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0 pointsdist-epoch11mo ago0 comments

That's very pedantic, like saying "computers don't solve integer addition, AND/OR/NOT/XOR gates solve it, those are the fundamental thing".

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> That's very pedantic

Yes because we're talking about pure math here not popcorn and soda.

My attempt at less offensive analogies:

"Efficiency of hw arithmetic is not the bottleneck, lack of a poly time algo to factor prime numbers is"

&, the closely related

"Ability to reduce everything to HSP is not the bottleneck, lack of a scaleable implementation of qFT is"

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> That's very pedantic

Yes because we're talking about pure math here not popcorn and soda.

My attempt at less offensive analogies:

"Efficiency of hw arithmetic is not the bottleneck, lack of a poly time algo to factor prime numbers is"

&, the closely related

"Ability to reduce everything to HSP is not the bottleneck, lack of a scaleable implementation of qFT is"

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