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C 64 Beats a quantum computer?
Re: C 64 Beats a quantum computer?
The paper is a joke. Literally.
This was written as a joke to poke fun at the IBM researchers who claimed their quantum computer could do something that classical computing could not - and then were discredited when someone did exactly that.
From what I can tell, IBM made a claim about their quantum computer's capabilities - specifically that this particular problem involving "ferromagnetic fluids" could only be solved using quantum computing. And, as one might expect, someone else wrote a better solution on an ordinary Macbook Pro just a few days later.
The venue in which this was presented is known as "The Association for Computational Heresy", which is basically a forum for posting sarcastic and/or satirical research papers in a.. well, let's call it a humor-adjacent manner.
Here's the presentation for 2024: https://sigbovik.org/2024/proceedings.pdf
And here's their web site: https://sigbovik.org/
The fact that the author got taken in by a joke is nothing new... people keep reposting articles from The Onion as if it was real news on a regular basis.
This was written as a joke to poke fun at the IBM researchers who claimed their quantum computer could do something that classical computing could not - and then were discredited when someone did exactly that.
From what I can tell, IBM made a claim about their quantum computer's capabilities - specifically that this particular problem involving "ferromagnetic fluids" could only be solved using quantum computing. And, as one might expect, someone else wrote a better solution on an ordinary Macbook Pro just a few days later.
The venue in which this was presented is known as "The Association for Computational Heresy", which is basically a forum for posting sarcastic and/or satirical research papers in a.. well, let's call it a humor-adjacent manner.
Here's the presentation for 2024: https://sigbovik.org/2024/proceedings.pdf
And here's their web site: https://sigbovik.org/
The fact that the author got taken in by a joke is nothing new... people keep reposting articles from The Onion as if it was real news on a regular basis.