Karlie Kloss - SuperModel, and computer programmer. What does this have to do with Quantum Computers. Who cares?
IBM is letting anyone who wants to test drive its next-generation computer by putting its quantum computing platform online. http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/04/tec...omputing/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool
Google starts experimenting with quantum-secure connections in Chrome If quantum computing ever lives up to its promise (and that’s still a big ‘if’ at this stage), somebody could use this technology to retroactively [] break any communications that were encrypted with today’s standard encryption algorithms. To guard against this, Google today announced that it will now start experimenting using post-quantum algorithms to encrypt the connections between the experimental Canary version of Chrome and some of its services. To be clear, this is only an experiment for now and only a small number of connections between the browser and Google’s servers will use this new algorithm. The idea here, though, is to bring this idea to the forefront now and “gain real-world experience with the larger data structures that post-quantum algorithms will likely require,” as Google engineer Matt Braithwaite writes in today’s announcement. Few people fully understand quantum computing, let alone quantum cryptography. As best as I can tell, though, the new system will use standard cryptography in addition to this new post-quantum key-exchange algorithm. Specifically, the team is using the New Hope algorithm, which was designed for providing post-quantum security for TLS — the protocol that makes HTTPS secure. Google, which has a history of launching new internet protocols, specifically says that it doesn’t want to create a new de-facto standard. Braithwaite notes that New Hope was the most promising post-quantum key exchange the team found when it investigated this project in December 2015. Since then, though, more research in this area has already been published — including from a team of Google researchers who collaborated with NXP, Microsoft, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and McMaster University. Because of this, Google plans to discontinue the current experiment within two years. If you want to participate in the experiment, you’ll have to install the Canary version of Chrome (which can be unstable at times) and with a bit of luck, the occasional connection to Google’s servers will then be encrypted using this new algorithm. To see which protocol Chrome used to open a site, check out the Security Panel in the Chrome dev tools. If you see ‘CECPQ1,’ then the connection used the new system. Interestingly, we also today reported on the $10.3 million funding round the post-quantum cryptography startup PQ recently raised. Google’s news definitely validates PQ’s work on building post-quantum systems. https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/07/g...ng-with-quantum-secure-connections-in-chrome/
Linear Logic, and in particular Linear Types turns out to be important in Quantum Computer Programming. I found this article to be pretty good introduction http://personal.strath.ac.uk/ross.duncan/papers/rduncan-thesis.pdf One thing that I gathered from browsing this book [one reason to have a good university library near by] is that the US government is horribly under spending on this research. Even just reading the Preface can be productive: New Structures for Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics) 2011th Edition by Bob Coecke (Editor)
I have always wondered if the brain is just a compiler, that has bootstrapped itself the way compilers normally do, the brain is a sophisticated compiler that translates language into thoughts. The primordial compiler being the parents initial language they build into kids by talking to them and associating concepts with physical objects to achieve critical mass in being creative. More than that, syntax and the physical world also ingrates logic into a brain, because the physical world, miraculously and mysteriously, is build at least on quantum logic (Category Theory & Topos). So parents teach language, nature teaches "logic". What does this have to do with Quantum Computing? I think people have been looking in the wrong place for QMs in the brain. We should not be looking in the brain itself, but in the flow of information in the fields it creates around the wet brain itself some very small distance away, beyond out current technology to detect just like our technology was unable to detect gravitational waves. Just like Superconductivity is a phenomenon whose effect is seen outside a supercooled magnet, so is consciousness a [posited] quantum effect seen right outside the brain, an extremely small distance away from it. Then it sustains itself in some way. Sleep is interesting because the normal flow of language is interrupted. I wonder what a sleep compiler (a compiler that compiles while at sleep? LOL) in computer science would do. So the brain is a classical neural net that is helped in search by subtle QM effects. [BTW, I don't understand how NP-Complete is amended, if at all, by Quantum Computation] All pure speculation of course.
One thing that is really strange is, why only us? Some language is acquired in utero! Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (MIT Press) by Robert C. Berwick (Author), Noam Chomsky (Author) If all it takes is QMs to create consciousness, surely an animals brain made of the same physics as a human brain achieves consciousness. Alternatively, an [non-human] animal brain certainly is capable also of build a complex neural net. What is it?
Amazing how this technology has advanced over the years. Back in 2003, I took a fourth year level course in Quantum Computing. I was seriously thinking about digging more deeply into this but quickly realized my progress in it depended on many physics and math courses I didn't have. That was a truly mind bending (likely beyond the capacity of my mind) course and one of the most enjoyable courses I took in my degree.