A new language for quantum computing

Jan 25, 2022 5:00 PM

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https://news.mit.edu/2022/new-language-quantum-computing-twist-0124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMS_PFy7Ck

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Skynet the final phase.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

me, who can google php code: v

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

So, Skynet has its own language now? Nothing can go wrong with that, right?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

most AI that talk to other AI end up creating a shorthand of their own...been doing that sort of thing since at least the mid 1980's

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I understood Gore and let's

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Businesses are already looking for developers with 10 years experience in this language

3 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

everytime im trying to get deeper into understanding quantum physics my brain just starts to hurt ...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i imagine a sphere. regular bits (1,0) are the north/south poles, nowhere else. a quantum bit can be anywhere on the sphere's surface tho

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't click on the YouTube link, clickbait af.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just another Twist in my sobriety.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A small part of me still thinks quantum scientists are just fucking with us...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just download my brain into it already

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well hell, I already knew that.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Now hook it up to a bitcoin miner to send the difficulty curve so high nobody can ever mine again. I want my damn 3080 already.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Silvio Micali at MIT already solved this by developing a Cryptocurrency that grows via Proof of Stake. They are Carbon Negative as of 2021.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And yet over a year later I still can't get my hands on a damn card because Cryptominers are still gobbling them up.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*looks over at the tired old RX 580 in the computer :(

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It runs on trumpets?

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

always has *cocks trumpet*

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Okay...what does that mean?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

they figured out a method of error checking code for very fiddly, limited types of computers that tend to operate at -459 Fahrenheit

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cool. Can they run Doom now?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

nope. mostly just integer factorization into primes...closer to a FPGA than a CPU or GPU if i'm being honest

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bet it still uses log4j...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"works on my machine"

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The pic is from Devs, right?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Quantum Programming Bugs - the future is here*

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You have and simultaneously do not have a bug!

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

That's a beast description of a feature!

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

'Moving into the 'Steam Punk' era now...'

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pfft! I know Adam Warlock's chamber when I see it.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They'll probably call it "Dirac C" or something.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

T... T++... T#...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lisp? Is it Lisp?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Great, a another new language that I'll have to have 10 years experience with to get the job.

3 years ago | Likes 200 Dislikes 2

You make me cry

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just report your total experience across the quantum multiverse. "My experience is infinite; we are all eternal"

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

it's quantum you'll actually need both -10 and +10 years experience to be considered for the post :-P

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I have zero, so mathematically I do qualify.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and your cat herding qualifications are....? :-P

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pspspsps

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It’s the only language capable of calculating the size of your moms ass.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This qualification will exist the day after the language is written.

3 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Hey it might work with quantum computing. You simultaneously exist in a state with 10 years of experience and without.

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Just learn to say "yes" and "no" at the same time, and you're in.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Schrodinger's programming language

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Remember 7 years ago when we all got hoverboards. That was epic.

3 years ago | Likes 284 Dislikes 1

We have fuckin jetpacks dude

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where’s yours?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't discount the fact that we're actually working with them these days- It's fuckin' /wild/ that we've dev'd some that actually w o r k .

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I read this and was, "no wait, that was supposed to be 2015 and that was only 5 years..."

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The 90's ended about 10 years ago.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I was actually referring to losing 2 years due to covid...

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As long as you don’t go on water, unless you’ve got power.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well then you'd need a Pit Bull.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are actual hover-boards. They just suck royally and are dam near uncontrollable and only work over purpose made surfaces.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Watching Tony Hawk bust his ass was funny as hell though.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

True. But he was likely one of the few people who would have been able to control it and even he said it was almost impossible. ->

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Turns out Friction is a key element of control for a moving object.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who would have thought

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, we got something they called hoverboards, anyway.

3 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They were not boards, and they did not hover. They were shitty Segways.

3 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

wiith the handle chopped off

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry, I can't hear over the sound of my flying car.

3 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

We have had flying cars since the 70's. They all suck, look horrible and are hard to fly and are hugely bulky for car use.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love how scifi quantum computers look! And I hate that companies keep enclosing them in black cubes.

