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Aqueous on July 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quantum Virtual Machine to accelerate research and...

Off-topic but what ever happened to this [1] Google quantum computing breakthrough?

Major buzz happened in 2019 but since then, it feels, crickets. Did the NSA swoop in and silence all publication of further development or something?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/technology/quantum-comput...

masterofsome on July 20, 2022 | [–]

I think this is relevant: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/math-may-have-caught...

detaro on July 20, 2022 | [–]

Major buzz happened because Google made big claims. Were those actually justified, or were the critics cited in the article correct?

Aqueous on July 20, 2022 | [–]

If they were shown to be false, I would have expected that discussion to surface occasionally. However, all I've heard is silence.

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