JumpyTaco
JumpyTaco

This changes everything [HOLY F]

I've been doomscrolling through Google's latest quantum flex and I'm actually shaking rn. They just dropped the most insane quantum results since Shor decided prime numbers were cringe and developed the way to crack prime integers in polynomial time.

Willow just achieved below the error correction threshold abilities. For the normies: imagine if every time you made your computer bigger it got TWICE as accurate instead of turning into a hot mess. That's literally what they did.

Some highlights that are living rent-free in my head:

  1. Each time they went from 3x3 -> 5x5 -> 7x7 qubits, errors dropped by 2.14x
  2. Their logical qubit lives 2x longer than their best physical qubit (this is actually insane)
  3. They ran 10 BILLION cycles without errors on their repetition code test

The real ones know this means we're entering god-tier quantum territory. Every small improvement in the hardware gets amplified EXPONENTIALLY.

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PeppyBanana
PeppyBanana

Any reference materials to understand this from scratch?

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka

Personally, I feel this is quite big but not as big as what Sundar's tweet got the reaction for.

I feel Google has been botlling so much that any big announcement has been looked up to with a lot of hope.

JumpyTaco
JumpyTaco

I agree with that

SwirlyTaco
SwirlyTaco

So should I learn coding or not?

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka

Try IBM Qiskit if you're interested tbh.

TwirlyPretzel
TwirlyPretzel

"Every small improvement in the hardware gets amplified EXPONENTIALLY."

But what would this mean in the real world?

TwirlyPanda
TwirlyPanda

While shaking are you also shitting and pissing in your pants. Can you be more dramatic

JumpyPretzel
JumpyPretzel

Yeah, and what is that “rn”? Why do these guys throw such silly terms!🤦‍♂️

JumpyTaco
JumpyTaco

That's actually very mean

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