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Message 1784722 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 15:21:16 UTC

Maybe this could sift through all of SETI's data nearly instantly...lol

http://www.research.ibm.com/quantum/
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Message 1784724 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 15:26:31 UTC - in response to Message 1784722.  

If that person at IBM still doesn't know that white text on a yellow background is illegible, then no thanks. :)
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Message 1784725 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 15:29:08 UTC
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New Ideas are great, and quantum computing looks like a thing, but that page looked like Apple/M$ marketing vomit.
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Message 1784745 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 17:01:27 UTC - in response to Message 1784724.  

If that person at IBM still doesn't know that white text on a yellow background is illegible, then no thanks. :)


Probably an intern's project haha, yeah definitely not their best effort...
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Message 1784748 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 17:17:07 UTC - in response to Message 1784725.  

New Ideas are great, and quantum computing looks like a thing, but that page looked like Apple/M$ marketing vomit.

Did the experts ever agree that the quantum computers were actually working as they were intended & not just doing normal operations faster than expected?
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Message 1784749 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 17:19:47 UTC - in response to Message 1784748.  

New Ideas are great, and quantum computing looks like a thing, but that page looked like Apple/M$ marketing vomit.

Did the experts ever agree that the quantum computers were actually working as they were intended & not just doing normal operations faster than expected?


Basically yeah, statistics works if you have enough data
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Message 1784821 - Posted: 4 May 2016, 23:21:24 UTC

i still think stuffed hard tacos crunch faster then a quantum computer right now...and the taco does it without guacomole
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Message 1784830 - Posted: 5 May 2016, 0:14:54 UTC - in response to Message 1784749.  

New Ideas are great, and quantum computing looks like a thing, but that page looked like Apple/M$ marketing vomit.

Did the experts ever agree that the quantum computers were actually working as they were intended & not just doing normal operations faster than expected?


Basically yeah, statistics works if you have enough data

My favorite quote I've ever heard.. "90% of all statistics can be made to say anything.. 50% of the time."
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