[FRIAM] invoking quantum woo (was Book publishing advice needed)

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I feel the same way. But my brief thrashing in this rabbit hole was interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

In particular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Quantum_computing_attacks

I only mention that because it seems to imply a real impact on everyday yahoos. I do think there are domain-specific applications, particularly optimization and search. But others will have more direct answers.

On 7/8/20 7:22 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Roger, I've become rather suspicious of the field of quantum computing for much the same reasons. Surely *someone* can write an easily understood basic explanation of how it is supposed to work in principle. Maybe I just haven't dug deep enough, but everything seems to be either too hand-wavy, too focused on how that's going to make Google or Microsoft or whoever even more uber rich, or dismissive of the possibility that the general computing community could understand it. I would be willing to suspend disbelief long enough to take it as a given that a qbit could take on two states at the same time, but then I'd like to see how this fact can be put to practical use *at an algorithmic level* to solve some problem.

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