This sentence is shit, but I want to point out at least that "magic" is jargon for "well-behaved" or "particularly well-suited (for our application)". It's essentially "magic" like in the phrase "it works like magic".

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It does read like something Carl Segan might have said after smoking Gandalf's magic pipe weed.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, he was good at explaining things

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 17 points 2 weeks ago

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

They are using a new language called Gandalf ++

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm definitely gonna need a translation of this into something comprehensible to those of us that only understand classical computing. I get the evolution of binary and logic gates from mechanical computing, to vacuum tubes, to semiconductors, to nanometer miniaturized transistors. I understand (but could not possibly write) how machine language has increasing layers of complexity and eventually becomes human interpretable instructions. I understand shared cache and multiple cores and how that formed a generational leap over clock speed.

I have no idea what the fuck this article is talking about. At all.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I believe it when I see a quantum computer solving a real-world problem, and not just random quantum benchmarks.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait, is that sci-fi or fantasy?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It actually seems legit! How well this will scale to production and actual use is unclear though

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm going to be pissed if Black Mirror is right and quantum computers are magical reality rewriters

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think we can rule that out just by sheer reasoning. If this tech existed it would be discovered by another life forms already and we'd likely never exist. Unless we are first to being to discover such tech.

But either way thats not how quantum computers work even if we speculate in that direction.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or they don't know about us and we never figured in their rewriting.