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Perhaps its a bad article, but I can't see the value of solving the boson sampling problem by sampling bosons having any application in general computing.
by ew6082 6y ago
Perhaps its a bad article, but I can't see the value of solving the boson sampling problem by sampling bosons having any application in general computing.
- wyattpeak 6y agoIt depends how general you mean, I reckon. I don't know enough about physics to know how important boson sampling is, but simulating other systems in particle physics is already one of the big-ticket uses of supercomputers today.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoIt probably does not, though there are some proposals (such as generating certified random bits I think). But that is not relevant to the discussion here. A computational algorithm does not have to be useful generally, for it to prove a result about complexity classes.