what happened?

Kitaev also

grandfather? he's not *that* old
;-)

Stephen Colbert explains why the simplest way of finding the shortest path between 22 cities involves
1. flying to the Moon
2. mining some Helium-3
3. bringing it back to the Earth and pouring it in your quantum computer.

playing with chatGPT myself quite a bit, I see it make sentences like "It presents a drop-in, provably correct replacement for the contested Step 9" quite a bit, so I'm also a bit suspicious here.

thinking model with the 20$ version

So, not a breakthrough, but something that could have kept an intern busy for a while a couple of years ago. (And not something I would ever have attempted myself before AI tools were available.)
(4/4)

but it ended up working very nicely.
One gets quite decent parameters, better than what I thought.
@eczoo.bsky.social (3/4)

compute the code parameters. