On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 1:20 AM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > >> > >> Regarding the quantum computer, I understand that it is still a >> classical computer > > > If a Human being like you, or any computer in existence today, > had a telephone number and tried to match it up with a name in a telephone > book that had one mullion entries you or the computer would have to go > through half a million operations before there was a 50% chance of finding a > match, but a quantum computer would only need a thousand ; it goes as the > square root of N not N/2. That ain't classical. > > In areas other than search, such as predicting the chemical properties of > large molecules, the advantage a quantum computer would have over a > conventional computer or the human mind would be even greater.
Russell already replied and I agree with what he says. I am also very excited about quantum computers, and there's no doubt that more computational power leads to exciting things. For example, Google started a neural network renaissance mostly by employing models that were already known for some time, but adding a lot of computational power and large datasets to them. My point was simply that one cannot expect something qualitatively different from quantum computers. There is nothing that a quantum computer can do that a classical computer cannot do, given sufficient time. Telmo. > > John K Clark > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
