It feels like 6 months ago, I couldn’t go a few hours without being exposed to some new wild claims from Microsoft or Google, or any of the other companies working on this. Lately nothing comes up in any of my feeds.

    • Eq0@literature.cafe
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      5 days ago

      That’s exactly the section of math loosing their mind on the topic 😂

      There is still quite a divide between the needed computational power and the available one, though.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      There is a proposed Shor’s Algorithm. To use a sloppy analogy, this arrangement would be the equivalent to fully planning out a trip to the center of the Earth, just waiting for the digging machine to be done and we’re groovy.

      Worth a read; Emphasis mine:

      …quantum algorithm for finding the prime factors of an integer. It was developed in 1994 by the American mathematician Peter Shor

      …It is one of the few known quantum algorithms with compelling potential applications

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