3 Golden Nuggets a day - on Quantum Computers
where can I buy a quantum computer ?
Please leave some links in the comments below, I only found this: https://www.dwavesys.com/home , but it's not really of great help to me.
- Classic Read
Resource:
My one golden nugget:
Every new discovery comes with opportunity and costs.
Quatum cryptography put side by side with current cryptography .
The use of qubits is a tad controversial so far, while the infrastructure is at an incipient phase for quatum computers.
- How To's:
Resource:
http://juliaquantum.github.io/projects/
My one golden nugget:
I have only just discovered these amazing projects, would be really helpful to have a quantum computer close by in order to use them.
- Biography:
Resource:
My one golden nugget:
where there is need for a change there can always be alternative solutions; quantum computer operations are in need of a paradigm shift at the programming level in order to be usable, whilst looking at them as the next step away from silicon, molecular computers are one alternative
Optional Bonus:
understanding the quantum gravity phenomenon will lead to a new age of technology. Quantum entanglement theory. Vertexes are the most basic element of the universe.
Reading Lists
There are books that I reread regularly, but at the moment I read new books in trying to identify the best books to reread while trying to push my learning boundries. So far I got to organise my future reading in 6 lists, main readings for each time of the day:
- morning: classics (my definition of classics, must say)
- lunch break: how to's (programming or managerial mostly)
- evening: biographies
and 3 lists of books that look interesting but haven't got enough information for them:
For people who just wanted to know how to choose what to read by Tai Lopez' talked of principles.
Do you have a book or resource that would like to see what nuggets I can get out from for you ?
Until recently, it seemed like Google was leading the pack when it came to creating a quantum computer that could surpass the abilities of conventional computers. In a Nature article published in March 2017, the search giant set out ambitious plans to commercialise quantum technology in the next five years. Shortly after that, Google said it intended to achieve something it’s calling ‘quantum supremacy’ with a 49-qubit computer by the end of 2017.
Now, quantum supremacy, which roughly refers to the point where a quantum computer can crunch sums that a conventional computer couldn’t hope to simulate, isn’t exactly a widely accepted term within the quantum community. Those sceptical of Google’s quantum project – or at least the way it talks about quantum computing – argue that supremacy is essentially an arbitrary goal set by Google to make it look like it’s making strides in quantum when really it’s just meeting self-imposed targets.
Whether it’s an arbitrary goal or not, Google was pipped to the supremacy post by IBM in November 2017, when the company announced it had built a 50-qubit quantum computer. Even that, however, was far from stable, as the system could only hold its quantum microstate for 90 microseconds, a record, but far from the times needed to make quantum computing practically viable. Just because IBM has built a 50-qubit system, however, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve cracked supremacy and definitely doesn’t mean that they’ve created a quantum computer that is anywhere near ready for practical use.
Where IBM has gone further than Google, however, is making quantum computers commercially available. Since 2016, it has offered researchers the chance to run experiments on a five-qubit quantum computer via the cloud and at the end of 2017 started making its 20-qubit system available online too.
But quantum computing is by no means a two-horse race. Californian startup Rigetti is focusing on the stability of its own systems rather than just the number of qubits and it could be the first to build a quantum computer that people can actually use. D-Wave, a company based in Vancouver, Canada, has already created what it is calling a 2,000-qubit system although many researchers don’t consider the D-wave systems to be true quantum computers. Intel, too, has skin in the game. In February 2018 the company announced that it had found a way of fabricating quantum chips from silicon, which would make it much easier to produce chips using existing manufacturing methods.
Very cool, I'm kinda hoping quantum computers still have many years away since most cryptocurrencies today are vulnerable to them.
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