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Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services

24 points by kiyanwang 6y ago

WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
Is it AWS new product season again?
- divbzero 6y ago
  I think it was announced several months ago [1] and reached general availability just last week [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684668 [2]: https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/13/amazon-launches-braket-quantum-computing-service-in-general-availability/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/13/amazon-launches-braket-qu...
  - archgoon 6y ago
    Preview was last December https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-braket/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introduci...
- arkanciscan 6y ago
  AKA Wednesday
arkanciscan 6y ago
So now the only thing stopping me from programming a quantum computer is thinking of any damned thing to do with it. Innovative new ways to feel ineffectual!
- donw 6y ago
  But at least you can also feel totally effective at the same time!
- james_s_tayler 6y ago
  What about a SaaS to help global e-commerce businesses deal with the US Tax system?
- gremlinsinc 6y ago
  If I had a clue, and was an expert in Math, I'd use it to break Bitcoin. Get in, grab 10k bitcoins, get out. I'm not greedy, lol.
donw 6y ago
I think there's a lot of interesting optimization problems that this could lend weight to. There's a lot of small-ish manufacturers out there pushing the limits of materials science, where being able to leverage quantum computing could be a real advantage. That said, I'm also curious what this means for attacks against cryptosystems -- something tells me that anything that wasn't secure against various quantum attacks either is, or will shortly be, blown wide open.
- reikonomusha 6y ago
  Quantum computers do not currently solve any problems of the size or accuracy of interest to any commercial industry that classical computers don’t solve better and faster.
- tempsolution 6y ago
  We are years away from any of that. This is a simulator first and foremost, with some basic option to run it on a primitive quantum computer for real. In any case, there are still massive practical hurdles that need to be overcome to make quantum computing useful for any real world scenario. Breaking cryptography will require up to tens of thousands of QBits. What would the use case be for material science?
Exuma 6y ago
The video was hilarious.
onion2k 6y ago
It's fascinating how we've come full circle in computing and we're back to booking compute time and putting jobs in a queue to run on a big shared machine again. My Dad used to tell me about how he'd have to wait to run things on the DEC machines where he worked in '70s, wait for the output to print out, and debug his code by hand before he could run it again. No doubt writing software to run on Amazon Braket would be a pretty similar process if it weren't for the simulators.
ramblerman 6y ago
Someone have a good reference or primer on quantum computing? I thought it just mean faster hardware, but they talk about specifically designing quantum algorithms.
- reikonomusha 6y ago
  Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen. Prepare your linear algebra skills over complex numbers.
- dthul 6y ago
  In Quantum computers, bits (called qubits) can be in a superposition, not just binary 0 or 1. IBM has a nice introduction: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/docs/iqx/guide/ https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/docs/iqx/guide/

24 points by kiyanwang 6y ago

WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago

Is it AWS new product season again?

divbzero 6y ago
I think it was announced several months ago [1] and reached general availability just last week [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684668 [2]: https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/13/amazon-launches-braket-quantum-computing-service-in-general-availability/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/13/amazon-launches-braket-qu...
- archgoon 6y ago
  Preview was last December https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-braket/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introduci...
arkanciscan 6y ago
AKA Wednesday

arkanciscan 6y ago

So now the only thing stopping me from programming a quantum computer is thinking of any damned thing to do with it. Innovative new ways to feel ineffectual!

donw 6y ago
But at least you can also feel totally effective at the same time!
james_s_tayler 6y ago
What about a SaaS to help global e-commerce businesses deal with the US Tax system?
gremlinsinc 6y ago
If I had a clue, and was an expert in Math, I'd use it to break Bitcoin. Get in, grab 10k bitcoins, get out. I'm not greedy, lol.

donw 6y ago

I think there's a lot of interesting optimization problems that this could lend weight to. There's a lot of small-ish manufacturers out there pushing the limits of materials science, where being able to leverage quantum computing could be a real advantage. That said, I'm also curious what this means for attacks against cryptosystems -- something tells me that anything that wasn't secure against various quantum attacks either is, or will shortly be, blown wide open.

reikonomusha 6y ago
Quantum computers do not currently solve any problems of the size or accuracy of interest to any commercial industry that classical computers don’t solve better and faster.
tempsolution 6y ago
We are years away from any of that. This is a simulator first and foremost, with some basic option to run it on a primitive quantum computer for real. In any case, there are still massive practical hurdles that need to be overcome to make quantum computing useful for any real world scenario. Breaking cryptography will require up to tens of thousands of QBits. What would the use case be for material science?

Exuma 6y ago

The video was hilarious.

onion2k 6y ago

It's fascinating how we've come full circle in computing and we're back to booking compute time and putting jobs in a queue to run on a big shared machine again. My Dad used to tell me about how he'd have to wait to run things on the DEC machines where he worked in '70s, wait for the output to print out, and debug his code by hand before he could run it again. No doubt writing software to run on Amazon Braket would be a pretty similar process if it weren't for the simulators.

ramblerman 6y ago

Someone have a good reference or primer on quantum computing? I thought it just mean faster hardware, but they talk about specifically designing quantum algorithms.

reikonomusha 6y ago
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen. Prepare your linear algebra skills over complex numbers.
dthul 6y ago
In Quantum computers, bits (called qubits) can be in a superposition, not just binary 0 or 1. IBM has a nice introduction: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/docs/iqx/guide/ https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/docs/iqx/guide/