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Re:First quantum computers need smart software by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:05AM (#15294518)
There are 17-qbits quantum computers out there right now. So, I guess you might be wrong.
Re:First quantum computers need smart software by throwaway613834 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:30PM (#15298472)
> There are 17-qbits quantum computers out there right now. So, I guess you might be wrong.

I'm not sure: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3192

> I replied that, even though we’ve by now been around this carousel several times, I felt like the ball was now firmly in the D-Wave skeptics’ court, to reproduce the observed performance classically. And if, after a year or so, no one could, that would be a good time to start taking seriously that a D-Wave speedup might finally be here to stay—and to move on to the next question, of whether this speedup had anything to do with quantum computation, or only with the building of a piece of special-purpose optimization hardware.

Re:First quantum computers need smart software by marcosdumay on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:59AM (#15304076)
D-Wave has nothing to do with quantum computers (the way the word is normally used). And no relation to the numbers I posted earlier.