The Story of Shor's Algorithm, Straight From the Source | Peter Shor 

why "sore"? Surely sore's o'er a negativity shore of sorts.

you knowing that you understand exactly 0.001 % that also shows that you got the depth of everything points

somehow i think we arent actually supposed to know how to make a doom machine computer... its just TOO DANGEROUS!!!

and that’s beautiful

Ah, you should have added a minus sign, that would have been epic if you understood exactly -0.001% ;-D

You watch something like this and think "I know what that word means" and "I know what that other word means" and then they get put together in a sentence and you think "Wait! WTF?" MIght as well be selling turboencabulators.

50 years? Shor's Algorithm was invented in 1994, and the first quantum computer was created in 1998. Am I misunderstanding your comment?

​@@gamestarz2001 Not Shor's in particular, I mean all the work leading up to it (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing_and_communication). But yeah probably 30 is more accurate than 50

@@gamestarz2001 Because Feynman and others came up with the idea of Quantum Computing in the early 1980's. So the work started many years before any actual test computer was created. Still at this point we are not near a "Real" working Quantum Computer.

Euler solved problems in number theory that came to use only 200 years later

When scientists were exploring nuclear physics situations arose wherein the scientists would say "We'll leave the exact answer to this to the future when better computers will be built."

nah that’s literally the minimum they should do

I dunno man. Having seen many comments like yours on the more technical detail oriented stuff I watch. I think RU-vid's algorithm is wonking out again. It does this, waves of poor decisions like a repeating puberty phase. Usually they are right after a week or two of amazingly good choices that are effective at keeping you hooked. I can never trust YT's algorithm, even when it is working well because of that behavior.

i ooo

Could you explain your comment. It sounds very arrogant.

Nah, we just happened to be in a right world out of manyworlds

Is it real?

@@sambhavgupta4653 What *what* real?

Hahaha! Would you like to comb your hair before you go on camera? I can't! My glasses will fall off!

He was probably advised to do this by the media crew. It's a common trick to reduce glare on the lenses when being filmed with strong lighting.

What a Savage lol

@@duncanjones3753 they also work slightly better when slanted

i hope he is alive to see these things develop

Why do you say that?

To be sure, 2B Shor 😏

Genius? Lol, fattie put a mask on, lolololol.

if

lmao

i wouldn't be surprised if the NSA asks him for help from time to time ! All smart people in the world work for important institutions !

Definitely not Jesus - he's prolly jewish.

That's something people like this seem to have in common. It makes you think that some of it has to be access to these other great minds. I wonder how many people like Shor and Feynman over the years had to spend their life doing menial work because they had no access to education systems. Or how many there might be out there still today. People like Feynman probably come along quite rarely, but still almost all of them have probably spent their life in hunter gatherer tribes, tolling the fields, in wars and other conflicts, etc. And even in the present day likely stuck in third world countries doing odd jobs, or even in the USA stuck in some backwater town because of childhood problems or other issues like drug addiction.

@@lost4468yt NO THATS MY BIGGEST FEAR!!!! the many people who we never hear about, whose journals we never find but pondered the universe in some sort of isolation. The saying goes steel sharpens steel and the company you keep so I would AGREE 100% it is access to those minds think about the Einstein Bohr debates not as much fun with only one of them. Thats for me what's beautiful about fundamental thinking and logic at the core of every subject ( A note is almost all great minds had multiple areas of interest Maxwell came up with those equations with his spare time!) Beauty: is the construction of fundamental reasoning that leads multiple agents to the same or similar conclusion independently. Something I feel is missing from the current system. I hope we can allow our great minds the room to find themselves or their source codes. the one constant for me with all these minds is a deep conviction in something that LITERALLY CANNOT BE SEEN! if anything that deepens the conviction; today we think we know too much to be true.

And Vazirani

@@lost4468yt you are goddamn right

These discoveries are information coalescence, non local.

@@landspide I’m not sure what you mean, can you explain?

​@@loganclark3642Just something I noticed... It seems like information itself tends to coalesce. Like with 'inventors' just being in the right place at the right time making major discoveries almost simultaneously, more than just the march of progress would suggest. I have also noticed it in a few places like obtuse bugs manifesting in complex software at exactly the same time, opposite ends of the earth, with completely different originating paths, operating systems, local variables and run times. Also with divergent/derived codebases, with completely different and unrelated triggers that just seem to align with the planets (akin to chaos, but convergent from chaos - somehow they just trigger simultaneously when the conditions are right). Might be just woo woo too ;P lol.

