Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

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Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum faul…

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Here's hoping that my stock for D-Wave ends up being worth something.

Quantum computing seems super cool, but I've been a little skeptical of it actually ever yielding anything useful. I would love to be wrong, it seems neat, and I have read through a few books on the subject and played with simulators, so I'm not completely talking out of my ass here, but quantum as a whole has kind of felt like vaporware to me.

As I said, I have stock in D-Wave, obviously it would be in my best interest for quantum to end up as cool as it seems.

You can rent Quantum computing time from IBM cloud today:

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/products

https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/guides/plans-overview

I have NOT used it, but the idea is interesting.

IBM Quantum Computing | Products and services

IBM Quantum provides access to utility-scale quantum computers, along with a catalog of abstracted services from IBM and other vendors that help deliver strategic advantage with quantum computing.

You can rent it, but it's basically worthless at this stage.