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Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

  • Scott--Scottaaronson.blog
  • published date: 2026-04-01 21:26:47 UTC

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-tolerance with lower overhead than was previously known, by using …

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two bombshell QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-toleranc… [+3104 chars]