The quantum computing company D-Wave has reported that they’ve managed to complete a calculation that would have taken a conventional computer millions of years to complete. Is it a computation? Or a simulation? youtube.com/watch?v=P2hn9k…
@skdh Hey, I know this one! This is another series of papers arguing that this wasn't quantum computation, offering some interesting explanation, followed by papers that say it was quantum computation. I remember this exact thing with this exact company happening in 2014 or so!
@skdh Quantum computers are one of those Star Trek fantasies that people who worship science, gravitate too.
@skdh Did they calculate the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
@skdh Is simulation kind of a subset of computation? Look forward to watching.
@skdh Comedic gold on this one. Made me laugh that Einstein had a spoon as well.
@skdh A quantum computer is a quantized analog computer.