Is anyone fine-tuning llama to write Q#? I feel LLMs can be a helpful tool in learning how to code quantum systems.
Willow, Our Quantum Chip
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm curious if EC can mitigate the sub-par decoherence times. The main EC paper referenced in this blog post showed that the logical qubit lifetime using a distance-7 code (all 105 qubits) was double the lifetime of the physical qubits of the same machine. I'm not sure how lifetime relates to decoherence time, but if that helps please let me know.
That's very useful, I missed that when I read through the article. If the logical qubit can have double the lifetime of any physical qubit, that's massive. Recall IBM's chips, with t-times of ~400microseconds. Doubling that would change the order of magnitude. It still won't be enough to do much in the near term - like other commenters say, this seems to be a proof of concept - but the concept is very promising. The…
I'm sorry if this is nitpicky but your comment is hilarious to me - doubling something is doubling something, "changing the order of magnitude" would entail multiplication by 10.
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#273I wonder if anyone else will be forced to wait on https://scottaaronson.blog/ to tell us if this is significant.
He told when the preprint was published
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#274I wonder if anyone else will be forced to wait on https://scottaaronson.blog/ to tell us if this is significant.
He's already blogged about it a bit here
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8310#comments
and here
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8329
though I bet he will have more to say now that the paper is officially out.
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#275Is anyone else even close to Google in this space? (e.g. on the "System Metrics" the blog defines)
Main players IMHO are IBM and Quantinuum, the latter employing different platform (ions). Neither could perform the same experiment I think, but have their own advantages.
QuEra also looks good but are not as mature yet imho.
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#276Do Americans still want to breakup the big US tech companies like Google? With proper regulation it feels like their positive externalities, like this, is good for humanity.
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#277They opened the API for it and I'm sending requests but the response always comes back 300ms before I send the request, is there a way of handling that with try{} predestined{} blocks? Or do I need to use the Bootstrap Paradox library?
>They opened the API for it and I'm sending requests but the response always comes back 300ms before I send the request
For a brief moment I thought this was some quantum-magical side effect you were describing and not some API error.
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#278>the more qubits we use in Willow, the more we reduce errors, and the more quantum the system becomes That's an EXTRAORDINARY claim and one that contradicts the experience of pretty much all other research and development in quantum error correction over the course of the history of quantum computing.
I wouldn't call it extraordinary, as this has been expected since the first quantum error correcting codes were worked out theoretically. But it is a strong claim, backed up with comparably strong evidence. Figure 1d of the paper shows exactly this https://arxiv.org/html/2408.13687v1, and unlike many other comparable works, there are no hat tricks like post-selection to boost the numbers.
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#279>the more qubits we use in Willow, the more we reduce errors, and the more quantum the system becomes That's an EXTRAORDINARY claim and one that contradicts the experience of pretty much all other research and development in quantum error correction over the course of the history of quantum computing.
it... doesn't? threshold theorems are well known.
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
1024 is for RSA-1024, which is believed to be broken by classical means at this point. Everyone doing anything with RSA is on 4k or larger.
I took this conversation to be about ECC, not RSA.
Discrete log doesn't use Shor's algorithm, and appears to need more qubits to break (per key bit).