Seriously, though. Would any of us be happy if Volvo, Volkswagon, Ford, Hyundai, and Chrysler decided to "standardize" their automobiles to compete with one big vendor? I for one would say no. It would make some innovative new idea, like say a zero emmissions fuel cell car, that much more unlike the standard. New ideas will seem more outrageous if there's such a baseline from which to deviate.
What you've said is sort of true, but more importantly, quantum computers must contain classical components to operate. A quantum computer will have silicon like a skeleton supporting its foamy quantum flesh.
Take as example, simple quantum error correction (which is much more important in quantum computers than classical ones) must involve classical routines such as syndrome detection and are critical for the basic storage and movement of quantum information which otherwise decoheres in picoseconds. Basically, you'll have classical error correction subroutines running like arteries around qubits as the flow through the computer. So, you can bet that silicon will run throughout the quantum computer.
Shor's quantum algorithm for factoring integers is based on peiod finding and it has many, many classical parts.
I'd like to know why something like Cambridge University Press didn't publish it. Does Steve Wolfram expects us to believe that he started a company to make loads of money to support his own research without having to teach physics 101? That he started a publishing company so that he wouldn't have to bother with peer review?
There's nothing in that book of his that's significant. Yes, maybe discrete mechanics is important, but it was important before Steve entered his attic. Come to think of it, I think maybe he heard about Andrew Wiles working in solitude on the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture and thought it be cool to pretend to have done the same.
John Katz, couldn't you have looked past the first goddamn paragraph of the NYTimes review of AOC to find some catchy word to snip? I mean, my God, the NYT review was announced on slashdot today?
...the American moviegoing public will line up out of habit and compulsion, ruefully hoping that this episode will at least be a little better than the last one, and perhaps inwardly suspecting that the whole elephantine system is rotten.
So,/. readers, from which articles did JK cut and paste to get his Spidey-man ideas?
Given Mr. Lee's long career in horror films, the contest also recalls one of those debates that erupt among third graders about the relative prowess of fictional characters. ("No way could Batman beat up Superman. He doesn't even really have powers." "Yuh-uh, 'cause what if Batman had some Kryptonite?" "Yeah, but neither one of them could beat the Incredible Hulk.") Could Yoda beat up Dracula? Good question. But the more relevant one is whether Anakin Skywalker can beat Spider-Man.
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So, will the SEC have to step in an approve this?
Seriously, though. Would any of us be happy if Volvo, Volkswagon, Ford, Hyundai, and Chrysler decided to "standardize" their automobiles to compete with one big vendor? I for one would say no. It would make some innovative new idea, like say a zero emmissions fuel cell car, that much more unlike the standard. New ideas will seem more outrageous if there's such a baseline from which to deviate.
What you've said is sort of true, but more importantly, quantum computers must contain classical components to operate. A quantum computer will have silicon like a skeleton supporting its foamy quantum flesh.
Take as example, simple quantum error correction (which is much more important in quantum computers than classical ones) must involve classical routines such as syndrome detection and are critical for the basic storage and movement of quantum information which otherwise decoheres in picoseconds. Basically, you'll have classical error correction subroutines running like arteries around qubits as the flow through the computer. So, you can bet that silicon will run throughout the quantum computer.
Shor's quantum algorithm for factoring integers is based on peiod finding and it has many, many classical parts.
I'd like to know why something like Cambridge University Press didn't publish it. Does Steve Wolfram expects us to believe that he started a company to make loads of money to support his own research without having to teach physics 101? That he started a publishing company so that he wouldn't have to bother with peer review?
There's nothing in that book of his that's significant. Yes, maybe discrete mechanics is important, but it was important before Steve entered his attic. Come to think of it, I think maybe he heard about Andrew Wiles working in solitude on the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture and thought it be cool to pretend to have done the same.
Let's be a bit more precise here. A more acurate expression of the contrapositive is
And it has a bit different meaning with "can be" than with "is".John Katz, couldn't you have looked past the first goddamn paragraph of the NYTimes review of AOC to find some catchy word to snip? I mean, my God, the NYT review was announced on slashdot today?
So, /. readers, from which articles did JK cut and paste to get his Spidey-man ideas?
More likely, some idiot just logged in and changed the password!
From the NYTimes review: