alt Hacker NewsI don’t know enough about the state of quantum computing but this sounds like IBM dumping dead end research onto taxpayers
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downrightmike • today at 6:32 PM
Its all made up computation to fit the problem exactly. No real progress has been made in decades.
"Similarly, quantum factorisation is performed using sleight-of-hand numbers that have been selected to make them very easy to factorise using a physics experiment and, by extension, a VIC-20, an abacus, and a dog." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/cheating-on-q...
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Then why are they also investing $1 billion in the same company as the taxpayers?