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Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing

nytimes.com

57 pointsmitchbob14 comments

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043659

Is there anything new in this article, or is it just a repeat of what we already learned last month?

It would be great if they could start to publish benchmark results for Shor's algorithm if the conputer is able to run it, even if the results are not exact at this point.

They absolutely can't publish benchmark results for Shor; their architecture can't run it at all. This is Google and IBM's marketing departments duking it out for ... reasons. IBM has physics on their side.

>IBM has physics on their side.

What do you mean by this?

They wrote that the computer is a generic computer, so it's perfectly capable of running Shor's algorithm, just not with practical parameters (for example without error correction)

Damn really hate those "subscribe to read", maybe there's a link to this article without the need to subscribe?

You can read NYT articles in a private browser window.

Not any more.

Actually, you can again. At least in Safari with Wipr installed. They're doing an overlay at the bottom of the window instead of just blocking the whole thing.

Thanks, will try that

Reader mode in Firefox will remove the subscribe banner and show the article.

I find I have to press the reader mode button quickly. It seems to load the entire article, then Javascript moves/deletes most of the article so reader mode can no longer see it after a short segment.

Open dev tools, clear all storage and cookies for the site.

NYT tries to detect private browsing mode but they need to use client-side data to track whether you've already read your free article.

Note that in the US this information may violate the DMCA. But on the other hand their behavior violates the GDPR in Europe so fair's fair.

Amazing feat ! Kudos to all involved.

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