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in The h Bar, 1 min ago, by vzn
lol yep congratulations, an esteemed colleague made the bigtime... Research paper claims Google has achieved 'quantum supremacy' - a milestone in computing after their quantum processor performed a 'calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7490191/Google-claims-won-race-quantum-supremacy.html
in The Classical Channel, 22 hours ago, by Scott Aaronson
Shtetl-Optimized: Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!
posted on September 23, 2019 by Scott

You’ve seen the stories—in the Financial Times, Technology Review, CNET, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, or elsewhere—saying that a group at Google has now achieved quantum computational supremacy with a 53-qubit superconducting device. While these stories are easy to find, I’m not going to link to them here, for the simple reason that none of them were […]

 
 
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