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Its all made up computation to fit the problem exactly. No real progress has been made in decades. "Similarly, quantum factorisation is performed using sleight
by downrightmike 5mo ago
Its all made up computation to fit the problem exactly. No real progress has been made in decades.
"Similarly, quantum factorisation is performed using sleight-of-hand numbers that have been selected to make them very easy to factorise using a physics experiment and, by extension, a VIC-20, an abacus, and a dog."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/cheating-on-quantum-computing-benchmarks.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/cheating-on-q...
- ks1723 5mo agoThis is just not true. There has been tremendous progress in the field. Starting with google’s experiment in 2019 on showing quantum advantage - admittedly on a useless problem, but quantum advantage nevertheless, to fault tolerant encodings by the Harvard group to recent demonstrations of a road toward advantage in generative models by goggle, to name a few. It’s still far away from running Shor’s algorithm to factor relevant numbers and break RSA and the like, but even there dramatic progress is being made, see, e.g., https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665