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		CJefferson on Oct 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supr... This had been a consistent problem with quantum computers - - they come up with a quantum computer that can basically do one thing and compare it against a general piece of software not tuned for that problem. Once the software is tuned for the exact problem it is much closer in performance to the quantum computer. The same thing arises with dwave.

tarsinge on Oct 23, 2019 [–]

Yes « Tuned » with 250 Petabytes of storage

CJefferson on Oct 24, 2019 | [–]

To be fair, that exact computer is, I believe, what Google originally composted against.

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