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I am going to keep using it until everybody calls quantum computers “quamputers.” Anyway, I saw a headline on Discovery News that got me super excited! They wrote that, “An insanely impossible problem is becoming just merely difficult.” The gist of the article is that scientists are getting closer to building working quantum computers (someone tell their editor that the correct term is “quamputers” and that such computers could process a decade of complex information in less than a day.
I know I keep harping on this, but quamputers (see what I did there) will change everything – and I mean everything – we do. I’ll spin this to a marketing slant. There was an excellent article in New York Times Magazine this Sunday about, essentially, data mining. Imagine the correlations and deep data mining that could be accomplished using a quamputer. I’m one of those guys – it’s part of what I do for clients – and I can tell you that statistical modeling isn’t that easy. I use a state-of-the-art computer with quad core processors and max memory and it still takes me forever to churn data. More powerful machines mean faster-to-market strategies.
Anyway, my dream of having a quamputer (I’m going to keep pushing it) is getting ever closer.
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