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Magic state distillation, meanwhile, is a filtering process by which the highest quality magic states are "purified"
Yeah, okay
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".
It does read like something Carl Segan might have said after smoking Gandalf's magic pipe weed.
Nah, he was good at explaining things
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
I'm definitely gonna need a translation of this into something comprehensible to those of us that only understand classical computing. I get the evolution of binary and logic gates from mechanical computing, to vacuum tubes, to semiconductors, to nanometer miniaturized transistors. I understand (but could not possibly write) how machine language has increasing layers of complexity and eventually becomes human interpretable instructions. I understand shared cache and multiple cores and how that formed a generational leap over clock speed.
I have no idea what the fuck this article is talking about. At all.
They are using a new language called Gandalf ++
/s
I believe it when I see a quantum computer solving a real-world problem, and not just random quantum benchmarks.
Wait, is that sci-fi or fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
It actually seems legit! How well this will scale to production and actual use is unclear though
I'm going to be pissed if Black Mirror is right and quantum computers are magical reality rewriters
I think we can rule that out just by sheer reasoning. If this tech existed it would be discovered by another life forms already and we'd likely never exist. Unless we are first to being to discover such tech.
But either way thats not how quantum computers work even if we speculate in that direction.
Or they don't know about us and we never figured in their rewriting.