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  • It’s a way to infer the data without having to create some human engineered and fragile detection method.

    The problem of dealing with unreliable signal transmission (i.e. a CNN’s error rate at inferring the data based on their imaging) is well explored. A CNN that fails to correctly read some measurable percentage of time is not much different than a wireless data transmission on a noisy channel.

    You solve the problem by encoding the signal so that you can check the data as it comes in to discover and correct for errors. A simple example would be writing the data 3 times so that you could compare the inference on each of the 3 places where the data is written. Modern error checking algorithms can do a lot better than this, space-wise.

    CNNs can be trained to have a very high accuracy rate on these kinds of image recognition tasks (especially with a limited symbol set) and they can tune their error correction around the CNN’s error rates so the net result would be a clean and error check and corrected output.

    Not to mention that CNNs may not be required of future persons with better imaging technology.

















  • Quantum cryptosystems don’t move data faster than light but the payload is ‘teleported’ as in the data isn’t sent over the connection.

    The entangled states are sent in such a way that when combined with previously transmitted qbits and sampled, the data appears at the receiving end without it ever going through the intermediary (a bit of handwavery because nobody actually understands quantum mechanics, especially physicists.

    It is teleportation but not in a way that is FTL, all of the components of the data transmission obey the laws of physics… we just live in a world where the laws of physics allow for some weird and unintuitive shit.

    You’re not wrong in that the connection’s security is absolute, any attempt by an attacker to read the data would disrupt the entangled states in unexpected ways which will result in an essentially random output. So if you’re getting data through the link then you know 100% that it is not being intercepted. It isn’t possible to copy quantum states for spooky physics reasons, so there is no such thing as a quantum wire tap.