Hoisted from DaOptimizer’s comments, YouTube videos of d-wave’s announcement. Also, Lieven Vandersypen (who factored 15, which sounds simple, but if you think the factoring experiment done on IBM’s NMR machine was simple, then you haven’t seen their pulse sequence!) weighs in on D-wave here.
O brave new quantum world!
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Oh, Dear Bacon, I want to know your comments about d-wave 16qubit quantum computer.
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