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Time January 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Josh Witten, omega tau podcast. omega tau podcast said: Just published the episode on Quantum Computing with Martin Laforest: http://bit.ly/hNr9me Put your thinking caps on :-) [...]

Comment from baconholio
Time January 21, 2011 at 7:50 pm

Great Show. Really interesting topic.
As much as I enjoy aviation related episodes I do prefer this kind of episodes.

Also liked that you finally dropped the music.

Comment from admin
Time January 21, 2011 at 7:59 pm

hey, thanks for the quick feedback :-)

Markus

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Time February 2, 2011 at 9:44 pm

[...] Check out my first podcast and find out what I think about how quantum computing works, models of quantum computing, current and future uses and my take on the current state of the art. [...]

Comment from donmanguno
Time March 15, 2011 at 3:51 pm

Great show, as usual. MORE ENGLISH EPISODES, PLEASE! I’m a stupid, monolingual American!

Comment from admin
Time March 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm

I am working on it :-)
Markus

Comment from Ron Skinner
Time April 29, 2011 at 11:49 pm

I have to agree with an earlier comment that the shows are interesting, but seeings as I can only speak and read English, we need more English shows.
Thanks, Ron

Comment from admin
Time April 30, 2011 at 8:27 am

yeah, yeah, yeah :-) I will do more english stuff. Problem is this: I like to go and visit people and stuff. And for reasons of travel expenses and time, this is mostly in Germany. Hence the many episodes. Send me money, and I’ll go wherever you want me to go :-)

Comment from Geoffrey
Time September 27, 2012 at 5:20 am

Hi Markus,

Just back from a long walk. Listened to your podcast on quantum computing. There were interesting concepts. Very complicated. Had to take some notes.

Martin said clearly it’s early days for quantum computing. Seems we are still at the embryonic stage. Not even at the ENIAC valve and pre-memory accumulator level. My gut-feeling is that quantum computing will use fuzzy logic rather than digital. The statistical nature and mathematical models seem to be heading that way. If it turns out to be digital then I can see it being on a higher level with the microcode of the firmware using fuzzy logic set of operations.

When Martin talked about possible breakthroughs using Shor’s algorithm and molecular modelling to achieve superconductivity at room temperatures I can see the effort being worthwhile. No doubt, when quantum computing gets off the ground, so to speak, it will be used to accelerate its own development. Look at flight.

I am a little concerned about Martin’s enthusiasm about sensing. A quantum computer that can sense has the potential to develop self-awareness and consciousness; and I don’t mean just passing a Turing test. Look at what happened to HAL in 2001; not to mention Terminator.

As far as music is concerned, I found the interludes refreshing. I’ll go along with the majority though.

Keep churning out the interesting talks.

Regards,
Geoffrey

PS: Any chance of doing a talk on supersymmetry?

Comment from MaNo
Time September 28, 2012 at 6:07 pm

Sure, supersymmetry is on the list, but not anytime soon.

Cheers,
Markus

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