Quantum Computing : Othor Games

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:47 am

Title/subtitle says it all.

Also,http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108766-Flawed-Diamonds-May-Be-the-Key-to-Quantum-Computing.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:50 am

what is that?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:19 am

Artificial intelligence.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:36 am

Quantum Computing. What exactly could it be used for?

Computers. What exactly could they be used for?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:46 am

Realistic Water !!1!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:32 am

Ridiculously vast improvement in computer capabilities. Could make the ones we have now look like abacuses.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:39 am

It means I'll have to learn trinary. All this time learning powers of 2, wasted.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:30 am

Holy crap, Radiant AI could actually be Radiant and an AI. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:48 pm

Computers. What exactly could they be used for?

Oh you.

Realistic Water !!1!

The pinnacle of gaming.

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Might they be used for gaming? What will games be like then?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:58 am

DRM
:cheat:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:43 am

You know that something is wicked if somebody called Shor contributed to it.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:48 pm

Might they be used for gaming? What will games be like then?

Again: computers. Can they be used for gaming?

Quantum computing is computing, only quantum. Just a different kind of computing - faster and more efficient, but it could be used for anything for which the current methods of computing are used.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:15 am

Might they be used for gaming? What will games be like then?

"My games are programmed with quantum computing and all I got was this stupid shirt."

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:28 am

"...programmed with quantum computing..."

That makes no sense.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:32 am

That makes no sense.

I think it's just a joke. We can hope.

Edit
No expert on quantum computer, but is trinary even the right way to refer to how a quantum computer might be programmed?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:09 am

That makes no sense.

Programmed in trinary, there.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:04 pm

Programmed in trinary, there.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Bits_vs._qubits
2) It would be up to compiler/interpreter to compile/interpret a source code in proper way in order for it to be executed on a trinary-based machine. The same source code could be used on both common PCs and a trinary-based machine if the proper compiler/interpreter for the machine existed. Hence, programs are not "written in binary". They are compiled in binary, though.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:21 am

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Bits_vs._qubits
2) It would be up to compiler/interpreter to compile/interpret a source code in proper way in order for it to be executed on a trinary-based machine. The same source code could be used on both common PCs and a trinary-based machine if the proper compiler/interpreter for the machine existed.

Ah, came to the same conclusion with a quick wiki. My hunch was right.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:23 pm

Future computer powered through platinum cables, networked with pure light through fiber optics, and processing with diamonds.
That is incredibly elegant.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:14 pm

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Bits_vs._qubits

I was under the impression that quantum computing used three states of a spinning electron, which would be spinning one way, the other way, or not at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutrit

Perhaps I was mixing trinary up with ternary. But can't trinary represent ternary logic?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:18 am

I was under the impression that quantum computing used three states of a spinning electron, which would be spinning one way, the other way, or not at all.

No, it's a lot more complicated than that.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:38 am

What exactly could it be used for?

Well, one thing it could mean is that someone would have to come up with a whole new bunch of cryptographic methods because quantum computing could potentially solve the existing ones in an instant.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:59 pm

A betterer gaming experience.