Sure it calculates each test in parallel utilizing the "magic" of quantum mechanics, but you can only access the result of one of those calculations. So in effect all you have done is test a single case.
And after you measure the result of Divide on the entire set you get the answer to ONE of the test divisions. Just one. The whole thing would have been quicker on your pocket calculater.
I have to say that while it's an excellent Perl module it's utterly useless for the purpose of describing/studying quantum computers.
Two criticisms I have from 20 seconds reading the CPAN page are
1. It only seems to handle equal superpositions 2. He seems to be unaware that even though you can perform computations in parallel on a superposition , you can only access the result of a SINGLE computation. So the primality testing example he includes isn't going to be running on a quantum computer.
The language Betteli et al describe isn't breaking any new ground in physics, but it's aim is probably to enable computer scientists to start trying to apply formal methods in analyzing quantum computer programs. Maybe they'll have more luck coming up with new algorithms.
Just fscking great. I can see it now "Mofo is hangin at the skate park. If he has a velocity of 18 ms^-1 at the bottom of the gnarly 2.5m high ramp, can he pull of the cabalero into a backside air with 360?"
Saddam has founded a lot of archeological digs, he even had replicas built of the excavated sites so that the people could go look at their countrie's past glory without damaging the originals.
Didn't he bulldoze the remains of the city of Babylon to build an arcade or housing development?
All it has in common with the other 3 is that it starts with "Ma", I doubt most people have even heard of it.
Having said that it is an absolutely amazing piece of software for 'experiments' in pure mathematics. Group theory, Lie Theory, Algebraic geometry, number theory. I love it.
I get the impression Albini concentrates on making the recording a faithful reproduction of what the band sounds like live. Or would sound like live if you had a good spot at a good venue with good acoustics.
Nevermind is my least favourite Nirvana album because after a while it just sounds a bit dull.
Hi I'm **** and I'm a recovering theme. Originally I just wanted to make my desktop look cool, sometimes lean and mean styles like fluxbox with borderless transparent terminals and some spacey background images. Other times I'd try for an elegant desktop where I could have a panel, some sytstem monitors and icons without making the screen look cluttered.
That was fine, but there was always more to do. Redesign some buttons here, alter a gtk theme to match the gnome theme there. Pretty soon I was out of control.
My rock bottom came when I downloaded the CVS source for e17. I spent day and night with it. All I ever talked about was Evas and Imlib2. My girlfriend left, I was fired from my job, friends eventually stopped coming round.
Then I met this guy named Bill. He helped me install Windows 2000 on my laptop and showed me how it was pointless to change any of the appearence settings because they all looked the same anyway. Thanks to him and the friends I've made in here I've been able to stick to word processing and other stuff on my computer, one day at a time.
Publishers Wiley, Springer-Verlag, Prentice Hall and others have indicated that they intend to pursue legal action in order to stop the piracy of books in Australian universities.
"It's not just a few students lending a few novels here and there" aaid spokesperson I.L. Douche. "Some campuses have an entire building filled with books which they lend out to anybody."
I thought a Parsec was a unit for measuring distance, not speed. That line has always bugged me.:)
You see, travelling faster than light speed is impossible. What you need to do is warp space somehow so you have less distance to travel. The Millenium Falcon, with its souped up engine, was able to warp space so much that the Kessel run was shortened to 12 parsecs. A lesser spacecraft might have to travel 40.
What made them popular was the fact that they sell a GOOD product.
Are you joking? Those watery, burnt espressos made on stale coffee by some pimply untrained teenager on minimum wage?
The mathematician Paul Erdos once said "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." He is later reported to have said that American coffee is "for the lemmas."
Most of the crap Starbuck's sells is more milkshake than coffee. And besides, I think that last line is his sig.
America became, in some sense, what it was BECAUSE we had a frontier early in its career. That frontier, and the spirit it developed among its settlers gave America its sense of independence, innovation and a GREAT sense of self-empowerment.
Unfortunately it also gave Americans their expansive nature and perception of limitless natural resources.
I really hope this is taken seriously. The US has the ability to lead the world towards a goal like this. It is a pity that they spend most of their energy trying to convince everyone to start wars.
Yes, the speed of magnetism. The particle which mediates electromagnetic interactions is the photon which propagates at the speed of light. So if a magnet is suddenly given a push in one direction then there is a delay before distant particles notice a change in the field of that magnet.
This is an analogous result for gravity and the postulated graviton particles.
It's one thing to not understand something, we all have our fields of expertise. But assuming you know everything based on some limited high schooling makes you the saddest kind of idiot.
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Sure it calculates each test in parallel utilizing the "magic" of quantum mechanics, but you can only access the result of one of those calculations. So in effect all you have done is test a single case.
And after you measure the result of Divide on the entire set you get the answer to ONE of the test divisions. Just one. The whole thing would have been quicker on your pocket calculater.
already been done.
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/gqc/
Don't tell Stallman.
I have to say that while it's an excellent Perl module it's utterly useless for the purpose of describing/studying quantum computers.
