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MIT And HP Announce Joint Quantum Computer Project
MetaCow writes: "CNN is running this article which describes a joint effort between MIT and HP to build a quantum computer. Nothing expected any time soon, though: 'Quantum computing research is farsighted, and it may take 10 years to develop a fully operational quantum computer ...'"
Call me. I suck you long time.
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Second Post?!?!?!!?!?
I just heard sad news on talk radio -Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.
And right into my ass.
A truly beautious vision, if ever there was one.
Idiot.
I find it interesting that this makes
In the spirit of troll solidarity, today, I let you slide. We must focus our energies on making life hell for the usual bunch of idiots since they decided to escalate teh arms race.
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HP has done something like this before, developing a super-cooled RISC processor with a group of reasearchers and students at the University of Virginia. They weren't successful, but that isn't the point of these sort of things - they are more an academic exercise and HP relalizes that these Engineers are the future innovators.
But then, who cares?
Wrong.
Like this
With Alyson Hannigan on top...
Covered in Hot Grits....
With Natalie Portman in a bikini helping me Beowulf network them to my Linux boxes...
AAHHH...
Imagine downloading a 4 hour DIVX using 20 bytes. 4b sequence ID, 8b offset, 8b length. That is the same length as an IP header...
But it isn't
The 8b offset is where you're mistaken. You're forgetting about the 1-bit checksum that gets inserted in there, that makes the header have odd parity so error checking can be done faster - the initial calculation can be done with a simple even/odd query.
Still, interesting point you raise. The potential for this is almost endless.
screw you
MIT has put out a press release about the alliance. Nothing that isn't in the CNN article, but there are some photos of the people involed.
Extremely challenging, like in "it can't work and it won't ever work, but I hope the government and the industry sponsors won't find that out, at least until I retire, preferably after I am dead."
This is so true. David Deutsch is a half-crazed crackpot and con artist who manage to convince a bunch of gullible people that his chicken faether voodoo physics is real science. I never thought I'd live to see the day when science is turned into in-your-face superstition by a bunch of swindlers. Do physicists think that there are beyond public scrutiny? Do they really think they can throw any crap at the public and that the public is forced to swallow it? I think they should be careful because the public is not as stupid as they want us to belive. One day, we'll wake up from our stupor and wipe that smug superiority smile off their faces. After all we pay their salaries and we reserve the ultimate right to decide what is good science and what is not.
It is up to us, it is up to the citizens of a free society to either accept the chauvinism of science without contradiction or to overcome it by the counterforce of public action. Paul Feyerabend
All the money in the world can't switch off gravity, nor make the earth flat.
It can't create an infinite number of universes either. Nor can it allow time travel (a la Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne) or have a particle's state be two mutually exclusive values concurrently. Especially when nobody is looking.
If there is one thing that a great many physicists and mathematicians have in common, it's their insufferable pomposity. My site was not created for you. It's for the lay public. They are the ones who need to wake up and wipe that smug superiority smile off your faces and remind you who the real bosses are. So if you don't like it, don't read it.