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Indeed, someone spends what AFAICT is a very small amount of his time debunking every last claim that any given quantum computer does anything straightforward s
by moomin 9y ago
Indeed, someone spends what AFAICT is a very small amount of his time debunking every last claim that any given quantum computer does anything straightforward simulated annealing can't do.
- ZanyProgrammer 9y agoScott Aaronson?
- moomin 9y agoSounds right.
- cohomologo 9y agoNot any given quantum computer -- Scott Aaronson debunks the D-Wave "quantum" annealers that aren't actually shown to be harnessing the quantum power. IBM's machine by contrast is a genuine quantum computer -- the kind Scott Aaronson would probably have no problem with. But the number of qubits is too tiny to do anything interesting.