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can anyone ELI5 what's the impact of this research?

vtomole 8y ago
Quantum computers are difficult to scale because of noise. Applying a quantum gate to a qubit using teleportation is a protocol for performing fault-tolerant quantum computation.
- hellweaver666 8y ago
  I don't know what 5 year olds you hang out with, but I think this would have gone over their heads ;)
  - scandox 8y ago
    On Hacker News everybody's five year old kids: 1. Configure and run their own Minecraft Server 2. Are fully proficient with the linux commandline 3. Are skilled in basic safe cracking techniques such as auto-dialling, weak point drilling, scoping and the use of brute force methodologies including the use of thermal lances (having acquired relevant Health and Safety accreditations).
    - jacquesm 8y ago
      And besides that they are on their third startup, have a blog, will debate the finer points of faking it until you make it with gusto, and are proficient in LISP, Rust and Elixir.
      - rikkus 8y ago
        And will explain monads to their parents
        jacobush 8y ago
        Which is why we got them in the first place! Failure to contain I mean.
        jhabdas 8y ago
        So did any of these five year olds notice this sentence? > Using a theoretical protocol developed in the 1990s, Yale researchers experimentally demonstrated a quantum operation, or “gate,” without relying on any direct interaction. They're basically saying it's magic. But no 5 year olds I hang out with are any good at magic yet.
        vtomole 8y ago
        Quantum teleportation is the transmission of a quantum state using an entangled pair and two classical bits. No magic needed.
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kowdermeister 8y ago
It's a huge step for building the next generation of computers. Imagine you want to listen to your favorite music in a very busy street with lots of cars and people without headphones. Not very enjoyable. These guys figured out a way to suppress all noise with a special headphone. They move the information from your phone directly to your ears. That's obvious for you I suppose, but it was really hard to do that on vert very small scales these computers operate on.

Quantum computers are difficult to scale because of noise. Applying a quantum gate to a qubit using teleportation is a protocol for performing fault-tolerant quantum computation.

hellweaver666 8y ago
I don't know what 5 year olds you hang out with, but I think this would have gone over their heads ;)
- scandox 8y ago
  On Hacker News everybody's five year old kids: 1. Configure and run their own Minecraft Server 2. Are fully proficient with the linux commandline 3. Are skilled in basic safe cracking techniques such as auto-dialling, weak point drilling, scoping and the use of brute force methodologies including the use of thermal lances (having acquired relevant Health and Safety accreditations).
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    And besides that they are on their third startup, have a blog, will debate the finer points of faking it until you make it with gusto, and are proficient in LISP, Rust and Elixir.
    - rikkus 8y ago
      And will explain monads to their parents
      - jacobush 8y ago
        Which is why we got them in the first place! Failure to contain I mean.
        jhabdas 8y ago
        So did any of these five year olds notice this sentence? > Using a theoretical protocol developed in the 1990s, Yale researchers experimentally demonstrated a quantum operation, or “gate,” without relying on any direct interaction. They're basically saying it's magic. But no 5 year olds I hang out with are any good at magic yet.
        vtomole 8y ago
        Quantum teleportation is the transmission of a quantum state using an entangled pair and two classical bits. No magic needed.
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kowdermeister 8y ago

It's a huge step for building the next generation of computers. Imagine you want to listen to your favorite music in a very busy street with lots of cars and people without headphones. Not very enjoyable. These guys figured out a way to suppress all noise with a special headphone. They move the information from your phone directly to your ears. That's obvious for you I suppose, but it was really hard to do that on vert very small scales these computers operate on.