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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Did they disentangle their superpositions? I know I hate it when that happens to me.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Often it happens with me and your mom

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh you found her? If she's alive tell her I don't care as and if she's dead then just get professional help because bruh.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

What if we just keep her in a box and never actually conclusively check to see if she is dead or not?

I could save on therapy that way I guess.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I've gotta advise against collapsing that wave function.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Generating three random bits.. Saved you a click

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Incredible, the future is now

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

interesting read! I still havent had a reason to play with quantum computing. This article makes it seem less challenging to approach, maybe ill give it a try sometime.

The number labels of the x-axis represent the different answers from the magic 8-ball in the following order: “Yes” (001), “Not today” (001), “Definitely” (010), “Try again” (011), “Signs point to yes” (100), “Not likely” (101), “Sure thing!” (110), and “Outlook not so good” (111).

Assuming this is a mistype? Yes and Not Today are both “001”. Should “Yes” actually be “000” (which is the label used on the graph above this paragraph

Since it's IBM sponsored/supported they probably didn't want to tell the reader that you can simulate a quantum computer on classical hardware. So no need to use their service to use "the real" thing.