Enter the Matrix

10 responses to “Enter the Matrix”

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   biotron

   Feb 14, 2007 at 2:13 am

   woooo!

   how incredible about the La Scala comment connection… did Kenny Baker wheel himself in too, perchance? *

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   benjiman

   Feb 14, 2007 at 3:09 am

   Wow. Awesome that this is happening…. The tech, the company, the whole bit(s).

   You can sort of feeeeel the future accellerating toward us when this kind of tech starts becoming real. I’m sure that sensation is multiplied a few times over for you Steve, as your right in the thick of it!

   Additional awesomeness that you achieved a Flickr Reality Distortion for this fellow in the audience.

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   sprklg

   Feb 14, 2007 at 5:50 am

   I have to admit I was very skeptical when I first started to hear rumours about this company a few years ago from physicist friends in Vancouver. Nice to see the prototype has made it to demo stage.

   Thanks for these very interesting posts.

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   breic

   Feb 14, 2007 at 8:09 am

   I think most people are still extremely skeptical, since the company hasn’t released any information on the quantum coherence of their system and has made very questionable claims about its potential to solve NP-complete problems. It does seem cool, though, but I’m afraid the chances of it being for real are low.

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   bawdy cows

   Feb 14, 2007 at 2:38 pm

   Is the presentation or the presentation materials available online?
   Edit: Ah, nevermind. Video to be released on feb.15 – http://www.dwavesys.com/registration.php?eventid=9
   In the mean time:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJzZaFacKM

   This is extremely cool, especially if the thing proves to be as rapidly scalable as Geordie Rose claims it is.. Best of luck Steve, hope you’ve struck gold on this one.

   Also, Scott Aaronsons D-Wave/Orion QC Anti-Hype FAQ: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=198

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6. 

   david.orban

   Feb 14, 2007 at 6:18 pm

   Hey, Steve! 🙂

   I was that fellow, even if it was Herb, CEO of D-wave to point the story out, as I would have not bragged about it first hand, but it is true! I think that we assisted an historic moment yesterday, and that QC will progress very rapidly from now on.

   In the meantime I am posting a series of thoughts about the event and the system both in my Italian blog and in my English blog.

   Also have posted my photos of the event.

   David
   http://www.davidorban.com

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   Erik Charlton

   Feb 17, 2007 at 7:48 pm

   amazing. amazing. amazing. What a cool world we live in!

   Wait, thought my message was encrypted, but ummm. What are the implications of D-Wave’s work again?

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8. 

   arvind k

   Feb 18, 2007 at 5:15 am

   D-Wave is doing interesting work, but it is not exactly a quantum computer.

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   breic

   Apr 8, 2007 at 7:57 am

   The NY Times has a skeptical article. They mention you!

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10. 

    jurvetson

    Mar 21, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    and some déjà vu, 13 years later… Was it a glitch in the Matrix, folding time?

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