Quantum computing is real, and D-wave just open-sourced it

[Ghostyes]

This is so cool.  

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/d-wave-turns-open-source-democratize-quantum-computing/

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read the posting guidelines before posting. you also can't open source quantum computing, quantum computing is a concept not a product. they open sourced their programming software for their line of quantum computers.

[WkdPaul]

47 minutes ago, Ghostyes said:

This is so cool.  

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/d-wave-turns-open-source-democratize-quantum-computing/

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[Sniperfox47]

5 hours ago, Ghostyes said:

This is so cool.  

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/d-wave-turns-open-source-democratize-quantum-computing/

Also "Quantum Computing" may be real in a technical sense, but it's not tangible either. D-Wave's system is only useful in application in computing very specific problems, and isn't a general purpose computer by any stretch of the imagination. It's closer to a special purpose calculator (for optimization problems rather than arithmetic) than a conventional computer.