[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 69, Issue 11

Sun Jul 9 11:53:26 CEST 2017

That Independent article is dumb as ass. Quantum computing only solves a
*very* specific set of problems; for instance doing queries on a database
may be made quite a lot faster, and linear optimization problems (which are
so common it's not even funny) will see a great improvement with it, but
writing the rendering code of a web browser would suck horribly.

Also, keep in mind that quantum computing gives *approximates* result. So
if your boss is okay with 2+2 being 4 only 99.9 percent of the time you can
proceed with qubits. (of course this is a dumb example, but AFAIK current
state of the art experimental linear optimization algorithms have a
fidelity ~ 98.5%).

Best,
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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com>
wrote:

> >Qt company belive that qml is the best thing that happened to qt. So many
> years have passed and we still see this.
> >
> >Reminds me of Nokia, they kept saying windows phone will succeed. Too
> late.
> >
> >Problem is that unlike windows phone Qt has no serious compitition (well
> wxwidgets is not that level). So Qt can live longer.
> >
> >I miss  QWidget.
>
> Just an FYI, Microsoft has issued an End of Life for Windows Phone/Mobile
> without a replacement option. Google is in the process of abandoning
> Android and its butchered underlying Linux OS for Fushcia and Cannonical
> has their own fork of Fushcia (sp?) after Unity basically failed.
>
> A later post on this list talks about the movement to put Qt's core
> features including a Moc like step into the C++ standard. It's just white
> papers, lecturing and grumblings right now but should not be long before it
> turns to pitch forks and torches for the angry mob.
>
> I'm just too old. I've seen too many of these frameworks start out with
> great promise then get pulled down a rabbit hole as they try to be all
> things to all people, whoever "all" is defined as at the moment. CScape,
> Zinc, etc. Heck, even Watcom took a stab at it with their OS/2-DOS-Windows
> platform and IDE and when Novell, their biggest customer by far, had a
> brush with the bankruptcy reef, Watcom went away. It now even looks like
> the OpenWatcom project has faded into the sunset.
>
> Very soon, like within the next 8 years, the x86 based world of INTEL and
> ARM will be relegated to embedded devices. IBM is going to release their
> first Quantum computer with API in 2018. IBM will naturally try to scale it
> up to the Big Iron world of old while other companies will try to scale it
> down, first to midrange computers, then desktops. If you are really old
> like I am you remember a time when we had feeble 8086, 80286 based desktops
> and just down the hall there were Sparc Stations and all of these other
> high end engineering workstations. History is about to repeat itself. The
> "cloud" built out of low end x86 blades and racks will be replaced by a
> massive Quantum computer or 5. Development machines will be smaller
> Quantums for "engineering workstations" and PC based machines will be
> viewed as quaint antiques like mechanical adding machines.
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new
> s/ibm-quantum-computer-how-work-commercial-api-faster-q-syst
> ems-computing-a7613271.html
>
> According to that the first generation unit will be millions of times
> faster than today's tech and it is not a white paper theory. The machine is
> being tested now with various dates in 2018 floated for production. Oddly
> enough I haven't read anything about Quantum disk drives. It's all well and
> good we can now have a Boolean holding as many states of true and false as
> today's 64-bit integer, but, if the spinning platter of rust we need to
> store on cannot....
>
> I wonder if we will see them bring back The Brick phone just so we can get
> a big enough battery.
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Dy
> naTAC8000X.jpg/220px-DynaTAC8000X.jpg
>
> Within 3 years of Quantums going full production the same thing will
> happen which happened before. Mechanical, biological and chemical engineers
> will clamor about needing the speed on their desktops and _someone_ will
> scale it down to create sub $100K engineering workstations. The x86 world
> cannot scale up to compete. In the past INTEL and the big CPU makers were
> competing in the same arena. Both were trying to scale, pack and cool to
> increase speed. Occasionally one manufacturer invented a new compound which
> allowed the next major leap in processing power, eventually plateauing and
> opting to stacking more lower powered cores in the same or a reasonable
> amount of space.
>
> What much of the world calls a "smart phone" will have to follow suit, not
> because the apps need to be able to dynamically calculate how to turn lead
> into gold but because the graphics world, driven by Hollywood and
> television makers will start deploying Quantums for dynamic image
> generation. In a very short period of time the displays you now consider
> beautiful will look like DOS text graphics of the 1980s. Personally I
> prefer that interface for many types of applications. Seriously, just how
> pretty do you need your word processor or email client to be? Wont' matter.
> The consumer will want the same amazing experience on every device. The
> image file standards we have today will simply go away, replaced by Quantum
> data fed into an image rendering library on a Quantum core.
>
> Sorry, I guess I need to mindlessly vent. This happens when I decide to
> read email I've been putting off instead of writing another book when I
> know I should be writing the book.
>
> --
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