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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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429 points AbhishekParmar | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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JohnHaugeland ◴[22 Oct 25 15:45 UTC] No.45670897[source]▶
the big problem with quantum advantage is that quantum computing is inherently error-prone and stochastic, but then they compare to classical methods that are exact

let a classical computer use an error prone stochastic method and it still blows the doors off of qc

this is a false comparison

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1. jasonthorsness ◴[22 Oct 25 15:59 UTC] No.45671118[source]▶
They get the same result when they run it a second time and it matches the classical result; this is their key achievement (in addition to the speed).