glorified probability distribution machines
much like nuclear power is glorified steam power

Quantum computing tl;dr is instead of bits that are either 1 or 0, you perform computations with qubits that are mixtures of 1 and 0. This superposition phenomenon is the quantum part of the name.

Why is that good and gives you cool shit? Idk desu because it's not my field.

>>8068205
>hi I read about this in a popsci magazine once and now mindlessly repeat it like a parrot

>>8068205
Maybe we can finally solve if the if there's no one around to hear a tree fall question.

Could I use this to bruteforce WPA2 encryption? kek

>>8068213
Is it wrong? Did I say anything inaccurate? If so please tell me so I can have a better tl;dr for non-physicists. It's hard not to give a physics soundbite that doesn't sound like garbage from gizmodo.

Also I'll have you know I heard it while falling asleep in colloquium. I'm a PhD student in particle physics and tend to zone out if a talk isn't on particle/nuclear or mathematical physics.

OP here, I study chemistry.

If you could use it to model interactions with 5hT2A and B receptors that would be interested.

>>8068242
or alternatively, run a simulation of Muh dick

>>8068247
too big to run :v)

>>8068233
remember first order logic? remember stat 101 probability distributions

its literally first order logic souped up with probability distributions and clever shuffling of it

>>8068193
I care about one thing and one thing only, can it run quantum chemistry calculations faster than other computers?