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Y Combinator-Funded Startup To Do Quantum Computing -- Only Better (bizjournals.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
A "spaceshot" company that emerged from Y Combinator three summers ago and is targeting a revolutionary change in the way computers work has landed $64 million to help it in the race against much bigger tech giants. Rigetti Computing, which operates out of Berkeley and Fremont, is tackling quantum computing and going up against research being done by the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and others... Rigetti is building a cloud quantum computing platform for artificial intelligence and computational chemistry. It recently opened up private beta testing of 'Forest', its API for quantum computing in the cloud. It integrates directly with existing cloud infrastructure and treats the quantum computer as an accelerator.
"The potential to make a positive impact on humanity is enormous," said Chad Rigetti, the startup's founder and CEO -- who declined to say whether the company is actually earning any revenue yet.
"The potential to make a positive impact on humanity is enormous," said Chad Rigetti, the startup's founder and CEO -- who declined to say whether the company is actually earning any revenue yet.
"Chad Rigetti, the startup's founder and CEO -- who declined to say whether the company is actually earning any revenue yet."
who would also decline to say whether the company is doing proper quantum computing yet.
Yeah, okay. $20 says this turns out to be a giant scam inside of five years
Is there anything that comes out of Y Combinator that isn't a buzzword-laden funding scam?
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Is this the first of Slashdot's April Fools posts? It's getting harder to tell.
WTF just happened now everything looks like shit with slashdot redesign. WTF?!?!
Actually it was me. Money wasn't spent. Hence "Slacker News". BAH HUMBUG to you to
Somebody should mod the parent up. It isn't off topic to question whether or not this news story is real. The April Fool's nonsense here makes it difficult to tell if this submission is real or just a joke.
Why don't you click through to the source story?
Good to know.
You won't be seeing me again.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Is this for real?! The admins here are going around downmodding people who asked legitimate questions about the veracity of a submission here?!
Cool. See ya
No, just me, and one person
I did, whipslash. I can't tell if the 'Silicon Valley Business Journal' is real or not, too.
Alas, your joke went live a few hours before the first of April where I am, so I was quite confused for a moment. Other than the colors, I really like the front page, though. :-)
"positive impact on humanity"
That statement is equal parts meaningless word soup, idiotic boasting, and a rare level of over-confident douchebaggery reserved for start-up CEOs.
I am looking at the orange banner and thinking 'I have a virus infection'. Ha bloody ha. I expect my sense of humor will recover.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
DISHONEST media is lying to you about the existence of "April" or "quantum computing", while distracting you from Ycombinator-funded Bowling Green massacre! Failing Slashdot will not Make America Great Again. SAD!
building a cloud quantum computing platform for artificial intelligence
Bingo!
Good. Good.
(-1, whiner) would describe better.
New Slashdot look? Yuck!
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
We have been using the platform in our own quantum mechanics experiments. The system is amazingly powerful, setting up even a complex system is trivial with simple win.ini-style config files, and it can solve analytically any partial differential equation you throw at it. We've so far solved the n-body problem, the Uranus atom (incidentally developing a new paradigm in nuclear energy), and have managed to use MA discharges through Josephson junctions to modify the space-time geometry so that subliminal travel of small objects is achievable.
Our next goal is solving the stockmarket equation. See if you can beat us to it.
The best part: it is free, and unrestricted, at least via the NSA backdoor that we've been using.
Excellent tool, highly recommended.
...I want ponies
There's no point in visiting this site again until over a day has passed.
Given dupes, slow news, slow editorial (...huh ?) process, etc.
I would say waiting a until over a week has passed is better.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Where are you going to go, Reddit? That's the worst of them all.
I the the joke's on slashdot. Still looks better than the mobile site.
I have this theory someone took over a bunch of low-user-ID accounts, and they then just periodically use them to post "Slashdot's finally gone too far and I must avert my eyes!"
Which refuses to stay logged in for more than a few page views at a time. I can almost never reuse a login to post, and then when I log in after writing the post, it will often go somewhere else after logging in without submitting the post.
Some people's misunderstanding of "quantum" results in Schrodinger's indeterminacy principle being thtown into the mix resulting in a condition where a company must simultaneously be doing quantum computing right and wrong. Also, descriptions of quantum computing fail to acknowledge the presence of logic gates. I haven't read this article yet to determine if it follows the pattern though.
