Personally I find quantum computers really impressive, and they havent been given its righteous hype.

I know they won’t be something everyone has in their house but it will greatly improve some services.

  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Good points, I’m reevaluating my perspective on quantum computing.

    From the article you posted, it says that “certain chemistry, quantum materials, and materials science applications” are suitable for quantum computing but that “accelerating incompressible computational fluid dynamics” aren’t suitable with current understanding of how the algorithms could work.

    My takeaway as someone with a couple years of CS education from years ago is that the qcomputers are good at gradient descent/simulated annealing or something like that but that advantage disappears with more complex problems. Also that we’ll need a few more orders of magnitude qubits to make the output “interesting.” Still though, helpful to see that something worthwhile is stirring under all that research , I appreciate the insight!

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      2 months ago

      for sure, every time I hear about a new article about quantum computers I think back to the last article detailing the next level quantum computing had been taken, which we’re mostly hardware benchmarks and not testing, now darpa is testing more than half a dozen limited-functioning quantum computers I’m all sorts of fields.

      now i’m waiting for the next development.