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Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

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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tombert Apr 2

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.

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esseph Apr 2

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.

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AlexCoventry

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