel on the display monitor.
Thanks equalator.
If you meant to imply that half of the operations woudl be SVCHOST, then you should have said “2^511 of them will be SVCHOST”
As a percentage of 2^512, 2^256 is a very tine percent and probably sustainable error.
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