<div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Scott Aaronson, the official chief D-Wave Skeptic and all-around smart guy, has a nice post where he tears into the issue: (starts below the two updates at the top)<br>
<a href="http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400" target="_blank">http://www.scottaaronson.com/<u></u>blog/?p=1400</a><br>
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He thinks we are *finally* seeing evidence for quantum behaviour, but has arguments why there was no real speed advantage over classical simulated annealing, and points out that if the hype cycle continues like it has, soon we will end up with a "quantum winter" where the entire field will be regarded as a hopeless chimera.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div style>Even in the most optimistic scenarios, are quantum computers general purpose computing machines? Or are they simply machines that are capable of solving a certain class of problem extremely rapidly?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>