Agreed. I have some technical understanding of SLC’s advantages, but why would I choose it over QLC? My file system has checksums on data and metadata, my backup strategy is solid, my SSD is powered most days, and before it dies I’ll probably upgrade my computer for other reasons.
I know a couple of quantum software engineers and these people are in universities writing novel algorithms on whiteboards (and sometimes testing them out in QuPy).
As I understand it Quantum algorithms are very much needed as the hardware improves. The hardware gets shown off, but there aren't a lot of algorithms that can take advantage of it if it worked better. Yet.
As I understand it, the hardware very much lags behind the algorithms. We have plenty of cool algorithms to run on quantum computers, but to be practically interesting they all need more qubits or better coherence times than is available today.
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