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Originally Posted by mjohnson
Likely.
I had a room in the basement of a building in Los Alamos just a few dozen feet from their early quantum thingy. This was 6 years ago but I remember that it was the noisiest computer I'd ever heard. To support the fancy bits, mostly fitting in a 5 gal bucket, hundreds of sq ft of cryo gear was required, popping, hissing and whirring like a steam engine.
What to do with it? I dunno. I only dumb engineer. I no make code. I break code...
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I helped a few physicists with material design for little (quantum) cubes that could be ran in series. Essentially lowered the cost 10 fold over off the shelf units. I joked with the engineers, as i would call them a “doomsday device”. Quantum computing is cool science, but as you mentioned, we’re going to see one outside a NL or a giant research facility.