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Further discussions of the proof that factoring is in BQP Scott Aaronson is a, if not the, world expert on quantum computation. He writes, as you all know, one of the best blogs on quantum and many more things. Today I and Ken want to make a short summary on the last discussion: is factoring...
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(see also pdf version) Quantum computing is one of the most exciting developments of computer science in the last decades. But this concept is not without its critics, often known as "quantum computing skeptics" or "skeptics" for short. The debate on quantum computing can sometimes confuse the physical and mathematical aspects of this question,...
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Craig Gidney's computer science blog
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Richard Lipton has an article on mathematical disease. My own definition of mathematical disease is quite similar: it must be simple in form, easily explainable to a non-specialist in a few minutes. Moreover, there should be more than one person exclaiming "how can such a problem be open?". Here I also list some problems I...
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