Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services

It's fascinating how we've come full circle in computing and we're back to booking compute time and putting jobs in a queue to run on a big shared machine again. My Dad used to tell me about how he'd have to wait to run things on the DEC machines where he worked in '70s, wait for the output to print out, and debug his code by hand before he could run it again. No doubt writing software to run on Amazon Braket would be a pretty similar process if it weren't for the simulators.

I think there's a lot of interesting optimization problems that this could lend weight to. There's a lot of small-ish manufacturers out there pushing the limits of materials science, where being able to leverage quantum computing could be a real advantage.

That said, I'm also curious what this means for attacks against cryptosystems -- something tells me that anything that wasn't secure against various quantum attacks either is, or will shortly be, blown wide open.

Is it AWS new product season again?

So now the only thing stopping me from programming a quantum computer is thinking of any damned thing to do with it. Innovative new ways to feel ineffectual!

Someone have a good reference or primer on quantum computing?

I thought it just mean faster hardware, but they talk about specifically designing quantum algorithms.

The video was hilarious.