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How about the more practical question: does it solve any classes of problems faster than an equivalently priced classic computer? What are these problems? ...i
by nnq 13y ago
How about the more practical question: does it solve any classes of problems faster than an equivalently priced classic computer? What are these problems?
...if they don't come up with answers to this questions that are easy for business persons to understand, then we can only think that they are playing "fake it 'till we make it" on US gov's money. And if, god forbid, they don't make it, we'll be in for a "quantum computing winter(s)" just like we had the "AI winter(s)" because of smart assholes that played a similar game... and boy we have a lot to "thank" them for!
- OvidNaso 13y agoIf the D-Wave is actually using quantum annealing for it's algorithms, how is it playing "fake it till we make it" simply by not having optimized its output to be currently faster than classical systems? I think it's pretty easy to see how the government and private institutions that are purchasing D-Wave Two's (universities and research divisions) see them as potentially great tools separate from their processing output. Business people are a separate entity and I would be surprised, and doubtful of their acumen, if any were actually purchasing any. If they turn out to be quantum in origin, I think you are way off base in this prediction.
- mitmatt 13y agoIt's not able to do full quantum annealing; it's only able to use stoquastic Hamiltonians on a fixed topology. Even if truly quantum effects were present (which is unclear at the moment, see Smolin and Smith arxiv posts), it's not known to be a useful quantum computing model. So it's not just an issue of "optimizing output".