Well On Track With your Observation Andy : he is "Seeing the Future " [ Flipping It In a Quantum Sense ] His Modesty falls Short of self denial ; Occassionally in his Thought Processes - at Times There is a Wondrous Acceptance of this New Door he has opened - Thats why His Script - The Law unto the Q Bit - Algorythm - is Tightly Clutched ...Check out How J.S.Bach Held his Discoveries in music... I like the Story !

Well , I’m envious of these great minds and their world -bending capabilities…. Do you think these are learned or are innate?

If the Joker pursued a math career

Looks? You're talking about looks? This is intellectual property. Let's not be so shallow.

@@jamesbentonticer4706 it's not property--it's ideas

Is he the same guy as in the Back to the Future movies?

He says he discovered it, not invented it.

thanks Blake, updated.

@@qiskit Glad to help in my little way! :-)

You are from the future ?

i really appreciate this as someone who has to use captions!

Moreover, at 26:25 Peter Shor talks about "the better error *correcting* codes", not "cracking codes".

Most geniuses are also ignorant. They are usually a Genius in a certain field, talent, etc.. but choose to ignore most everything else in the real world.

@@bjh1 that’s the cost of being a genius

@@bjh1 People like him spend essentially their entire life exploring their field and there isn't much time/brainpower left to care about other stuff 😅

@@bjh1 cope

@@redxxiv739 cope

What do you know about qiskit two years later?

@@GregoryEsman lol. Not much. The algorithm got to me I think. I tried to follow along with it for a couple of months and then nothing. Thanks for the reminder.

Awesome, thank you!

Me too in case I Might understand just one thing, but I feel smarter anyways!

Well said. 30 mins just disappeared. I feel like I’ve learnt something, but don’t ask me to repeat it.

My goal is to one day understand every word

,,, pretty close to my own experimence,, goodthing th' xppx s re-=+chargeable ...

theoretical science is a contradiction of terms.

@@evolutionCEO Not really. Theory has a completely different meaning in that context. The common meaning is closer to: the question leading up to forming a hypothesis.

@@mrnobody2873 a question is a question and a theory is a theory. you seem to be having a hard time with this simple truth...

@@evolutionCEO not really. Math and science have technical definitions that differ from common usage. Law has its own definitions on top of those. You need the right one in the right context or people will think you are simple.

@@mrnobody2873 these people that might think me simple, are they theoretical scientists??? ;D. law, the fundamental principles and processes of the universe. Law (capital L) = a name for something that isn't law. If science is not the study of law, then science is the manipulation of fiction. so what science are you talking about?

No because most papers are completely useless 😅

It’s common for people with Asperger’s. Same with Elon Mask.

It's important because a big part of cryptographic security all around the world relies on the fact that it is quite fast and easy to multiply two big numbers p and q to get r, but insanely hard to retrieve p and q if you're only given r. Shor's algorithm can provide such a prime factors decomposition efficiently. Part of the algorithm runs on a quantum computer, hence the speedup.

@@tzimmermann ty! I kind of understand lol. I think if I'm exposed to this more it would be clear. But your explanation helps!! I conclude that this probably helps Bitcoin n cryptocurrencies that I just learned about which is why this showed on my YT feed.

@@tzimmermann Thanks for the explanation. It actually makes it a lot clear. I'll look into it more.

…and eventually destroy human civilization

einstein, monet, dirac, all probably had characteristics you might consider unusual. just proves how stupid the rest of us are worrying about shit like that while these guys ignore us and genius on.

Are you Shor about that?

@@swedishancap3672 lmao

i have seen him blink, but i had to watch and focus for 2 minutes before he did. this is an interesting observation James, im impressed you noticed this

Neither did that guy Charlie Bennet, Umesh Vazirani, Rolf Landauer or Asher Peres blink one time

Almost every homeless person I ever met has been a normal, average person, without any ticks, eye movements or 'crazy overtones'.

@@nagualdesign come to NY. We got bagels and mental health issues.

@@doit9854 In the UK we have the NHS to deal with mental health problems, but other issues that lead to homelessness aren't so well supported. In fact you're more likely to suffer from mental illness _due to_ destitution than the other way around. We do have bagels though.

@@nagualdesign Your bagels probably suck terribly...

Still, I know which point he is trying to make. I don't think this gentleman has any chance whatsoever to flourish in a regular dog-eats-dog work environment. At the risk of being completely misunderstood I think that most people with his particular brain configuration, almost all of them will end up cleaning offices with a smudgy paperback of Tolstoy in their pocket.

Evolution doesn't necessarily always reward intelligence. Without any natural predator within the herd, it simply benefits to those who reproduce the most, which makes intelligence people endangered species.