What would you do if you had a quantum computer?

[Smuff]

Seriously though, if I had a quantum computer I would sell it and use the money to travel and enjoy myself. I certainly wouldn't remain glued to a screen.

 

[BORTZ]

Be really confused as to how it works, tear it apart and figure it out. The problem is that I would change how it works by observing the process, and I would only get more confused.

 

[Margen67]

I would use it for Cemu, Xenia, RPCS3, and xqemu. Also playing Batman: Arkham Knight and GTA 4 at a playable framerate

 

[Tigran]

WoW of course!

 

[LawnMeower]

minesweeper

 

[DinohScene]

Bioshock infinite.

Ultra HD mod, upgraded models, textures n what not.

 

[Depravo]

I don't know. Look at Facebook and watch Youtube videos I suppose.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

Pong with graphics set to ultra

 

[raystriker]

I'd give it an AI and make him Ultron :3

 

[FAST6191]

Encryption/Shor's algorithm would be my starting point, I am sure I could find a practical use for one of the fields I otherwise play in (probably some decent atomic modelling) but right now my knowledge and thus imagination is limited to the crypto stuff. However a great man once said "I shall use this power to annoy" and that sounds like a better plan than something that would get me arrested, though that might be difficult as I am not sure what the laws might be here.

That said even with a quantum computer you still need some decent conventional computing to make sense of what it spits out so it would probably be like if I otherwise got a supercomputer -- it would be cool and mere ownership would allow me to sleep well at night but the electricity required to power it would be the stumbling factor.

 

[spinal_cord]

Check my emails, read a couple of forum posts.

 

[magypsy3]

Wow in theory if someones get a quantum computer in home, it can be used to decrypt and find keys for everything that has not been prepared with new kinds of encryption, right?

Just imagine if this was the case, all consoles pwned!!

 

[Cyan]

well, depends what it can do and can be used for.

artificial intelligence development, sandboxed accelerated life development environment emulation with only physic laws as parameters?
motor & propulsion development? combustion motors are archaic and old (100+ years old).

 

[Veho]

Protein folding calculations and modelling.

Meteorological and weather modelling and prediction.

Running the three body problem as a screen saver.

Run Crysis at high settings

(Is that still a thing? I am old.)

 

[bannana2]

Try to make cancer drugs with zero side effects and begin trying to analyze data from the LHC.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Seeing how quantum computers are only good at specialized tasks that are, essentially, useless to myself...

Sell it and buy a real PC ;O;

 

[bannana2]

Protein folding calculations and modelling.

Meteorological and weather modelling and prediction.

Running the three body problem as a screen saver.

Run Crysis at high settings

(Is that still a thing? I am old.)

I'm betting a good quantum annealing machine could make meteorology a hard science. Now, wouldn't it be pretty awesome if the weather man/woman was right almost every single time.

 

[nxwing]

what would you do that you can't do with an average computer though

Make your own 3D UHD 8k pr0n at the fastest frame rate possible

 

[GalladeGuy]

Crack NX encryption keys and make a kexploit. BEFORE IT EVEN HAS A REAL NAME!!

Then make this face:

 

[RustInPeace]

Download porn.