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To my knowledge, there are still no tasks a D-Wave is better at (asymptotically) than a classical machine
by gog-ma-gog 8y ago
To my knowledge, there are still no tasks a D-Wave is better at (asymptotically) than a classical machine
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- johncolanduoni 8y agoLast time I checked they haven't even beaten semi-recent laptops in direct comparisons of execution time, even for very synthetic problems.
- core-questions 8y agoProbably true, but in some ways it's not a fair comparison - since the field is only 20-30 years old, it's not surprising the offerings are comparable to something in the earlier ages of computing. Many kinds of mechanisms that seemed esoteric at their origin (e.g. the primitive but groundbreaking neural networking of the Perceptron) have become everyday reality for us decades later.
- GolDDranks 8y agoWhat about solving QUBOs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_unconstrained_binary_optimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_unconstrained_binary... ) using Quantum Annealing?