Turn down the quantum volume

Re:Turn down the quantum volume by kaiabwpdjqn on Friday March 06, 2020 @01:38PM (#22506052)

I guess. But we already optimize these things. Without any specific domain in mind, I wonder how much better we could get. Like maybe amazon could find the global minimum cost to route, but right now it’s getting pretty darn close.

Or maybe that’s entirely naive and the potential for finding faster solutions to real time problems is huge

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Re:Turn down the quantum volume by dekhn on Friday March 06, 2020 @01:47PM (#22506132)

it is huge. that's the only reason people are motivated to implement QC- because in principle then we can break crypto, do QM much faster, solve intractable problems, etc.

Day-to-day, we're not really blocked on QC to get important work done.

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Re:Turn down the quantum volume by kaiabwpdjqn on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:32PM (#22526731)

Ok but what I’m looking for is an actual example of an intractable problem.

Breaking crypto is one, I guess, but it’s also one that makes everything worse, so I don’t take that as a useful outcome.

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