{"id":2004,"date":"2008-07-23T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2008-07-23T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T20:45:09","slug":"fraud-fighting-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/23\/fraud-fighting-quantum-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Fighting Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early\/dp\/1590597141?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1216828202&amp;sr=8-2\">Founders at Work: Stories of Startups&#8217; Early Days<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by Jessica Livingston, we find a gem of quantum computer&#8217;s capabilities in an interview with Max Levchin, cofounder of Paypal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Its one of those things where, in the end, fraud is so nondeterministic that you need a human or a quantum computer to look at it and sort of make a final decision&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fight determinism with determinism, but fight nondeterminism with nondeterminism!  I like it!  But can you fight determinism with nondeterminism?  Why am I now singing &#8220;I shot the nondeterminism, and the nondeterminism won?&#8221;<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m pretty sure Max is waxing poetic here, cus from all I&#8217;ve read about him he&#8217;s a pretty sharp cookie.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Founders at Work: Stories of Startups&#8217; Early Days by Jessica Livingston, we find a gem of quantum computer&#8217;s capabilities in an interview with Max Levchin, cofounder of Paypal: &#8230;Its one of those things where, in the end, fraud is so nondeterministic that you need a human or a quantum computer to look at it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/23\/fraud-fighting-quantum-computers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fraud Fighting Quantum Computers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}