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Re:Is Quantum Computing taking off? by jairuhme on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:20AM (#36736460)
I sat in on a seminar with the Cleveland Clinic and IBM as they have a partnership around quantum, and one of the big problems they were working on was using it to speed up drug discovery. I don't recall if they have solved problems completely yet, but it has sped up the discovery process by orders of magnitude.
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Re:Is Quantum Computing taking off? by mechagodzilla on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:27AM (#36736544)
Nothing involving quantum computing has sped up the 'drug discovery' process by orders of magnitude. At best it has 'accelerated' some toy QM problem that is likely a dozen steps removed from anything you could call drug discovery. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I've yet to see any non-trivial computational chemistry work done on quantum computers.
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