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Manfred comments on This year's biggest scientific achievements - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Elo 13 December 2015 05:26AM

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Comment author: Manfred 13 December 2015 11:31:26PM *  0 points [-]

Quantum computing didn't really have many milestones this year - 2012 (surface error correcting code proposed) and 2014 (I think this is when fidelity of Xmon qbits for surface code was reached, and in fall Google throws money at the Martinis group from UCSB to work on superconducting quantum computers) were definitely bigger years. But sure - we are in the middle of a multi-year event related to quantum computing :P

Comment author: Elo 14 December 2015 03:11:10AM 0 points [-]

I don't want to entirely leave it out... Moving it to the "runner up" section.