Quantum Conundrum

Quantum Conundrum

As we traveled north, approaching the Winter Wonderland of the original colonies, picking up people, deploying kill bunkers along the way... I stared at a notification I pulled up.



> You learned how to Replicate IBM Falcon r1 (R) 28 qubits processor.



They were definitely shitting me. If nanometric silicon circuits shortened because of magic, how the fuck would a quantum computer work? The answer was, "no fucking way". Something was happening here. Never mind the fact I didn't have the software to run this thing or that I couldn't combine processors. Two 28 qubits machines didn't make a 56 one.

Forget this computer replica, how did all of quantum mechanics work under magic? The matter still existed and electricity was still very much a thing but what about other things? Quarks, subatomic particles, and so on?

Perhaps ditching the Perk that allowed me to see the microscopic circuits was a mistake. I disassembled one of these and only found a sandwich of metal plates that were supposed to become superconductive when as close to zero Kelvin as humanly possible.

I had the schematic for a quantum computer. It was an upside-down steampunk wedding cake with hundreds of tubes of cryogenic fluids that would work in stages to bring the processor to the required temperature.

I searched the GitHub projects for those involving Quantum computing. After I earmarked some for later use, I tried to see if NASA had a finger in that pie. Boy, oh, boy. NASA didn't disappoint. They had a whole lab dedicated to it. They had a partnership with Google and other tech companies to push this frontier further. Called the QuAIL lab, they were interested in modeling A.I. software using quantum computers to emulate the neural networks used in deep learning. The time necessary to train the A.I. model could, theoretically, be cut down by orders of magnitude [1].

I had all of their white papers and research notes. The lab worked with other aspects of quantum computing but the A.I. projects drew my attention the most.

After I sank two weeks into reading and testing some prototypes, I noticed the quantum processors I was using were also magical imitations of the real thing. Many of the surfaces inside the processor had some lines and glyphs I've seen Enchanters use. I should take an enchanter sub-Class next. Didn't I have one Legendary that was about that? Yeah. That was the one unless something better happened in between.

Following the documentation I had, I created one such quantum computer, using my Dungeon powers to isolate the machine with a layer of vacuum. The cooling coils needed heavy isotopes of Helium, which I could source with but a thought. It used a normal computer to interface with the quantum one and it had a whole new programming language to translate the normal program instructions into quantum machine instructions.

I'm going to use the word quantum a lot. Get ready for it.

Another month passed by as I tested and played with five hundred quantum computers at the same time, each running different experiments. I reckon humans would have trouble getting that kind of technological park working but for me, it was all a matter of spending the DM to make another machine. Though expensive, my DM regeneration was off the charts.

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> To evolve your species, you need to rescue 4,000,000 humans and keep them safe from harm for 1 year. No time limit.

> Current tally: 356,491 / 4,000,000



I had doubled the number of inhabitants living in my Inner Realm and around fifty thousand people remained on the surface, sheltered in my weaponized enclaves. Organic growth was always a choice. With the proper incentives and based on population data, I was able to collate, I could make my humans grow at a 6% per annum rate. That would mean I could double my population every 12 years. 712 thousand in 12 years, 1.4 million in 24 years, 2.8 million in 36 years, and the quest would be complete in forty-one years, one hundred and seventy-nine days, twenty hours, and fifty-four minutes. Give or take a few births and deaths.

Who got that kind of time lying around? Not this immortal God-Dungeon, let me tell you. I increased the throttle on the land train. Sensors along the coupling joints relayed the relative speed of each wagon to their CPU units. The CPU units negotiated and started the acceleration process, speeding up the rear slightly sooner than the front.

We would stop by the former capital of this ruined country, then go north to check if the city that never sleeps had kept its eyes open in the Apocalypse.

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With the new processors, better and faster computers became available. The people of Speranza were asked to turn in their old computers and get new touchscreen tablet PCs. They ran on a fork of Android I got from the GitHub repositories and were faster, better, and didn't have the bulky keyboard the other model had. They were also all 4G ready and I wanted to switch everyone to the cell network, leaving the DAN connection strictly for government use. My use.

I also started on the upgrade to Bricks Windows. The next-gen spider mecha had lower reaction times, faster actuators, and better protection due to our live-fire test on the units we wrecked along the way, and it also could turn around faster. This was crucial in fast-paced combat. I placed the legs in a circular base, with a wider range of movement. The torso could spin freely over the leg base (in some cases one leg or two need to be lower to let the bulk move past).

That would allow the spider Mecha to turn in a different direction without burning jump jet fuel or doing complicated turn maneuvers. The weapons had independent targeting computers that would aid in aiming and lessen the strain on Dungeon Automation. I had so many things going on at once that I was afraid of one day running out of slots for automated tasks.

I named my new Mecha "Bricks Swing Windows".



> For creating level 185 (Epic) Spider Giant Mecha "Bickering Widow", you gained 1,538 Experience.



Great! Now I knew how to make the System spell "Widow" correctly.

[1]: This paragraph is entirely true IRL.