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So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.
It's not about where the technology currently is, but where it is going.
When I first heard of D-Wave I thought for sure they were some kind of scam outfit. I am impressed..
> 10,000 measurements using an 81 qubit version of the experiment gave the correct answer just 13 times > It’s also worth pointing that conventional computers could already solve these particular protein folding problems So if one cannot already solve the problem is one capable of checking that the answer is correct with such a low probability of correctness?
So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.
So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.
I read this article and imagined computing in the first half of the 20th century. Undoubtedly when some programmer first managed to get his room sized computer to add, subtract and multiply someone was present to scoff about how he could already do such things on his slide rule. It's not about where the technology currently is, but where it is going.
They certainly have some exceptional people (e.g., the "director of business development" mentioned in the post was a research assistant for Hawking (yes, that Hawking), and wrote one of the very first books on quantum computation). And, they're doing good work. It's just hard to tell how long the road is.
So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.
I read this article and imagined computing in the first half of the 20th century. Undoubtedly when some programmer first managed to get his room sized computer to add, subtract and multiply someone was present to scoff about how he could already do such things on his slide rule. It's not about where the technology currently is, but where it is going.
When I first heard of D-Wave I thought for sure they were some kind of scam outfit. I am impressed..