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I am in no way in my element with quantum computing. I'm trying to dip my toes in as an amateur. I still often get a little turned around in the [what appear t

I am in no way in my element with quantum computing. I'm trying to dip my toes in as an amateur. I still often get a little turned around in the [what appear to be] subtle differences between Qubit operations and ternary operations. At a naive level, they appear to be the same—three possible states: 1, 0, indeterminate. This however isn't quite true. I hope somebody who's better educated can weigh in, but it seems that a Qubit is actually flat to the user in that the user can only ever see one of two visible states at the point of observation, where with ternary operations the user can actually see one of three differing states. I'm not yet familiar with the DWave platform, but it certainly appears as if that would be a good thing to know in the coming years...

ianai 9y ago
From my understanding, they define a state of the Hopfield nodes akin to some external model’s state at some point. Then the neural net “anneals” to its naturally lowest energy state. That state is then read as output of the computer. This is my very naive understanding, of course.
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  Okay, I had to do a bit of reading to even start to understand what you were talking about/referring to, but it sounds like you're on the right track—though I didn't get to any point in my reading where they specified the network type explicitly. Also: It sounds like the 2000Q is designed to offer API capability, but it doesn't sound like anybody runs one: https://www.dwavesys.com/software https://www.dwavesys.com/software But for now IBM and Rigetti do: http://www.davidykay.com/Cloud-Quantum-Computing-Heats-Up-as-Rigetti-Launches-API/ http://www.davidykay.com/Cloud-Quantum-Computing-Heats-Up-as... D-wave does have software available for developing on a normal machine that can also run on their systems, but I'm finding Q# a more familiar interface for an introduction. https://github.com/dwavesystems/qbsolv https://github.com/dwavesystems/qbsolv

ianai 9y ago

From my understanding, they define a state of the Hopfield nodes akin to some external model’s state at some point. Then the neural net “anneals” to its naturally lowest energy state. That state is then read as output of the computer. This is my very naive understanding, of course.

52-6F-62 9y ago
Okay, I had to do a bit of reading to even start to understand what you were talking about/referring to, but it sounds like you're on the right track—though I didn't get to any point in my reading where they specified the network type explicitly. Also: It sounds like the 2000Q is designed to offer API capability, but it doesn't sound like anybody runs one: https://www.dwavesys.com/software https://www.dwavesys.com/software But for now IBM and Rigetti do: http://www.davidykay.com/Cloud-Quantum-Computing-Heats-Up-as-Rigetti-Launches-API/ http://www.davidykay.com/Cloud-Quantum-Computing-Heats-Up-as... D-wave does have software available for developing on a normal machine that can also run on their systems, but I'm finding Q# a more familiar interface for an introduction. https://github.com/dwavesystems/qbsolv https://github.com/dwavesystems/qbsolv