Friday, December 18, 2009

D-Wave and Google

Google teaming up with D-Wave has been making a lot of noise lately. I wasn't originally going to write anything about it, until I came across a recent post by Scott Aaronson titled "Hopefully my last D-Wave post ever". I thought the way he wrote it was humorous- I liked the fictional interchange. I recommend reading both the post and comments.

I don't really have too much more to add other than to quote Carl Sagan: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" [1]. We're still waiting for the extraordinary evidence from D-Wave.

References

[1] C. Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, 1 ed. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1997.

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