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enkid on Oct 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: D-Wave announces general availability of first qua...

I thought the problem had some limited applications. Wasn't it something like modeling the quantum states of hydrogen?

johncolanduoni on Oct 1, 2020 [–]

That was a different test, that wasn’t trying to do something infeasible classically. The supremacy test was effectively solving a contrived combinatorics problem.

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