O brave new quantum world!
Higgs rumor spreads to Slate.com. Me, I want to start a rumor that a Manhattan project for quantum computing has already built a large scale quantum computer (now wouldn’t that make a certain company which has built a small special purpose analog classical computer mad.)
Okay, so talking about D-wave is certainly not good for my Zen-Budha nature. Not good at all! So let’s talk about something related to D-wave but only tangentially so that I can get that Zen-Budha nature back. One issue that comes up a lot in discussion about D-wave is simulated annealing. Wikipedia does a nice …
So many times scientists are very harsh on science journalists. Thus it is refreshing to see this article in the MIT Technology Review by Jason Pontin on D-Wave’s recent Orion quantum computer. The article includes an interview with D-Wave’s Geordie Rose by Pontin which is rather refreshing mostly for the fact that Pontin pulls out …
Bah (posted without long line of four letter words I would really like to print but am forced, by my good nature and good upbringing, to avoid printing on this family friendly blog.): “Businesses aren’t too fascinated about the details of quantum mechanics, but academics have their own axes to grind. I can assure you …
The mystery of what exactly was built up north has been resolved. They built a brain: Within Holistic Quantum Relativity lies the realm of the human mind and the observable universe running like Quantum Computers: this technological synthesis offers the possibility of solving what computer science calls “NP-complete” problems. Last week D-Wave Systems, a privately-held …
No sooner do I attack biologists as the common mortal enemy of computer scientists and physicists in my last post when along comes quant-ph/0702203. Yet another nomination, in that great cosmic contest: “best paper title ever!” (said with the comic book guy accent, of course.) quant-ph/0702203: Purple bacteria and quantum Fourier transform Author: Samir Lipovaca …
Update: 2/5/07 After some conversations, I’ve realized that there is, I think, a big algorithmic wrench in the endeavor described below. Due to this I’ve added some text to this post in italics to describe what I think this wrench is and why my skeptic meter is getting higher and higher. I’ve been meaning to …
A new quantum computing blog! Geordie Rose, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of D-Wave (the British Columbia company questing to build a quantum computer) now has a blog called rose.blog. Geordie certainly named the blog after his last name, but when I read that title, I hear “Rosebud” and want to go sledding.
Okay, we will officially call this week “D-wave week.” According to an article here (update: for a link that may work for all browsers, see here), D-wave just secured another round of financing, to the tune of $14,000,000.
Two posts over at Quantum Algorithms, one on D-Wave Systems and another one on a supposed algorithm for solving NP-complete problems efficiently on a quantum computer. When I was a graduate student at Berkeley, when a paper came out claiming that quantum computers could solve NP-complete problems, we would all race to see who could …