{"id":57280,"date":"2017-05-10T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/quantum-computing-demands-a-whole-new-kind-of-programmer"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:10:49","slug":"quantum-computing-demands-a-whole-new-kind-of-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/quantum-computing-demands-a-whole-new-kind-of-programmer","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Demands a Whole New Kind of Programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-demands-a-whole-new-kind-of-programmer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers finally seem to be coming of age with promises of \u201cquantum supremacy\u201d by the end of the year. But there\u2019s a problem\u2014very few people know how to work them.<\/p>\n<p>The bold claim of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/604242\/googles-new-chip-is-a-stepping-stone-to-quantum-computing-supremacy\/\">achieving \u201cquantum supremacy\u201d<\/a> came on the back of Google unveiling a new quantum chip design. The hyperbolic phrase essentially means building a quantum device that can perform a calculation impossible for any conventional computer.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, quantum computers can crush conventional ones at important tasks like factoring large numbers. That\u2019s because unlike normal computers, whose bits can either be represented as 0 or 1, a quantum bit\u2014or \u201cqubit\u201d\u2014can be simultaneously 0 and 1 thanks to a phenomenon known as superposition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/09\/quantum-computing-demands-a-whole-new-kind-of-programmer\/?utm_content=bufferc6401&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-su&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/09\/quantum-computing-dema...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers finally seem to be coming of age with promises of \u201cquantum supremacy\u201d by the end of the year. But there\u2019s a problem\u2014very few people know how to work them. The bold claim of achieving \u201cquantum supremacy\u201d came on the back of Google unveiling a new quantum chip design. The hyperbolic phrase essentially means [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}