Re:What are we going to do with quantum computers?
by Myrmornis on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:19PM
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Serious question: Why would it? Isn’t “Moore’s Law” just an empirical observation about late 20th century technology that is trotted out in front of undergraduates, confusing them about what a “law” even is? There’s not a theoretical reason to expect it to apply to any other information systems is it?
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Re:What are we going to do with quantum computers?
by addicted on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:02PM
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Moore’s law confuses the hell out of me as a kid. It went against everything I understood about what a law meant, and it made an 8-9 year old me think that there was some mystical physical forces that essentially required processing speed to increase.
I couldn’t understand how that worked and for the longest time thought either I was really stupid, or the whole world had lost its mind promoting something that obviously could not be true.
It took a couple of years for me to realize that it simply wasn’t a “law” in the first place and to recognize differences in academic speak and popular media.
Re:What are we going to do with quantum computers?
by tlrobinson on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:39AM
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If I had left out the phrase "Moore's Law-like" would the question have been less controversial?
It's not that uncommon for new technologies to experience exponential improvement for some period of time. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable question to ask.