quantum computer

“So if we had a quantum computer, we could dramatically reduce the time it Took to recover the prime factors and all of modern crypto that we're using today would instantly be susceptible to attack because it wouldn't take a long, long time to decrypt somebody'…”

“This is why the NSA and other state researchers are actively investigating how to use quantum computers and new algorithms to solve this particular mathematical problem.”

“What we're really trying to do is build quantum computers that can solve a class of mathematical problems that we couldn't solve with traditional computers or that we could only solve with way big amounts of memory and would take a long, long, long, long time.”

“Instead of performing Boolean algebra operations, in quantum computers, what we're using is a set of quantum gates, and they implement quantum operations, and the way to think about this is as linear algebra operations.”

“Most quantum computers are cooled to 0.1 degrees Kelvin to minimize their interactions with the outside world.”

“Now, if you listen to the prime minister, he implied that what we were trying to do with quantum computers was make smaller computers. And while he didn't say anything technically inaccurate, I think that misses the point a little. So we're not really trying t…”

“All the world of crypto that we use on the internet today, and for Bitcoin as well, ah, would be well, would be broken if someone was able to build a quantum computer.”

“I would speculate that in my lifetime, We'll probably see some sort of a, of operating quantum computer.”

“And a quantum computer, even with a modest number of qubits, and the analogy that gets banded around by everybody who's been on the D-Wave website, or who's read all these articles, Is that a Quantum computer with 40 or 50 entangled qubits would be more powerf…”

“We're not there yet, by the way, but when we get there, these machines will have an amazing capacity to solve these types of problems. One of the applications from that would be the quick and careful analysis of our DNA, and the creation of designer drugs.”

“And with a quantum computer, if you have a hundred qubits and you add one more, you don't have a one percent performance increase, you double the performance. And that persists independent of the memory size. So every quantum bit you add to the system doubles,…”

“And part of what that implies is that you need to build a very sophisticated Classical computer around the quantum computer to both leverage its resources and to offload anything from that quantum computer that can be offloaded so that the quantum computer is …”

“Quantum computers can actually search combinatorially a huge space for certain kinds of problems and actually find the real thing that nature would do.”

“Like, you can't actually store data on these quantum computers. They're just literally, right now, just compute engines.”

“Unlike classical computers, which you can kind of run for days and weeks, Or in perhaps years at a time, quantum computers kind of run in bursts of a hundred microseconds.”

“One of the surprising aspects of quantum computing is that scientists and mathematicians and computer engineers don't really know all of the problems that can be solved by a quantum computer. We just know some of them, and that's not How classical computing wo…”

“Or enzymes. It's all the chemistry, you know, so, so this is something where a quantum computer could be able to do calculations that are either much bigger at much higher accuracy where actually would be essentially much bigger at higher, much much higher acc…”

“So you never really, at least in the early days, want to ever put those things, on a customer site, you want to put them in a secure facility someplace and provide cloud access or remote access to them.”

“Building cloud access into how you get at a quantum computer will quicken the pace at which the killer apps are found instead of there being one, like there was in the early days of the PC and electronic spreadsheet, we might see a half a dozen of them pop up …”

“What will happen is a quantum computer at first will seem like it won't be all that useful. It will be below the number of qubits that you need. Maybe you need a hundred qubits to solve the problem and the existing machine only has 64. And so a classical compu…”

“Quantum computers are ever built. Yes, they will be able to affect the signature algorithm that's used for securing assets on blockchains today, but not to worry. We have other signature algorithms that are actually quantum resistance. So even if you have a qu…”