Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
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Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#2Love the word "boffin". I think we should use "pundit" more often as well.
Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#3Was pleasantly surprised to see the exact bug in here, in a "The Register" article of all places. Legg showed that fixing the bug invalidates the research. Seems Microsoft is responding to a clear problem with a vague dismissal.
Edit: Oh, The Register is a true tech paper, guess the name makes sense for that. Got mixed up cause there are a bunch of general papers called something Register.
Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
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I don't think research papers normally come with a simple portable way for others to rerun the calculations. At some point the code is complicated enough to be impossible to just proofread without running it.
Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#6Love the word "boffin". I think we should use "pundit" more often as well.
As soon as I saw this word, I guessed that El Reg was the source.
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I don't think research papers normally come with a simple portable way for others to rerun the calculations. At some point the code is complicated enough to be impossible to just proofread without running it.
Yeah I would say that the 'some point' is frontier quantum research. Which makes it even more confusing as to how something like this is not caught.
Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#8> boffins willing to go on the record as describing Microsoft's work as "unreliable" and perhaps even "fraudulent."
> Microsoft insisted its work is sound and in early June 2026 announced Majorana 2, a "next-generation topological quantum chip" it developed with the help of its own agentic AI.
AI hallucinates quantum computing bullshit as well or better than humans can hallucinate quantum computing bullshit. Couldn't have a better combination of technologies helping each other out.
Re: Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
#9You’d really think they’d really check everything and cross their t’s after their previous issues in marjorana fermion QC. I generally have a very high opinion of MS research, but this is getting a bit embarrassing.
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I don't think research papers normally come with a simple portable way for others to rerun the calculations. At some point the code is complicated enough to be impossible to just proofread without running it.
Pretty sure you responded to an AI bot, looking at their comment history.