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Researchers have written quantum code on a silicon chip for the first time
Science alert ^ | 11/17/15 | FIONA MACDONALD

Posted on 11/17/2015 6:53:19 PM PST by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 11/17/2015 6:53:19 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

and it will say “hello world”


2 posted on 11/17/2015 6:56:23 PM PST by bigbob
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To: LibWhacker

They’ve been chattering about quantum computing for as long as I’ve been in the business. And I got started in the days when computers were steam powered.


3 posted on 11/17/2015 6:59:19 PM PST by IronJack
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bfl


4 posted on 11/17/2015 7:04:27 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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5 posted on 11/17/2015 7:05:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: LibWhacker
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6 posted on 11/17/2015 7:22:08 PM PST by TomServo
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To: LibWhacker

Bull puckey.


7 posted on 11/17/2015 7:32:34 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: LibWhacker

This appears to be a big find. I don’t pretend to understand it. What does this mean in the real world? Faster smaller computers that can do things from ...far away...that’s never been done before?


8 posted on 11/17/2015 7:54:55 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Linda Frances
What does this mean in the real world?

Faster downloads of porn.

9 posted on 11/17/2015 8:17:18 PM PST by roadcat
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To: LibWhacker

Good to see the autistic monkey geniuses are fantically and blindly toiling to construct mankind’s ultimate nightmare..

How many more years will it take guys?


10 posted on 11/17/2015 8:20:45 PM PST by Helvan
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To: IronJack
They’ve been chattering about quantum computing for as long as I’ve been in the business. And I got started in the days when computers were steam powered.

Did you meet Ada Lovelace (world's first computer programmer, 1815-1852)? There's some old folks on FR!

Anyway, in my early days of machine programming I got to handle some computer cores. The real stuff, toroid donut cores with wires going through them (and why memory cores are called that). A couple wires carrying current would be sensed by a sensor wire to indicate a zero (0) or a one (1) state, basis of binary computing. The zero-state wasn't actually zero, just a voltage level different than a one-state. I often pondered the difficulty of different states other than zero or one by varying the voltage, and how difficult it would be to program quantum computing other than binary. Probably would lead to a lot of programmers committing suicide. Anyway, as toroid cores gave way to binary storage using other means, I stopped pondering quantum computing.

11 posted on 11/17/2015 8:28:31 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Linda Frances

Unbreakable encryption, maybe. Messages incapable of being tapped. And that’s just the security angle.


12 posted on 11/17/2015 8:30:52 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: Helvan

What are you afraid of?


13 posted on 11/17/2015 8:31:57 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: TomServo

Brilliant mockery.


14 posted on 11/17/2015 8:39:36 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: sparklite2
What are you afraid of?

All your base are belong to us.
15 posted on 11/17/2015 8:48:45 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: sparklite2

You have no chance to survive make your time.


16 posted on 11/17/2015 8:49:04 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: LibWhacker

Well, my password is the last 8 digits of Pi. ;-)


17 posted on 11/17/2015 8:50:25 PM PST by r_barton
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To: roadcat
I've ‘oft wondered why trinary (-1,0,+1) never caught on. Or for that matter, base 20 instead of base 2 (see Mayan math). An eight bit word using three symbols is 25,600,000,000 units compared to 256 in base 2.
18 posted on 11/17/2015 9:22:40 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies)
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To: LibWhacker

Wonderful breakthrough, since all states of bits can be anything, the data means nothing.

Horsepucky for grants...


19 posted on 11/17/2015 9:25:41 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: roadcat
Faster downloads of porn.

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