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Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
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#22What do they mean by >can create an entirely new state of matter – not a solid, liquid or gas but a topological state
through geometry and configuration of materials, you can create quantum effects on a macroscopic scale
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#23Re: Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.
This isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really…
> It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties
Maybe, one day, or never.
In the mean time, it will generate a lot of hot and humid hype.
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#25I need HN's classic pessimism to know if this is something to be excited about. Please chime in!
I work in the field. While all players are selling a dream right now, this announcement is even more farcical. Majoranas are still trying to get to the point where they have even one qubit that could be said to exist and whose performance can be quantified. The majorana approach (compared with more mature technologies like superconducting circuits or trapped ions) is a long game, where there are theoretical reasons t…
>> I need HN's classic pessimism to know if this is something to be excited about. Please chime in!
> While all players are selling a dream right now, this announcement is even more farcical.
Thanks a lot, I didn't get disappointed.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.
This isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really…
You had me up to "normal people"
> but not rewrite human DNA
smugly but writing DNA is a quantum process
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#27Can someone check my understanding: does this mean they have eight logical qubits on the chip? It appears that way from the graphic where it zooms into each logical qubit, although it only shows two there.
If that is true, it sounds like having a plan to scale to millions of logical qubits on a chip is even more impressive.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really…
Now THIS is the sort of nihilistic outlook that keeps me coming back for a hit of HN.
It's like some sort of Cunningham's Law Inception.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.
This isn’t a forum of smart people. It’s a forum of asocial tech workers who write in authoritative prose but are just normal people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper Quantum is just the next form of sampling the electromagnetic field. It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties but not rewrite human DNA or beam our consciousness to another galaxy; it’ll fill up RAM and disk really…
> people at home staring blankly at a blue glow of a mental bug zapper
Nonsense. Many of us have installed that glitchy software that makes our screens orange sometimes.
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#30My first scan parsed that as "Marijuana 1 quantum processor". Very high performance ...