Re: To the believers and would-be investors in Quantum Computing / D-Wave
Oh well, that should be pretty easy to test.
Yes, if they weren't so secretive about exactly is inside the shielded black-box and its capabilities - not to mention the claims that it utilizes a much-hyped "future tech" that has fundamental physical limitations in scalability beyond rudimentary proof of concept experiments. As it stands, it's got all the earmarks of a type of scam that's as old as the hills.Did u read & understand my post?
It would give them credibility if they could provide solutions to intractable problems or give the factors of RSA-2048, but they've done nothing of the sort and in fact avoid saying it will do anything specific. They make only vague statements about using it for "business solutions" but not a word about what sort of processes it can handle "out of the box" (so to speak) - or even that it will run any processes at all.
That's like asking people who climb mountains to climb the highest mountain on mars. They are claiming that they did climb the highest mountain didn't they? A complete fraud!!!
What you are asking is simply even beyond the theoretical capabilities.
Don't ask me what kind of applications they have in mind, but if you are really interested (or really skeptical for that matter) I'm sure the information is out there.