Grover's algorithm is really kind of magical. For some reason it strikes me as such even more so than Shor's. For the time being, I still find Aaronson's arguments about why quantum computers probably won't solve NP pretty compelling, but I sympathize with those that think otherwise, even out of ignorance. It's hard not to have your intuitions jolted around a bit by such phenomena. This right here, to me, as a computer scientist, is the more interesting weird mystery of quantum stuff. By contrast, I've long since given up and pretty much accepted Many-Worlds in my heart, and so all the paradoxes of measurement and so forth are just meh.
Grover's algorithm is really kind of magical. For some reason it strikes me as such even more so than Shor's. For the time being, I still find Aaronson's arguments about why quantum computers probably won't solve NP pretty compelling, but I sympathize with those that think otherwise, even out of ignorance. It's hard not to have your intuitions jolted around a bit by such phenomena. This right here, to me, as a computer scientist, is the more interesting weird mystery of quantum stuff. By contrast, I've long since given up and pretty much accepted Many-Worlds in my heart, and so all the paradoxes of measurement and so forth are just meh.
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