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> ... quantum computers are really early in their development and can't do the more complicated things yet. It's like if we had calculators that took an hour to
by laxd 3y ago
> ... quantum computers are really early in their development and can't do the more complicated things yet. It's like if we had calculators that took an hour to do each arithmetic operation ...
Reminds me of the story George Stibitz tells after developing one of the first devices that could be called a computer. Management at Bell Labs was not impressed that he had built a "20000 dollar calculator".
https://youtu.be/qundvme1Tik?t=259 https://youtu.be/qundvme1Tik?t=259
- hcks 3y agoWell a “20000 dollar calculator” is something QC can only dream of