IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor

Post by mcpherrinm » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:51 PM UTC

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Cray supercomputers were also aesthetically beautiful machines: https://cdn.britannica.com/11/23611-050-81E61C8A/Cray-1-supe... So happy to be able to find a picture of the wirewrap inside: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e2/d2/47/e2d2...

To this day, whenever I hear the term "supercomputer", I can only visualize the Cray. I don't want to know what the latest supercomputer looks like, because I suspect it's just another boring bunch of rack aisles. Maybe with a snazzy color end-cap or blue LEDs on the doors. Bring back the impractical, space-eating circular design! I don't care about space efficiency. It's supposed to look cool.

Post by krastanov » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

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If you added one word of qualification – practical quantum computer or quantum processor – this would actually be a reasonable position to argue.

No, I mean in the real sense, there is no actual quantum processor anywhere in the world (unless some secret organization actually built something amazing and is hiding it). Not a single quantum logical gate exists that actually behaves as described in the theory, let alone circuits of quantum gates that do even the most basic of computation. Actually, I'll take that one step further and say that no one has produced…

Post by walleeee » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

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Can you elaborate on “photonic override”? Googling that phrase pretty much just returns more HN comments and tweets by you :)

A hardware/software proxy that governs all photons you see.

Post by onlyrealcuzzo » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 11:05 PM UTC

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Quantum Computers sitting in their cryogenic chambers are such works of art, stacks of giant brass plates and hundreds of heat pipes (or coolant pipes? liquid helium I suppose) twisted and coiling throughout the structure hanging like some steampunk chandelier (why do they hang from above anyway?) EDIT: changed to a few direct links to pics: [0][1][2] The esoteric design reminds me of the Connection Machine blog post…

Post by GezaElemerQ » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 11:14 PM UTC

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3D TVs will come of age once autostereoscopic displays reach the right level of quality. After being blown away by my first glimpse of a display in around 1998 I fully expected them to be useable years ago. I guess we might still be another "10 years" away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy

I really doubt that there's going to be huge desire for 3D TVs at any point. People can already look at video on a 2D display and interpret 3D visuals from it. And if you want to be fully immersed in something, maybe you want VR instead.