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Yoric12/09/20242 repliesview on HN

Google is betting on digital quantum computers.

There are, however, analog quantum computers, e.g. by Pasqal, which hope to capitalize on this to optimize AI-like high dimension optimization problems.


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numpad012/10/2024

But aren't qubits sort of analog? I thought the bits have figurative angles of rotation or something continuous that would resonate together and/or cancel out like neurons in fully-connected parts of neural nets that would be read out at the end of the pipeline.

gecko2212/09/2024

Why do quantum computers need to be analog to be applied to such problems?

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