I liked your Slacker News. It was an unexpected surprise, a small detail which made me smile, pretty much the opposite than this comment. Being proud of arbitrarily misusing an over-power you have? In a site like this, where the whole moderation system was created to be as unbiased as possible? Actually these (dumb-)childish attitudes are precisely the main reason why I have stopped participating in various other social-media sites. I am exclusively interested in dealing with adults and, eventually, helping kids understand how to behave.
I haven't been participating in Slashdot for too long, but I like this community quite a lot. I will certainly continue coming here to read and post. This community is very big and strong (although might seem quite dysfunctional at first sight) to disappear or, at least, to stop being appealing to me. Even in the worst scenario, it might move somewhere else (to other site or a different company might buy this site or your company might hire other people). One thing is sure: attitudes like the one you have shown in this last post are completely against all what I will ever stand for (in Slashdot) and nothing will ever change that. You (your company or slashdot.org or whatever) only provide a place, a container, an accessory and easily-replaceable feature; you are the building where the meeting is hold, the cable through which the electricity flows, etc. You are only one of the many parts of a whole which, in case of not behaving exactly as expected, will be replaced.
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
kthxbye :/
Here's how quantum computing really works:
It splits reality into millions of possible universes, trying a different answer in each one. Then it uses quantum interference to destroy every universe where the answer comes out wrong. When it's done, you know the answer you have is right.
Perseverance is a strong will; obstinacy is a strong won't.
What exactly are you upset about? That I responded to a rude comment with a little rudeness of my own? I'm not your butler
So you're Logan Abbot huh ? Shrug. SourceForge hasn't been all that interesting in years and /. feels more and more like work to visit.
Abbott says that they have a lot of good things planned for both sites. "The biggest thing I want to stress is that we are committed to serving our user base, which consists of the Slashdot community, and the SourceForge users and developers," he says. "We're not going to take any shortsighted approaches that may have been taken in the past. We're focused on building on and improving these two iconic sites for years to come."
I'm probably just old and I'm not the kind of person you're targeting, if I am you sure as hell missed.
Good luck with your holdings
Thanks for the feedback.
My post gets -1 overrated and the Bill-Cosby-wannabe above (some words, "BAH HUMBUG" and some other words) gets +5 funny! Thanks for helping readers understand my point with this new sample of moderation abuse.
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. I'm at the part where they get served with an intellectual property lawsuit, as one of the engineers wrote half of the code base at old startup. Fun times.
I doubt this book will replace Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan as my favorite Silicon Valley startup book.
I responded to a rude comment attacking one of my editors. Weird that it's upsetting to people
I can't tell if the 'Silicon Valley Business Journal' is real or not, too.
It's real. I don't recall when the name got changed. It used to be the "San Jose Business Journal" in the 1990's when I read it regularly.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose
I responded
No, you used a system against its purpose to attack a person sharing an opinion which you didn't like. You might have replied to my message, by censoring my attitude or by trying to convince me that I was wrong. But you didn't do anything of that, you modded my post down by using the moderation system as a way to punish my behaviour. If we were in the wild west, you would have shot me in the back (to defend a friend of yours).
a rude comment
Openly saying what I think is rude? Criticising a behaviour which I consider negative for this community by giving reasons (and even kudos) is rude? I think that you are looking for the word describing a person openly criticising what you did and rude isn't the best one. In fact, I don't think that there is any good word for that. There are (preventive) attacks, dismissing expressions, insults and further "resources" which some people might use to avoid an open, reason-based and face-to-face conversation where being wrong is one of the possible outputs.
attacking one of my editors
I didn't attack anyone. The sole intention of my comment was sharing what I consider best for this site (better: for the community which uses it). People thinking differently can convince me that I am wrong or even ignore my opinion, but why feeling attacked? Am I not allowed to have an opinion on this or any other issue and reasonably sharing it? Isn't this precisely the whole point of Slashdot's comment section? Should I make sure that everyone listening agree with me before opening my mouth to avoid anyone feeling attacked? Sorry, but I will not do that.
Weird that it's upsetting to people
I am not upset, although some people think that I am a bit weird. So, I guess that this one is almost kind of not completely wrong.
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
First of all, I didn't mod your post down. I modded the parent down. Second of all, I wasn't calling you rude nor saying you attacked anyone. Again, I was talking about the parent comment by the_bionic_lemming.
OK. Sorry about the misunderstanding, I got it completely wrong. Although you could have been a bit more clear (e.g., saying the person you were referring to, answering to my original post rather to the one complaining about the downvote, etc.).
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
No worries. My bad too. Just got ruffled by the original comment.
Group hug!
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
How did you mod the parent down if you posted. That's a basic premise of /., mod or post but not both.