Does Google's quantum computer have the right stuff?

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Thrift
There are few details from Google about what the actual hardware and process is. Here is a range of possibilities: https://medium.com/swlh/how-google-probably-made-the-quantum-supremacy-chip-296d5d321bbd "Here’s a guess at the identity (and order) of our 14 lithography layers, followed by a

Re: Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 6:33:44 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 5:42 AM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > *> This was a pretty pointless article. Aaronson says nothing about what >> is potentially useful for QCs* >> > > Aaronson: "*One major milestone to watch for

Re: Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 12:32:26 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 3:25:21 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> Quantum Computer expert Scott Aaronson wrote a editorial in the October >> 30 2019 New York Times: >> >> Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy

Re: Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

2019-11-02 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 5:42 AM Philip Thrift wrote: *> This was a pretty pointless article. Aaronson says nothing about what is > potentially useful for QCs* > Aaronson: "*One major milestone to watch for next will be the first use of small quantum computers to simulate the quantum physics of

From Type Theory to Haskell in 10 Minutes

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Thrift
Nifty little article with pictures of Leibniz, Russell, Church. "From Leibniz to Russell; from type theory to the lambda calculus; and from the simply-typed lambda calculus to Curry-Howard Correspondence, ... all the way to self-proving functional programs (like the ones we wrote in

Re: Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Thrift
This was a pretty pointless article. Aaronson says nothing about what is potentially useful for QCs (if they ever work as the "theory" suggests) -- How parallel computing can be achieved with qubits: https://quantum-algorithms.herokuapp.com/433/shor-par/node11.html On Friday,

Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstrated

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Thrift
Trump rallies. @philipthrift On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 8:42:27 PM UTC-5, spudb...@aol.com wrote: > > Yeah, zombies via WiFi, where weaker personalities subsume, to that of the > great leader. Thus, 10,000 Maniacs (go ahead, sing!) > > > -Original Message- > From: Philip Thrift >