3 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

Yeah I was hoping more ziggy vibes

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Transparent fridges are energy-inefficient, AFAIK.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure if you can look directly at it, it's too warm to be operating. it needs to be @ liquid helium temps to actually work.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i don't want to see it working.. i just want to see it

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah the black cube may have something to do with cost and the liquid helium inside

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Psshhh.. Clear plastic cube then.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The fact that it’s clear means it lets photons through. And photons means unwanted spurious energy in the system.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Safety is not sci-fi!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Based on what I know I think the more shielding the better.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Just 10 more years guys!

3 years ago | Likes 405 Dislikes 5

I'd upvote but you're on 69

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

quantum computing forecast 2000: "10 more years!" ... 2010: "10 more years!" ... 2020.... oh you have it figured out now

3 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

Almost there! Just give us about 10 more years...

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

We kind of have the base teach for them made we just don't really know how to use them for anything yet.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's here, motherfucker. And the infosec community is. Not. Ready.

3 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Ppl keep promising the end of humanity and so far we're still here, at this point I'm not getting my hopes up bc I'm tired of being let down

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yeah just 10 more years of filler episodes before I see another DBZ fusion

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hold on he's powering up for a spirit bomb...any minute now

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wait a sec, did you calculate that using a quantum computer?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I did. The answer was 42

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

...until what?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Untill digital singularity, where some couter deems us a threat to itself and plugs into the global network and everything becomes a killer

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They've actually made considerable progress in the last ten years. Enough people are actually spending money on upgrading to quantum

3 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

Resistant encryption.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Tbf whirl progress happened. Choices like that are often about managing fear. Someone posts an article about how quantum computing that is

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just around the corner is a threat that will make your security a joke, and then one company has quantum computer proof encryption others

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Follow because a non zero amount of people would switch to the "safer" option.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hot and fresh out the kitchen

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

No.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Momma Rollin they bodies.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Got every nerd in here wishin

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And then we will have cold fusion

3 years ago | Likes 99 Dislikes 1

v

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just in time for the apocalypse brought about by corporate greed.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No, that's flying cars.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

... or was that warp drive... I don't know anymore.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

When we get warp drive we should try what happens if we put two warp cores together.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't think the vulcans will fall for that again.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually 5-10yrs. Infrastructure construction in the US is to start in the next 3-5yrs

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ah yes, a glass of water which could power the city of Chicago for a week.

3 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Will we have any clean water at that point?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'll even have free Healthcare /s

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That is utter nonsense. That glass of water wouldn't last past Thursday.

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

If it doesn't get stolen. This is Chicago we're talking about after all.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

v

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fusion is always 30 years away ?

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

It's only 10 years away from being 20 years away....from 30 years away

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Idk, have you ever seen DragonBall Z? They've achieved fusion a few times

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would say we have actually brought it down to 20 years now. Since there are a few near full sized reactors in existence. Now it's just ->

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I've been waiting for ITER to be finished for decades now, they keep moving up the timeline...

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

a matter of seeing if it can actually work or not.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I hope ITER was/is worth the millions of euros we poured into it.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Flip the switch mother fucker!

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So for how many years to you think it will be 20 years away? 40 years? ? Then perhaps it will be 10 years away for 25 years. ?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Quantum computing scares the fuck out of me.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You’re just scared of the unknown, or something you don’t understand. It’s an irrational primal fear.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Honest question from a tech pleb: why?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It'll make automated trading fraud more lucrative and harder to detect or fix.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Every password and security code you've ever made can be cracked and catalogued in literal seconds, for starters.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Google still scared of 2 of their own chatbots they faced together 1 day...if an AI goes quantum who knows?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For one thing they're supposed to be able to crack modern encryption in minutes, if not seconds.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It’s no biggie, just increase the search space, or use a resistant algorithm. Quantum computing is not magic.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are quantum-resistant encryption methods. No big deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Idk if ur serious or not. I don't think anyone can say something is going to be resistant to qc when it hasn't been done. Didn't read the

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Simply put cryptography is math to obfuscate data. QC can decode math fast. So, fancier algorithms won't work, you just need to encrypt

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Not just anyone has access to them, and their use is under heavy oversight for this reason

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

a very good point and all the more reason to be alarmed

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Quantum computing is the next giant leap in humanity. We can't even begin to imagine the things that will be unlocked and humans are stupid

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