This is a fantastic use of the D-Wave technology and really highlights the ability to use annealing for a wide range of use cases. I'm definitely going to follow this development closely!
It will be interesting to see how this works on the Advantage2, especially when it moves past the prototype stage. The greater connectivity between qubits may allow for an even better demonstration.
I've been seeing Mac folklore posted to HN recently - this is a fantastically well produced podcast that goes through folklore.org and other articles from the time period, with asides, tidbits, interviews etc. that help paint a picture of this fantastic era in computing history. Well worth a listen.
Well, if your system elastically uses GPU compute and needs to be able to spin up, run compute on a GPU, and spin down in a predictable amount of time to provide reasonable UX, launch time would definitely be a factor in terms of customer-perceived reliability.
>Over the past five years, there has been undeniable hype around quantum computing—hype around approaches, timelines, applications, and more. As far back as 2017, vendors were claiming the commercialization of the technology was just a couple of years away—like the announcement of a 5,000-qubit system by 2020 (which didn’t happen).
Inaccurate. D-Wave did in fact launch a 5000+ qubit system named Advantage in 2020.
> I don't mind that idea - if it turned out installing heated seats failed in say... 28% of installations, fine - charge me more for a model with functioning heated seats.
I know you just chose this as an example, but clearly it wouldn't be acceptable to anyone to have a failed installation of something like this. On one extreme, it could cause a fire; but otherwise, it's just a button that doesn't work, and damages the quality reputation of the car.
Processor binning only works because it is a black box, indistinguishable from the outside. You can purposely disable components if your yields get high enough, etc. and nobody will ever notice the difference.
For vehicles, automakers will learn from customers that this kind of nickel-and-diming is not appreciated, when people turn to other manufacturers that still "get it", e.g. Mazda.
Same here. It's barebones, but it's also cheap and plentiful on the used market, has enough functionality to be useful without being overwhelming, and fits easily in a backpack. Did some noodling around with it connected to my iPhone on a plane recently, no drivers needed if you get that Lighting-to-USB adapter, phone powered it fine, and I was able to drive Korg Gadget and make some shitty techno.
So go to the website and use it. Many of us simply find it as a way for more propaganda to be fed to us unasked-for when we open up a new tab (at least, until we remember to turn it off).
Some of us would love to work on a team like this. It would be nice to have the option. Your definition of "acceptable" might not actually result in teams that can take on the big challenges we face as a species as men who did find this kind of thing acceptable retire out of the workforce.
Correct. The availability of cheap credit + higher than normal resale values for vehicles of late has led to a situation where people are overextending themselves and buying vehicles that cost 80% or more of their yearly income in order to "keep up with the Joneses". I know some people in this situation, and their ability to afford $600/mo payments (plus insurance, plus gas, plus maintenance) is leading them to actually do less: fewer outings, fewer trips, less expenditure elsewhere, perhaps no summer camp for the kids, etc.
America badly needs a return to the much lighter S-10 and Ranger of the past, with a 4-banger and a small back seat. These behemoths with V8s are not necessary for most people, and neither is the level of temporary luxury they convey. Let's face it: after a couple years your shiny new truck is just as noteworthy as every other truck on the road, which is to say, most people don't care about it / aren't impressed by it anyway.
Yes, if you have H.Pylori it can cause all sorts of problems, acid reflux, bad breath, gastritis, ulcers, etc. I'm no doctor but I have been tested for this in the past; I think it was just a blood test, nothing invasive, and it's curable.
Better to get it sorted sooner than later. That GP visit can also be a good time to ask about all sorts of other small issues, and a blood test is a good idea at least every year or two. Ask about hormone levels, iron, vitamins, everything; for you it's just a lab visit.
I can't wait until it's possible to get these tests a few times a year and have all the values charted somewhere tied into the personal health ecosystem. Ironically, as someone interested in online privacy, I find the medical data the least concerning; I'm willing to let all of that go if it means I can get back some good answers or better healthcare. I can understand why some people aren't, of course, and they should always have the right to it; and it's good that this medical industry privacy situation is influencing other industries as well. But still! Imagine if some ML system with access to the data of a million people like me could show me exactly what I should stop eating, or exactly what supplement I need more of....
I'm no farmer, but I'm all ears! If you have dry useless soil and can't water it, does it not have some residual value as an export product?
I suppose this is assuming that there's not going to be water in the future, and that you just want to extract whatever use there is left from an area before giving it over to desertification.
> Every kind of functionality you can imagine already exists in open formats with powerful programs designed to make it easy for you to compose rich documents.
Not only that, but this kind of thing has existed for ~30 years now. I remember MS Word 6.0 on Windows 3.1, 16 bits and 4MB of RAM, with large documents with significant styling, embedded Powerpoint and Excel documents, MS Draw vector art, etc.
I concur that the line-based approach most Git tooling uses is not good enough. At the very least, even for code, it should be integrated with Tree-Sitter etc. by now and be comparing changes at the AST level, not just the raw text; and when it comes to documents, we should get side-by-side diffs showing the rendered document.
But is there a market for this, besides just you and me?
There are real, usable, near-realtime Quantum Annealers, which are different from gate model quantum computers, but have proven to be much more amenable to physical implementation. These are more geared towards optimization functions, which can have practical use for logistics, physics simulations, and more.
Gate model computers interest everyone because of the potential to factor large numbers; this could potentially render a lot of existing and past cryptography open to decryption that otherwise will be locked up for aeons, especially considering the apparently decaying effect of Moore's Law of late. However, it probably takes millions or billions of gate qubits to do that, whereas thousands of annealing qubits are enough to solve some interesting problems, and to contribute to finding better solutions when combined with classical compute in a hybrid setup.
It will be interesting to see how this works on the Advantage2, especially when it moves past the prototype stage. The greater connectivity between qubits may allow for an even better demonstration.