• ceasarlegsvin
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    1156 months ago
    • run a speed test on my quantum computer so I know how fast it’s running

    • it vanishes without a trace

  • @graham1
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    506 months ago

    QPU*

    well it was a QPU before being observed

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      86 months ago

      QPU is a legit name for Quad Processing Unit, which is used as shaders in Broadcom’s Videocore line of products.

  • MxM111
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    356 months ago

    Well, your quantum twin observed the opposite. Be glad for him.

  • r00ty
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    216 months ago

    This would only happen if you tried to delid the quantum CPU. So, not only is it bricked, but you also voided the warranty!

  • Hjalmar
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    186 months ago

    The trick is to not observe it but to simply glance over it as if you didn’t give a f*ck about it and pretend like your simply trying to avoid walking into it. Look right at it and you may hurt it’s feelings causing it to brick itself

    THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HANDLING A QUANTUM COMPUTER. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY HARM THAT YOU MAY CAUSE TO YOURSELF OR THE SPACE TIME AROUND. QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE DANGEROUS AND HURTING THERE FEELINGS MAY CAUSE IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION OF THE SPACETIME AROUND THEM.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      That’ll be bout treefiddy, and if you change your mind and decide you do want the electron gun eyeball treatment…another treefiddy

  • @[email protected]
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    96 months ago

    I’ve never understood what counts as ‘observing’ in this context… Just looking at the thing, perhaps with some kind of microscope/tool? Does it have to be a person who observes it? How about a dog? Or a paramecium?

    I think I’m missing some important piece to this.

    • Cethin
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      It’s any interaction that counts. That could be with your eye, but it’s usually with any other particle that needs to know the position of another. That could be part of a measuring device, or anything else. If information is needed to “do physics” with it then the waveform collapses so the interaction can be performed.

      It has absolutely nothing to do with consciousness.

    • @voldage
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      36 months ago

      I might be talking out of my ass a bit, but if I remember it correctly the “observer” part was about it being impossible to measure velocity and observe a location of a thing (electron, photon etc. I think) at the same point in time. I don’t think it actually had an effect on the particle, i remember there were some bad experiments where the measurement influenced the the thing because the measurement itself like taking a photo or whatever they did was enough to disturb… stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        96 months ago

        It’s because in order to measure it you need to see it. If you can see it then light is bouncing off it it and these particles are so small that the energy of a photon bouncing off of it will move it.