Two criticisms I have from 20 seconds reading the CPAN page are
1. It only seems to handle equal superpositions
2. He seems to be unaware that even though you can perform computations in parallel on a superposition , you can only access the result of a SINGLE computation. So the primality testing example he includes isn't going to be running on a quantum computer.
The language Betteli et al describe isn't breaking any new ground in physics, but it's aim is probably to enable computer scientists to start trying to apply formal methods in analyzing quantum computer programs. Maybe they'll have more luck coming up with new algorithms.
The people who are presently planning for that rebuilding absolutely have their priorities straight.
You call that having their priorites straight? Nevermind what is best for Iraq, it's what's best for American Companies that's important.
Idiot.
thanks for that. I swear some people were given a book with those things in at at birth.
I have a XXX windowing system.
Just fscking great. I can see it now
"Mofo is hangin at the skate park. If he has a velocity of 18 ms^-1 at the bottom of the gnarly 2.5m high ramp, can he pull of the cabalero into a backside air with 360?"
I'd like to see this option on Dell's site
* Upgrade to Gin or Vodka coolant $49.95
Saddam has founded a lot of archeological digs, he even had replicas built of the excavated sites so that the people could go look at their countrie's past glory without damaging the originals.
Didn't he bulldoze the remains of the city of Babylon to build an arcade or housing development?
All it has in common with the other 3 is that it starts with "Ma", I doubt most people have even heard of it.
Having said that it is an absolutely amazing piece of software for 'experiments' in pure mathematics. Group theory, Lie Theory, Algebraic geometry, number theory. I love it.
Erm, neither C or C++ have strong type checking
Erm, he said strongly-typed. Go compile this and maybe you'll understand
int a(int);
int main(void) {
int c;
c = a(0.1);
}
int a(int b) {
return b;
}
I get the impression Albini concentrates on making the recording a faithful reproduction of what the band sounds like live. Or would sound like live if you had a good spot at a good venue with good acoustics.
Nevermind is my least favourite Nirvana album because after a while it just sounds a bit dull.
Hi I'm **** and I'm a recovering theme. Originally I just wanted to make my desktop look cool, sometimes lean and mean styles like fluxbox with borderless transparent terminals and some spacey background images. Other times I'd try for an elegant desktop where I could have a panel, some sytstem monitors and icons without making the screen look cluttered.
That was fine, but there was always more to do. Redesign some buttons here, alter a gtk theme to match the gnome theme there. Pretty soon I was out of control.
My rock bottom came when I downloaded the CVS source for e17. I spent day and night with it. All I ever talked about was Evas and Imlib2. My girlfriend left, I was fired from my job, friends eventually stopped coming round.
Then I met this guy named Bill. He helped me install Windows 2000 on my laptop and showed me how it was pointless to change any of the appearence settings because they all looked the same anyway. Thanks to him and the friends I've made in here I've been able to stick to word processing and other stuff on my computer, one day at a time.
Thanks for asking me to share.
Publishers Wiley, Springer-Verlag, Prentice Hall and others have indicated that they intend to pursue legal action in order to stop the piracy of books in Australian universities.
"It's not just a few students lending a few novels here and there" aaid spokesperson I.L. Douche. "Some campuses have an entire building filled with books which they lend out to anybody."
I thought a Parsec was a unit for measuring distance, not speed. That line has always bugged me. :)
You see, travelling faster than light speed is impossible. What you need to do is warp space somehow so you have less distance to travel. The Millenium Falcon, with its souped up engine, was able to warp space so much that the Kessel run was shortened to 12 parsecs. A lesser spacecraft might have to travel 40.
But they'd better not start producing THC-free pot.
What made them popular was the fact that they sell a GOOD product.
Are you joking? Those watery, burnt espressos made on stale coffee by some pimply untrained teenager on minimum wage?
The mathematician Paul Erdos once said "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." He is later reported to have said that American coffee is "for the lemmas."
Most of the crap Starbuck's sells is more milkshake than coffee. And besides, I think that last line is his sig.
America became, in some sense, what it was BECAUSE we had a frontier early in its career. That frontier, and the spirit it developed among its settlers gave America its sense of independence, innovation and a GREAT sense of self-empowerment.
Unfortunately it also gave Americans their expansive nature and perception of limitless natural resources.
I really hope this is taken seriously. The US has the ability to lead the world towards a goal like this. It is a pity that they spend most of their energy trying to convince everyone to start wars.
And as everybody knows you get more chicks if you can tell the difference.
Oh, sorry.
This would be fine if the theory of relativity didn't assume a speed of gravity.
It doesn't.
What next? The speed of magnetism?
Yes, the speed of magnetism. The particle which mediates electromagnetic interactions is the photon which propagates at the speed of light. So if a magnet is suddenly given a push in one direction then there is a delay before distant particles notice a change in the field of that magnet.
This is an analogous result for gravity and the postulated graviton particles.
It's one thing to not understand something, we all have our fields of expertise. But assuming you know everything based on some limited high schooling makes you the saddest kind of idiot.
Worked for me. The kernel interface *can* be recompiled. What do you think make does?