Quantum Part 1:
I like Quantum. I like the word. I like the sound of it. You can’t say Quantum without exercising more of your mouth muscles that usual. Of course, you have to say it out loud to feel what I mean. Say Quantum out loud.
I cannot believe you said Quantum out loud. Wait, I CAN believe it. Because in a Quantum Universe anything is possible. But that’s another Blog. THIS Blog Post is talking about a press release from my favorite Quantum Computer Company, D-Wave Quantum Computers (QBTS). Yes, I own stock in this Company. No, I am not advising anyone to buy this Company’s stock. It’s a recent press release from this Company I want to highlight today.
First off – I’ve said before Quantum Computers are a solution searching for a problem. Keep that in mind. Second off – the thing that Quantum Computers bring to the party is they are FAST at computing. Third off – SOME optimization problems are even today too much for our computers to solve quickly. Like what kind of problems, you ask?? Did you ask that? The kind of problems that involve tracking incoming ballistic missiles travelling thousands of miles an hour and scheduling the appropriate ahead response – well wait, let’s just let you read the part of the press release I’m referring to:
D-Wave and Davidson Technologies Introduce New Innovations to Advance National Defense Efforts
“…Designed to mitigate potential attacks, the interceptor assignment application is able to take into account a multitude of complex variables, including missile capability in negating threats, balanced allocation of missiles to threats, and availability of resources to help quickly identify the potential defense threats and identify key mitigation tactics. The radar scheduling application efficiently manages the time-limited resources of a phased-array radar system, enabling scheduling of communication with moving objects…”
I love the last two words “moving objects”. Sounds so innocuous. Just give the computer control of certain things and it can work faster and make decisions quicker. Sound familiar? In the Terminator Movie series, the system was called Skynet. Go ahead read it again. Here’s the good news – it most probably won’t work. It’s just a press release. We WILL talk Quantum again.
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