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Re:Insert D-Wave Post Here by mabbo on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:56AM (#13886060)
The smartest human I have ever known (a guy I went to university with) worked for them for a few years. He's the kind of person that if he says they're legit, I believe it because he's too smart for them to have fooled him, and he's too honest to be part of a fraud. He never gave any indication that he thought it wasn't legit.

As far as I can tell, they think they're using quantum effects to speed up computation. The two questions that remain are A: are they right? and B: are the effects they are using giving them enough of an advantage to beat classical computers?

Re:Insert D-Wave Post Here by edw on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:44PM (#13886481)
Carl Sagan has written at length about the limits of the credibility-assessing heuristic you're following. There's a reason that scientists have been snowed by paranormal fraudsters while professional magicians have not. I know nothing about D-Wave and have no opinion, but you need to look to people who manipulate people for a living—think the Amazing Randi—for accurate assessments of these sorts of things, not scientists. To paraphrase Sagan, the problem with scientists is that they are trained to fight against an opponent—Nature—that typically fights fair.
Re:Insert D-Wave Post Here by selimthegrim on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:28PM (#13890628)
If you think scientists in academia fight fair, I can only look on your Persil white view of the world with envy.