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SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In a way, regular computers are also physics experiments. As are fridges and cars. When does an experiment graduate to being a technology?
Comment on I love when scientists mock each other
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In a way, regular computers are also physics experiments. As are fridges and cars. When does an experiment graduate to being a technology?
Ediacarium@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Been a while since I read this paper, but:
The main criticism in this paper is, that the problems are asked and preprocessed in a way that makes them almost trivial. Basically, CPU manufacturers could boast about 10000% faster prime number factorization, if all they were doing was prime number factorization of 2^n^
They even suggest, that instead of solving known and borderline trivial problems, quantum computers should instead be evaluated using random problems.
^Also, they should thank their dog in the acknowledgement section^
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Its basically what you said. They searched for ways to optimize the problem to the solution and not the solution to the Problem.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fair enough - sounds more like a problem with the specific study than with the quantum computer