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D-Wave revives 'quantum supremacy' claims for new Advantage2 computer (zdnet.com)
1 point by donutloop 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


For a very specific subset of problems, which I believe now are the ones amenable to "simulated annealing" solutions so for example, finding local optimisation points in a complex problem which can be expressed as a surface plot in 3D optimising for height (or depth)

But not (for example) breaking RSA via Shor's algorithm.

It also appears to be a shotgun: you get "the awesome" for a brief window and then the magic pixie dust disappears and its incoherent and indistinguishable from noise for a bit again.




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