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Scientists achieve 'magic state' quantum computing breakthrough 20 years in the making (www.livescience.com)
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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Magic state distillation, meanwhile, is a filtering process by which the highest quality magic states are "purified"

Yeah, okay

[–] loppy@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago

This sentence is shit, but I want to point out at least that "magic" is jargon for "well-behaved" or "particularly well-suited (for our application)". It's essentially "magic" like in the phrase "it works like magic".

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It does read like something Carl Segan might have said after smoking Gandalf's magic pipe weed.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Nah, he was good at explaining things