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429 points AbhishekParmar | 5 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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elAhmo ◴[22 Oct 25 15:44 UTC] No.45670864[source]▶

Definitely not a quantum expert, but I have a feeling that news like this have been happening for more than a decade, without anything usable.

1. seydor ◴[22 Oct 25 18:52 UTC] No.45673516[source]▶

It's great funding for physics research. I don't care if it's useless, it beats spending on politics and surveillance

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2. ghurtado ◴[22 Oct 25 20:13 UTC] No.45674560[source]▶

There's also the fact that the road to useful is littered with useless, because how else would you make progress?

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You could do what evolution does, and require that every version be useful. But evolution seems to require an awful lot of trial and error.

4. dboreham ◴[23 Oct 25 00:19 UTC] No.45676793{3}[source]▶

Evolution requiring that every version is useful seems a (significant) oversimplification.

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5. oh_my_goodness ◴[23 Oct 25 00:24 UTC] No.45676830{4}[source]▶

If some version is not reasonably useful, it doesn't have kids.

Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware