The most impressive optimization in this work is the number of click-bait words crammed into a single title. A number of alarm bells are set off with a cursory

The most impressive optimization in this work is the number of click-bait words crammed into a single title. A number of alarm bells are set off with a cursory reading of the article: 1. The algorithm was run on a model of the Higgs, not real data 2. The quantum annealing algorithm outperforms the classical algorithm on small data sets, but underperforms on larger datasets. This is taken as evidence that quantum algorithms can learn from fewer samples, when overfitting is the more likely explanation. caveat: I skimmed the Ars Technica article, didn't read the source Nature paper at all.