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by t_mann
1382 days ago
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> nothing shows that it has open-ended potential to revolutionize computation Well, we do know that P <= BQP <= PSCPACE, and we have one important example that lies in BQP but not in P (for all we know). It's just not clear how important that particular example is for the kind of computing we do today, if it ever becomes practical. It looks like it'd rather result in a one-time nuisance for sysadmins, like Y2K was. The hope was for applications in new areas like materials and drug design. The author has posted a link to one paper suggesting that we might not see exponential speedups in chemical simulations, but that's not an outright refutation either. |
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