alt Hacker NewsCan anyone give the next layer of detail here? I understand the implications of this analogy, but looking for the underlying reasons the analogy is apt.
Can anyone give the next layer of detail here? I understand the implications of this analogy, but looking for the underlying reasons the analogy is apt.
AIUI, the scientists achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction around 1943. That was the hard part, not even a small bomb yet, but a bomb just needed more fuel and scale.
Fault tolerance is the hard part for QC, once it's achieved, the difference between factoring 35 and RSA-2048 is an engineering challenge, not an impossibility.