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Update: Google’s use of a ‘quantum computer’

News: Computer Power    December 17, 2009
Chris Lee over at Ars-Technica has some background observations on the story about Google’s use of the D-Wave system for analyzing images. Google doesn’t give a damn if it is a quantum computer or not, just that it works, and works better than existing systems. [Source: ArsTechnica]
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Quantum computing and image recognition

Impact: Computer Power    December 14, 2009
One of the many things that’s easy for (adult) humans and very difficult for computers is image recognition. Take twenty thousand pictures of a street, half with cars and half without. A human being will separate car pictures from non-car pictures with about 100% accuracy (if not falling asleep from boredom). Not so for computers, [...]
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