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A good drinking game for anyone interested is to look up the latest articles on quantum “breakthroughs” and see how many use the phrase “highly scalable”.

In every situation I’ve seen this used, including in this article, it has barely been demonstrated in a tiny-scale form and there is no evidence on how they would scale. This is significant because there is no way that quantum computers could be usable if these schemes can’t be scaled.

This study in this article demonstrated a process with a one-qubit system and concluded that it could be scaled arbitrarily - I don’t think we need to dig back into our physics textbooks to say that whilst that is great marketing, it’s terrible science.

The article makes this point for me - they say that approaches researchers currently use to connect to quantum computers (for example IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS)) are not scalable - however, they would also have us believe that the unproven system that the scientists are proposing, would be scalable.

The usefulness of the proposal hinges on the idea that it is not acceptable for the company hosting the quantum computer – e.g. IBM or AWS – to be able to snoop on the quantum algorithms being run.

However, people accept this with cloud computing (and remote access to supercomputers) which are used widely in almost every industry to store proprietary information and this is not viewed as a problem there.

To round it off in classic fashion the article states "Quantum computers are poised to outperform the world's most Powerful supercomputers". This unproven statement might be a good one to add to your 2024 quantum computing bullshit bingo card.

Your boy, Schrodinger's Rat

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text A good drinking game for anyone interested is to look up the latest articles on quantum “breakthroughs” and see how many use the phrase “highly scalable”. In every situation I’ve seen this used, including in this article, it has barely been demonstrated in a tiny-scale form and there is no evidence on how they would scale. This is significant because there is no way that quantum computers could be usable if these schemes can’t be scaled. This study in this article demonstrated a process with a…
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