Monday, May 10, 2004

And you thought "new math" was hard

Oy. I just got a junk e-mail regarding quantum computation. It's completely inscrutable--poor grammar and spelling, which makes the already difficult concepts he's trying to explain even more incomprehensible.

The idea seems interesting enough--compress data signals by using two-dimensional matrix operations. However, the actual execution seems to incorporate some difficulties that would make it difficult to undo. [The fundamental law of data compression, as I often find in the course of my own work: compressing the data is easy; decompressing it is a real pain in the rear end.]

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