Jan Schaumann on Nostr: This is a pretty cool step forward in quantum computing. But the reporting I've seen, ...

This is a pretty cool step forward in quantum computing. But the reporting I've seen, or perhaps: the takeaways people assume after skimming the headlines are often wildly off the mark.

Part of the problem is in the phrasing, saying Google's chip can solve a problem in 5 minutes that a classical computer can't solve in "a quadrillion times the age of the universe".

This is misleading.