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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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447 points AbhishekParmar | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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kantbtrue ◴[22 Oct 25 15:52 UTC] No.45671020[source]▶
“13,000× faster” sounds huge, but I wonder what it’s being compared to. Quantum speedups are always tricky to measure
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jonathanstrange ◴[22 Oct 25 15:55 UTC] No.45671059[source]▶
The article states: “...13,000 times faster on Willow than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers...”

I agree it's not very precise without knowing which of the world's fastest supercomputers they're talking about, but there was no need to leave out this tidbit.

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nicce ◴[22 Oct 25 20:25 UTC] No.45674702[source]▶
I don’t understand how these papers get accepted
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