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By: Spotting Black Swans with Data Science and Quantum Computing | Pink Iguana

Spotting Black Swans with Data Science and Quantum Computing | Pink Iguana — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:21:21 +0000

[...] years ago almost to the day, I announced my retirement as Chief D-Wave Skeptic. But—as many readers predicted at the time—recent events (and the contents of my inbox!) have [...]

By: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:41:26 +0000

[...] years ago almost to the day, I announced my retirement as Chief D-Wave Skeptic. But—as many readers predicted at the time—recent events (and the contents of my [...]

By: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Quantum computing in the newz

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Quantum computing in the newz — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:04:39 +0000

[...] founder of Amazon.com, recipients of a large fraction of my salary). Despite having officially retired as Chief D-Wave Skeptic, I posted a comment on Tom Simonite’s article in MIT Technology [...]

By: CIA and Amazon Founder Greedily Eye D-Wave’s Quantum Computer | Datacentre Management . org

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:25:34 +0000

[...] became transparent that a D-Wave chips were demonstrating some quantum effects. Professor Aarson blogged on a development, somewhat softening his [...]

By: The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing

The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:55:27 +0000

[...] it's there yet." A fierce critic of D-Wave in the years following its 2007 demo, Aaronson softened his stance last year after the company's Nature paper showing quantum effects. "In the past there was an enormous [...]

By: The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing - Tech Talk | Tech Talk

The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing - Tech Talk | Tech Talk — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:43:53 +0000

[...] there yet.” A fierce critic of D-Wave in the years following its 2007 demo, Aaronson softened his stance last year after the company’s Nature paper showing quantum effects. “In the past there was an [...]

By: CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Dwave Systems’ Adiabatic Quantum Computing | Datacentre Management . org

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:55:12 +0000

[...] Scott talked about a justification of Dwave quantumness in Nature in 2011 [...]

By: Commercial Quantum Computer? « Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog

Commercial Quantum Computer? « Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:56:51 +0000

[...] of D-Wave’s claims is much of what Scott Aaronson has wrote about them. See for example http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=639, http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=198 although interestingly after he visited D-Wave’s [...]

By: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » My visit to D-Wave: Beyond the roast-beef sandwich

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:34:26 +0000

[...] spite of my announcement almost a year ago that I was retiring as Chief D-Wave Skeptic, I thought it would be fitting to give Shtetl-Optimized [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:56:11 +0000

Ummm…. I don’t understand why people care so much about whether D-Wave’s system is getting a boost from quantum mechanical effects or not. In my humble opinion, all that matters is can the machine do what it was designed to do? Can it perform the calculations they say it can? Lockheed will soon find out. If it can, then who cares? I am not in a position to judge D-Wave, but I do agree with them on one point. Just because for over a decade researchers believed a quantum computer HAD to behave a certain way, does not mean there aren’t other ways to exploit quantum effects to achieve computing abilities that classical systems either do not have or are very slow at performing.