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Re:Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics ... by battery_cowboy on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:56PM (#22491089)
From what I gathered so far, this is more of a theoretical win for mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists because it basically proved that if you had two Q-computers with unbounded (read: greater than infinite, basically) power, they could convince a classical computer in poly time that they could run a Q-program to completion correctly, in infinite time.

So basically, we would still need a way to build an unboundedly-powerful pair of Q-computers that were entangled (whoops, forgot that part!) in order to get any direct application for this, then we'd have to actually write the software to run this series of communications the 3 computers exchange from the paper.

So, this is only useful for some unknown, future proof of something else, not to engineer a real-life system with.

Re:Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics ... by 91aintprime on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:27AM (#22545182)
Hilbert's curve: Is infinite math useful? by 3blue1brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7h2MHQtxc

or skip directly to the conclusion;

https://youtu.be/3s7h2MHQtxc?t=978

Re:Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics ... by thehappypm on Friday March 06, 2020 @11:12AM (#22504704)
Maxwell thought his E&M research was useless.
Re:Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics ... by dhimes on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:11AM (#22493602)
Guess I better cancel that order from Jameco then. Rats.