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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: 0.291s | source
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nashashmi ◴[22 Oct 25 15:38 UTC] No.45670773[source]▶
Before the mega monopolies took over, corps used to partner with universities to conduct this kind of research. Now we have bloated salaries, rich corporations, and expensive research while having under experienced graduates. These costs will get forwarded to the consumer. The future won’t have a lot of things that we have come to expect.
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Rover222 ◴[22 Oct 25 15:51 UTC] No.45670996[source]▶
Nihilism is to trendy right now
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1. steego ◴[22 Oct 25 16:50 UTC] No.45671873[source]▶
Nihilism is one response to disillusionment.

Another response is to come to terms with a possibly meaningless and Sisyphean reality and to keep pushing the boulder (that you care about) up the hill anyway.

I’m glad the poster is concerned and/or disillusioned about the hype, hyperbole and deception associated with this type of research.

It suggests he still cares.