Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why?

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Btw: What a quantum computer can reliably do these days, is tell you 21 is 3 x 7. And it takes hours and quite some traditional computing to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_records#Records_for_efforts_by_quantum_computers

We've progressed a bit further than that. But for anyone interested in actual applications for quantum computers... They'll have to wait. It's research at this point. We're making progress one step at a time. But so far no one has even demostrated we're able to scale those computers to a useful size.

So I'd say we're somewhere close to the origin of the axes. Or on a different graph for research that's still science fiction. Together with nuclear fusion power plants, thorium cars, space ships and hypothetical battery chemistry that'll make our electric cars go 5000 miles and not degrade over time.

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