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Comment Re:Estimates based on conjecture (Score 1) 172

Your assertion that this information is actionable is totally unsupported by any evidence.

Only by any evidence you have seen. Which seems to be none at all, as you so conveniently state. And that is because you have not looked. Really, all you are doing is showing how incapable you are.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 34

What stupid-ass summary is that? What you should not do is predict a technology will be useful "soon" when all the evidence says otherwise. For QCs, if they scale linearly (they likely do much worse), they will be a problem for current encryption around the year 4000 or so. There is nothing wrong with running Physics experiments. But you need to see them as what they are.

Comment Re:quantum mysticism (Score 1) 34

Was it 21? I thought 35. I may be wrong though.

No, they have not. Some people did a larger, fake on a Quantum Annealer (which is not a QC and the computation is unable to scale), but for a real QC is 21 or 35 and that is with a custom algo (i.e. essentially a fake), not Shor's. After 50 years of research. Calling these "computing" is ludicrous. These are Physics experiments, not more.

Comment No (Score 1) 34

They are just trying to make the dead horse look alive. Somewhat alive. There have been tons of similar lies for the last 50 years, this is just one more.

The whole thing is nonsense at current tech levels. The actual factorization record for QCs is 35 (that is 6 bit), and not with Shor's algorithm, but a custom one that can only factor 35, because it needs less resources and a shorter computation. That is not even remotely on the level of a slow 4 bit CPU from 50 years ago. After basically 50 years of research.

There is not going to be a useful QC this century and maybe never. These things are Physics experiments, not computing devices.

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