alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft Research entire point is that their approach will allow
"fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on noise-resilient, topologically protected Majorana-based qubits."
Usually when people try to explain something about quantum computers, it feels like someone is trying to teach me what a monad is from the infamous example in some old haskell docs.
I'm not proud of my ignorance, and I sure hope that eventually if I get it, it'd be very useful for me. At least it worked like that for monads.