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Quantum ASIC   An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is a special type of IC solely designed for a special purpose. One very important purpose is mining bitcoin. Mining bitcoin requires huge amounts of parallelization of tasks - breaking a task into many pieces, doing the task-pieces, then adding the finished pieces together - such as hashing and counting hash values. Checking to see which hash in the hash value set meets the nonce needs to be done quickly as well. Because every minute, every second, counts in the grand race to obtain, as of right now, 6.25BTC (worth more than $162,500) before 10 minutes are through.  Now research [1] into mining bitcoins with quantum computers has proven, theoretically, that the complexity for quantum search is O(sqrt N) where that for classical search using the most state-of-the-art ASICs can only go as low as O(N). To put it in figures. Given a list of 10,000 sha256 hashes whence the nonce is hiding.  A quantum computer nee...

 Hello Dear Reader, Sorry I am sort of doing a many worlds experiment with these blogs. Kind of annoying that I haven't really had these blogs collapse into a fascinating outcome. Wonder what will happen.  Guess there is only one way to find out. * * * When it comes to advancing a civilisation, two simple scales do the trick. The Kardashev scale says all you have to do is use more energy as a civilisation and the Barrow scale says brush up on your ability to manipulate as small a piece of matter as possible. In that regard, Quantum computing is a Barrow technology while Solar energy systems are a Kardashev technology. The Very Big and The Very Small. I do not know what put the idea in my head that I could play with things I could not do experiments on in a lab (you know, via meta ideas like apotheosis to a heaven-like world being powered by the hellish-like sun).  I'm sort of the phil...

  I think I was 16 when I first got introduced to Dan Brown’s books. Being a guy who loves to abstract, that was one game changer. The source code of my life was altered forever. And so I devoured Deception Point, Digital Fortress, The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Inferno, The Lost Symbol (this one has a special place in my heart), Origin.   Origin. Dan Brown’s latest novel. Just what we need for our case. Unlike the others, this one says a thing or two about Quantum Computing. The star of the tale is Edmond Kirsche. Like any respectable hero, his journey starts as early as possible, when he is barely a little man. Starts with a life changing moment that puts him on a path to loving computers above all else. Even above God. Interestingly, his mother was a devout Catholic, and so we must presume (since we do not want to offer spoilers) the hate towards religion was borne when something scarred the young ch...

First written 4 days ago for Dr. Frank Zickert  A n interesting idea occurred to me and I thought I should share it with you. It begins with me reading Stephen King's  The Institute  in which there are these kids who have superpowers - Telepathy, Telekinesis and Precognition. That is, mind-to-mind reading, control of objects at a distance, and telling the future perhaps months or even years in advance. (Interestingly, Stephen King also introduced to me the idea that writing-reading is a mind-to-mind telepathic process in his book  On Writing . Only that it takes months or years for the information to cross space-time from one mind to another, instead of seconds as real telepathy should work. This guy is really good I tell you). What stuck with me was precognition and  the way it seems to be possible to a limited extent based on specific contexts e.g. stock-price "forecasting" with mathematical ...

NB:  1- This blog post is a little complicated. Would be easier if you are a quantum computing nerd. 2- It was first written 3 days ago

2 days ago , I got another lead into the wonderland world of Quantum Machine Learning. This time, it starts with a piece of Dr. Frank Zickert's blog. “… “Estimates predict the quantum computing industry will be a $65 billion market by 2030 ” - Source:  https://towardsdatascience. com/do-i-need-a-ph-d-to-land- a-job-in-quantum-machine- learning-328aeea4a0c6 ) The Story of Average Guy There is a guy called the average guy. Mathematicians talk about him all the time. The average guy is many times whatever happens in set X divided by all the people in there. “something per person” => average guy. There are tons of statistics to pick from but we want to pick from the statistics on quantum computing predicting how much money the field will be worth soon. 65 billion dollars by 2030. That’s our bull’s eye. That’s the mark. We could hit over it, no problem. Currently, the quantum computing (qc) market is only worth about 0.5 billion dollars (reference -  https://www.globenewswire.co...