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Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
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Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
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>the idea of wave-packet collapse, when a measurement is done, is by itself completely unsound. It sounds crazy if you read about the math first. Which almost everyone does ... now. But in the lab, if you set up a detector array that reports individual discrete particles arriving one at a time, that is exactly what you see. You just see random arrival times. You don't see a smooth wavefunction that then collapses. Th…
The crazy thing to me is that QC is often treated as a normal thing that will come soon, but all we have so far are some crazy experiments we barely understand and some other crazy ideas to maybe build a useful application for calculation with that. So I applaud all QC researchers and wish them luck. But I start paying really attention once something actually works. As far as I understand, this is not even like Fusio…
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Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The crazy thing to me is that QC is often treated as a normal thing that will come soon, but all we have so far are some crazy experiments we barely understand and some other crazy ideas to maybe build a useful application for calculation with that. So I applaud all QC researchers and wish them luck. But I start paying really attention once something actually works. As far as I understand, this is not even like Fusio…
There are some objections/worries on the grounds of 'is reality fundamentally quantum or is there some other model that is classical and means QC doesn't work'. But it's also worth distinguishing the different approaches that are being used. Other QC computers are doing actual calculations, just not ones that demonstrably beat classical computers for practical applications, and if the whole concept works then there i…
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Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
>the idea of wave-packet collapse, when a measurement is done, is by itself completely unsound. It sounds crazy if you read about the math first. Which almost everyone does ... now. But in the lab, if you set up a detector array that reports individual discrete particles arriving one at a time, that is exactly what you see. You just see random arrival times. You don't see a smooth wavefunction that then collapses. Th…
The crazy thing to me is that QC is often treated as a normal thing that will come soon, but all we have so far are some crazy experiments we barely understand and some other crazy ideas to maybe build a useful application for calculation with that. So I applaud all QC researchers and wish them luck. But I start paying really attention once something actually works. As far as I understand, this is not even like Fusio…
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