• zipper [any]@hexbear.net
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    5 hours ago

    quantum computing is still in its very early infancy, literally NOTHING about it is stable yet. we can barely get them to run a dijkstra’s algorithm, let alone anything actually useful. if you don’t keep the processor cool enough it’ll just kill itself, and we’re already trying to mass produce them? putting that aside, quantum computers have a very small use case. most things it does, a classical computer can do better. who is the target userbase for this? the very saturated market of theoretical quantum physicists? i am very skeptical of this man

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      4 hours ago

      Broadly speaking, we’ll see exponential advances in simulation/modelling capacity especially related to medicine/industry. Possible advances in space exploration (think: newly discovered materials, energy efficiency). State actors will use quantum computing to crack modern encryption as one of the earliest applications.

      • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        3 hours ago

        I think it’s way too early to talk about any of that, a lot of the stuff quantum computing promises is still only theoretical and so far there hasn’t been a single “real” quantum computer that behaves is it does in the theory.