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How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine? — mentioned by acqq

Tue, 20 May 2014 08:39:05 GMT

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How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine? — HN submission

Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:51:08 GMT

How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine?

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How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine? — mentioned by nmc

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:44:02 GMT

Impressive. This guy goes to the extent of linking to the transcript of a talk perfectly irrelevant to the point. But he cannot link to the paper he is criticizing. So here it is: Shin et al. How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine? http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7087

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