{"id":236,"date":"2007-05-06T05:29:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-05-06T05:29:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T13:29:40","slug":"two-sunday-morning-breakfast-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Two Sunday-morning breakfast links"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday NEC put out a press release<\/a> announcing the “world’s first controllably coupled qubits.” See here<\/a> for the abstract of the accompanying Science<\/em> paper by Niskanen et al. (unfortunately the full text requires a subscription). NEC’s announcement led to the usual fluffified popular articles; see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a> for example. But to satisfy Geordie Rose’s curiosity<\/a>, my hype-o-meter has not<\/em> yet reached D-Wave levels, for three reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. These claims haven’t garnered nearly as much ‘quonfusion’ as D-Wave’s in the popular press.<\/li>\n
  2. In this case there is<\/em> a peer-reviewed paper.<\/li>\n
  3. There’s no claim here about solving NP-complete problems, or indeed about asymptotic complexity at all. The sole claim to originality has to do with “tunable two-qubit couplings,” and I’m not at all well-placed to evaluate it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Anyway, I thought I should at least mention this work, in the hope that commenters more knowledgeable than I am will weigh in on its significance. Eternal vigilance is the price of quantum computing research.<\/p>\n

    OK, on to the second breakfast link. Bill Gasarch has reviewed my blog<\/a> for SIGACT News<\/em> (scroll down to page 15), together with Lance Fortnow’s and Luca Trevisan’s. Favorite quotes:<\/p>\n

    Lance is Walter Cronkite. Scott is Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n

    The name of the blog, ‘Shtetl-Optimized’ does not really say what it is about. With this in mind one can never say Scott has gone ‘off topic’ since its [sic] not clear what the topic should be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Incidentally, an uncharitable person might suspect a slight<\/em> conflict of interest in Bill reviewing Lance’s blog, seeing as Bill now writes<\/em> Lance’s blog. But Bill assures us that he reviewed the blog before<\/em> taking it over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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