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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
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#12Can someone explain if this is still the RCS problem or a similar one?
My impression was that every problem a quantum computer solves in practice right now is basically reducible from 'simulate a quantum computer'
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#13Definitely not a quantum expert, but I have a feeling that news like this have been happening for more than a decade, without anything usable.
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#14As with any quantum computing news, I will wait for Scott Aaronson to tell me what to think about this.
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#15the big problem with quantum advantage is that quantum computing is inherently error-prone and stochastic, but then they compare to classical methods that are exact
let a classical computer use an error prone stochastic method and it still blows the doors off of qc
this is a false comparison
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#17We're all asking it: any impact on AES?
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#18And the quantum snake oil train keeps on going
It’s actually two trains going in opposite directions. But the quantum snake oil is always in the other train.
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#20> Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like polymers, battery components or even the materials that comprise our quantum bits (qubits)
There is a section in the article about future real world application, but I feel like these articles about quantum "breakthroughs" are almost always deliberately packed with abstruse language. As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?