tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post6611918545525165897..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Microsoft makes play for quantum computer programmingRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-39685759993536340992017-10-06T11:35:37.810-07:002017-10-06T11:35:37.810-07:00You have discovered the phenomenon called bullshit...You have discovered the phenomenon called bullshit jobs.MD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-4513797749736643932017-09-27T11:40:57.784-07:002017-09-27T11:40:57.784-07:00Why would anyone write a computer language for a c...Why would anyone write a computer language for a computer that doesn't exist yet? How does this generate revenue for a software company? How might this be done without an intimate understanding of an existing piece of technology it would have to control? This makes me think of the simple trouble of encountering a lack of hardware drivers whenever a new operating system comes out...and that's with established technology standards everyone understands, not non-existent technology that doesn't exist yet. I would say this is just Microsoft spin and their really pushing the boundaries of the concept of 'vaporware'.CFTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-26707830483370296472017-09-25T17:48:11.163-07:002017-09-25T17:48:11.163-07:00By the way, why hasn't Bill Unruh challenged t...By the way, why hasn't Bill Unruh challenged these QCs like Gil Kalai. He has to know they are bullshit. He wrote a paper against them right at the beginning, in 1994: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9406058<br /><br />He has also written sensible views on non-locality and "psi-ontic" wave functions: <br />https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9710032.pdf<br />https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9308061.pdfMD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-84951381272232415062017-09-25T17:40:56.367-07:002017-09-25T17:40:56.367-07:00Visual Studio is the biggest piece of slow, bloatw...Visual Studio is the biggest piece of slow, bloatware garbage I have ever used. While quantum computers won't ever be built, they could only cause harm. However, Google is already ahead of them:<br /><br />"For public key encryption, such as that used for online communications and financial transactions, possible post-quantum alternatives include lattice-based, hash-based, and multivariate cryptographic algorithms as well as those that update today's Diffie-Hellman algorithm with supersingular elliptic curves. Google is already experimenting with some of these, Curran said. 'Google is working with the Lattice-based public-key New Hope algorithm,' he said. 'They are deploying it in Chrome where a small fraction of connections between desktop Chrome and Google's servers will use a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm. By adding a post-quantum algorithm on top of the existing one, they are able to experiment without affecting user security.'"<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9UTg7DHBM<br /><br />The absurdity is that XORing is not under threat but only stupid key exchange, which could be done over the phone with a credit card company or paypal ONCE.MD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.com