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Re:Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing c... by dr_dshiv on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:15AM (#23927000)
I'm not necessarily asking for better metaphors of quantum phenomena. But the opportunities or affordances of quantum computers is extremely unclear, even to experts. It's like explaining the physics of a transistor to someone and waiting for them to come up with an app design.

Taking the analogy of a GPU, how would you describe what a quantum coprocessor could do for a specialist (in, say, neuroscience or material science)? What kind of datasets would be appropriate? How should they think about what can be done with quantum processing? That's where I think there is room for metaphor development.

Re:Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing c... by ahelwer on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:58AM (#23949203)
The short answer is that all of this info is out there, but it doesn't live in pop science articles.

For materials scientists the value proposition is clear: quantum computers will enable efficient quantum chemistry simulations. Here is an overview paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10402