Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ yttrx ] on Saturday 03 March 2007 04:27 \__
>
>> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>>
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=BD4EFAA8-E7F2-99DF-372B272D3E271363&pageNumber=1&catID=1
>>>>
>>>> A Canadian firm today unveiled what it called "the world's first
>>>> commercially viable quantum computer." D-Wave Systems, Inc., "The
>>>> Quantum Computing Company," during a much ballyhooed rollout at the
>>>> Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., hailed the new
>>>> device as a big step toward the age of quantum computing, decades
>>>> earlier than scheduled.
>>>
>>> And it solved Sudoku? A first year CS project. Wow.
>>
>> It's actually pretty impressive, if it's actually a "quantum logic"
>> processor.
>>
>> There's some question about its eventual computing power, but in
>> layman's terms, think of it along the lines of a regular processor's
>> logic (boolean, implemented by logic gates which themselves are
>> comprised, one way or another, of circuits that can be said to be
>> in one of two states, 1 or 0) being computationally equivalent to
>> an abacus (each bead having two possible states)...while a quantum
>> processor's logic introduces at least one more possible state,
>> submerging it in weird ideas like entanglement and superposition.
>>
>> In a quantum processor, the contents of its registers (or qubit
>> registers) are an 8 dimensional complex vector. Because of this,
>> (again, layman's terms--this isn't *exactly* true), it's possible
>> to pack a lot more processing potency into a single processing
>> cycle. This in turn makes certain types of processing that take
>> an exceedingly long time now (protein folding, cryptanalysis)
>> possible in a very, very short period of time, using a small
>> fraction of the energy and physical space of common boolean type
>> processors.
>>
>> Is solving a soduku puzzle amazing? No. But if it's the case
>> that it's been solved with a qbit-based processor, that's a
>> very, very big deal. We may be seeing the future of all computing
>> on this one, in very much the same way the people who sung the
>> praises of the transistor did, when it was first seen to be a
>> viable replacement for vacuum tubes in 1947.
>>
>> So nay say all you like, but do keep up with it. Some pretty
>> important things are on the horizon.
>
> Hadron already knows all of this. His headers once indicated that he works
> for CERN. Of course, he was lying, which is something that happens to
> address Jamie Hart's recent argument with him.
The one where he was completely wrong about WINE?
Roy, you're full of it. You are an arrogant, obnoxious spammer with an
anti-ms agenda. No one, but no one, believes a word you post.
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