The gate here is really cool, I remember from my optical classes all the different ways to encode bits on a photon over fiber, I am curious which properties are more and less suitable for this application.
Well, good luck. When I studied computer science 25 years ago, none of this was even a thing, lol. I think this is all amazaballs!
Me in high school computers class:
Hey Teach, I get how code logic flows, but if computers are just bunches of transistors and transistors are just switches, how does any of this actually run or work?
You know, I don’t actually know, I only ever learned coding…
* 3 years of electrical and computer engineering Later *
Huh, those are the most wildly complicated and impressive things ever built, thank god I finally got a grasp on it.
* 1 year of quantum and optical computing later *
quiet sobbing
Optical computing won’t change anything. The compiler takes care of it.
Even quantum computing basically works just like a GPU. You give it an algorithm and data to retrieve the result a bit later. Someone will make a quantum equivalent of CUDA before commercialization.
It doesn’t really matter, it’s not enough for me to just black box it and say the compiler will handle it, I want to have a rough idea of how every part of the stack works, otherwise I’m right back to high school.
it could make our current computing technology exponentially more efficient, thus reducing the global power consumption of our data-driven society.
That’s a bold lie. Jevons paradox will apply and the first thing that will happen is building more AI data centers and crypto mining.