Would love to hear your thoughts on this, @conorp (and a note to @t that Conor is in SF this weekend! You should meet up, he's staying with @cvigoe)
From reading some Nielsen I thought the chemistry angle was promising, this has updated me downwards on that, but does raise the interesting idea of a "chemical computer". If quantum computing is good at chemistry because it represents the physics much better, why not actually do it? Effectively just asking the question of how tight could you make the current drug testing pipeline? @cvigoe I know you did some fun stuff in the area, curious for your thoughts too!
Agreed that standard optimization seems like the weakest use case (bar QML), especially given the relative improvements elsewhere (standard computing, AI, etc.).
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From reading some Nielsen I thought the chemistry angle was promising, this has updated me downwards on that, but does raise the interesting idea of a "chemical computer". If quantum computing is good at chemistry because it represents the physics much better, why not actually do it? Effectively just asking the question of how tight could you make the current drug testing pipeline? @cvigoe I know you did some fun stuff in the area, curious for your thoughts too!
Agreed that standard optimization seems like the weakest use case (bar QML), especially given the relative improvements elsewhere (standard computing, AI, etc.).