Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing (blog.google)

It's kinda like magic numbers in a normal numerical algorithm. The issue is, the constants ('states') you need in some quantum computer themselves require some level of quantum computing to generate (in this case, iteratively 'cultivate'). In a normal computer you could read constants from the code, but that isn't possible here. You have to bootstrap the necessary quantum states from your non-quantum problem, and that needs to be efficient or else why did you build a quantum computer.

I was thinking more along these lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism

* xianxia

and possibly changing the world :D

> her cat

Ahem: "Toast, Research Assistant"

Hopefully Toast hasn't been put in too many boxes with flasks of poison.