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Well I mean it's still pretty big though. We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way. Still you're right though,

Well I mean it's still pretty big though. We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way. Still you're right though, the race for "fist post" by the media definitely exaggerates scientific breakthroughs. To the science specific literate they can sift through the hype but others get it in their head it's something else. Like investors for example, those guys are big dreamers and when they hear stuff like "ground breaking quantum supremacy" they'll throw everything they got at it. Investing in startups by itself has worse odds than slot machines, hype only makes it harder to predict the future. But oh well, at least we have the actual details and most of the articles link the results for those actually interested. Can't do much about what others think or do though.

DebtDeflation 7y ago
>We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way. We understand the theory behind nuclear fusion, we have plenty of hydrogen, we have the capability to initiate fusion reactions in the lab, so there are only technicalities in our way to powering our electricity needs through fusion. So it has been for 70 years.
- CodiePetersen 7y ago
  Nailing down issues with fault tolerances are a whole lot different than pioneering methods and sciences of uncharted territory. I didn't generalize all technicalities, I specified fault tolerance for a reason, because it's trivial compared to what it took to get to this point. The system works, just not as well as it will take to get to reliable wide spread usage.
  - fsh 7y ago
    It is widely believed that implementing useful quantum error correction (if possible at all) will be orders of magnitude more difficult than what was done so far. To my knowledge, there is no realistic proposal how to implement it on any of the current platforms.

DebtDeflation 7y ago

>We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way. We understand the theory behind nuclear fusion, we have plenty of hydrogen, we have the capability to initiate fusion reactions in the lab, so there are only technicalities in our way to powering our electricity needs through fusion. So it has been for 70 years.

CodiePetersen 7y ago
Nailing down issues with fault tolerances are a whole lot different than pioneering methods and sciences of uncharted territory. I didn't generalize all technicalities, I specified fault tolerance for a reason, because it's trivial compared to what it took to get to this point. The system works, just not as well as it will take to get to reliable wide spread usage.
- fsh 7y ago
  It is widely believed that implementing useful quantum error correction (if possible at all) will be orders of magnitude more difficult than what was done so far. To my knowledge, there is no realistic proposal how to implement it on any of the current platforms.