06/20/2019 11:50 pm EST
So anyway that last post dated 03/05/2019
should give you some idea of just how really huge my home planet is . Atmospheric turbulence is so strong it can literally pitch you repeatedly back into orbit multiple times until you hit it just right and...
In truth the work I'm doing is a big deal to me and has been threatening to achieve self propelled flight for some time. In spite of multiple disasters over the last several years we've managed to keep those irons in the fire. I've pared expenses down to the bone and this also being now a 3rd Florida summer without air conditioning plus year 2 of bicycle-as-sole means of transportation...I think I can use the word survivor without qualification. Still , I have to shut down here for 20 minutes or so when the temp climbs over 100⁰ which unfortunately becomes a fact of life as we head into August.
Reasons for return and amplification of efforts via blogging , social and site building have been mounting across multiple dimensions and now we have this :
According to @Google engineer @HartmutNeven, quantum computers are gaining on classical ones at a staggering DOUBLY exponential rate. My story for @QuantaMagazine https://t.co/GfOCdSpEDe— Kevin Hartnett (@KSHartnett) June 18, 2019
There will be the usually presumptive breathless leaps as press conflate computational unbounding with physical unbounding which of course has not (and will not) happen but then there is this :
“I think the undeniable reality of this progress puts the ball firmly in the court of those who believe scalable quantum computing can’t work.” — Scott Aaronson, UT-Austinhttps://t.co/4E6qY1cnp9— Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine) June 20, 2019
He goes on to say : “They’re the ones who need to articulate where and why the progress will stop.”
The thing in the article that made me get up and walk around a bit :
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Quanta author @KSHartnett :
That rapid improvement has led to what’s being called “Neven’s law,” a new kind of rule to describe how quickly quantum computers are gaining on classical ones. The rule began as an in-house observation before Neven mentioned it in May at the Google Quantum Spring Symposium. There, he said that quantum computers are gaining computational power relative to classical ones at a “doubly exponential” rate — a staggeringly fast clip.
With double exponential growth, “it looks like nothing is happening, nothing is happening, and then whoops, suddenly you’re in a different world,” Neven said. “That’s what we’re experiencing here.”
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That observation itself is not wholly unexpected - it's the observation of the transition-as-phase-change that stops you in your tracks...and that must have blown team Google's socks clean off.
Now elevating these observations to something akin to Moore's law will take a bit more than what's in the article:
re forumites: Brings up something *very* interesting - the exponential epoch that Moore's law occurs in has a temporal lag that at the most brings u temporally to a classical "now". A doubly exponential Neven's gets u into the potential equivalent of a "look ahead" computation...— KilleansRow (@KilleansRow) June 20, 2019
...so can our QC's send their answers back to the past or do we have to bake that in and make another pot O' coffee ?— KilleansRow (@KilleansRow) June 20, 2019
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...a bit of wise-assery but folks on reddit and elsewhere were already making way for tachyonic computation with unbounded double exponentials !
My current research is at the intersection of classical and quantum computation ;overlaps and duals in the computational hierarchy that may or may not have consequences regarding spectra of macroscopic phenomena (Augmented 𝜳) and some seemingly outrageous but now fully acknowledged links to cosmology and the standard model (AdS/CFT , quantum error correcting codes, gravitational waves, black holes). How does one make practical applications of these disparate areas ? It depends on what kind of questions your asking. Part of this frontier involves machine learning and artificial intelligence. Those two represent the crossroads , a full bore playground where both fun and terror reside in equal measure. The application that links them all together is called signal detection.
...More To Come
