More Information about Quantum Computing

The thing is, we don't know what we don't know, but we do know that quantum computing will probably enable us to push beyond what is known to that which has not been imagined...

https://singularityhub.com/2019/03/17/finally-proof-that-quantum-computing-can-boost-machine-learning/#sm.0001l7cfoprgwf9syuq11n1x07fm9

I believe the hopes of quantum computing results are a God Complex manifestation that will ultimately fail.

I don't see how they can fail, per se..the results may be misinterpreted...Is that the equivalent of saying the operation was a success, but the patient died...It seems to me that the whole idea of computers is built on trial and error efforts over the years...I just see this as a more powerful computer....We can already see problems with computer modelling and the problem with inherit data bias, not to mention manipulation...no I think a tool is only as useful as the user is skilled at producing desired results...what I see is a user looking at the results of a model and saying look it's the truth, when all he is looking at is an interpretation of his own opinion....and opinion is not necessarily fact.... That's why you can't predict the future, you don't have all the data...things change...

IBM has a site where you can learn about quantum computer programming and actually try out a program on either a simulator or an actual quantum computer. Quantum computer programming is totally unlike classical computer programming.

https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/learn/what-is-quantum-computing/

My point of bringing the Tim Harford TED Talk was that iterated, trial and error design is already quantum computing. But quantum computing without the use of an intermediate model. If the enormously complicated problem one wishes to investigate mandates the use of a model (cosmology, international finance, drug efficacy on a mutated disease, weather forecasting, etc.) then subjecting the model into a quantum computer is the only way to go. But always keep in mind the quote attributed to George Box:

"All models are wrong but some are useful."

This latter nuance of the model concept is particularly important when it comes to my apprehension of quantum computing. When one has a system so complicated that only quantum computing can attempt to solve it then one can never be sure if the selected model is useful. The quantum computer will always achieve an answer, it just may not be relevant.

Quantum computer will be used exclusively for complex research and development calculations. It will never become a commodity for the mass consumer market.

That's exactly what was said about digital computers sixty years ago. Now, look at what is under your fingers.