60 years since ...
It's been 60 years (59 if you're picky) since Richard Feynman told us that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Still true I think.
I certainly don't understand quantum, but one of the few things I might understand about quantum computing is:
-- About the only thing quantum computing can (currently) (possibly) (on really good days) do is superfast Fourier Transforms. And the only thing those SFFTs might be good for is cracking some forms of cryptography.
Can anyone who actually understands this stuff straighten me out? And, are only 5 bits -- even 5 super duper quantum bits -- likely to be good for much of anything?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
