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Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017
- anotheryou 10y agomaybe I'll wait another year before I push my backups in to the cloud... I wonder when we will know just how huseful they will be.
- bear_child 10y agoRegardless of how we end up building quantum computers, they will be useful. The theory behind computing with qbits is well established and many interesting quantum algorithms have already been developed. Even a 32 qbit computer would be a very serious breakthrough. edit: by a 32 qbit computer, I mean that the device should have 32 qbits of memory in total! I'm not talking about bus size. That is one of the cool things about quantum computing. You don't need a big device to do interesting computations.
- mywittyname 10y agoWhat's the best resource for learning about QC and establishing foundation knowledge so that I might be ready to break into this field once they have broad availability?
- bear_child 10y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-Anniversary/dp/1107002176 https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-... is the standard reference. It is well written and light if you have the math background (linear algebra + probability theory)