🎉🚀 A blog post that breathlessly claims quantum computing "bombshells" while explaining that quantum computers won't perform miracles. Kudos to #academia for once again lowering the bar on #excitement by marginally improving obscure theories that'll dazzle precisely no one at cocktail parties. 🍸💡
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665 #quantumcomputing #cocktailparty #technews #HackerNews #ngated
Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum faul…

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