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I love when scientists mock each other (thelemmy.club)

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So I joust found this brilliant scientific paper called "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" which mocks quantum computer researchers for optimising factorisation of prime numbers in a way, so that it is as easy as possible to calculate them with a quantum computer. While you may not understand the technical or mathematical explanations they include a lot of jokes and its very funny to read. One of the jokes is,that they call quantum computers a "physics experiment", which is the explanation behind this joke.

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[-] prex@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago

When people are purchasing their experiments from bestbuy?

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So a supercomputer is a physics experiment? A lithography machine for producing microchips is a physics experiment?

I guess a fair threshold would be "when it can be run and maintained by engineers rather than scientists". In which case, many quantum computers are indeed physics experiments.