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Posted by connorboyle 5 hours ago

Boffin claims Microsoft's "quantum leap" is invalid due to "basic Python errors"(www.theregister.com)
113 points | 42 commentspage 2
ck2 3 hours ago|
Majorana fermion and Ettore Majorana are fascinating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana

smartformulapro 5 hours ago|
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frollogaston 5 hours ago|
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.
CodesInChaos 15 minutes ago|||
I'm surprised they even included source code at all.
TaupeRanger 4 hours ago||||
Pretty sure you responded to an AI bot, looking at their comment history.
fennecbutt 4 hours ago||
And the structure of their sentences, unless they're doing that on purpose for some reason
frollogaston 4 hours ago||
Ok I don't normally call "bot" but yes it is. "It's not a sentence – it's a DSL"
brumbelow 4 hours ago||||
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.
m4gr4th34 4 hours ago||||
I actually have been fiddling with something like this. Self publishing on GitHub, numbers that are run in real time. If code can be open-sourced, I think research can start to be. I started using linux in 2019, and honestly, though I don't use it now (windows-turned-mac man, sigh), open source is a solid concept.
jMyles 4 hours ago|||
> I don't think research papers normally come with a simple portable way for others to rerun the calculations.

...which, for situations where a readable/narrated test suite is entirely possible, is awful.

frollogaston 4 hours ago|||
Research code is stereotypically awful
m4gr4th34 4 hours ago|||
I actually created a template to make research dossiers to do exactly that on GitHub. it works, and self hosts, and has a DOI, and blockchain timestamps... I'm a quantum physicist that left academia cause it was too slow for my taste, and I think the technology is here now for open-sourcing science research.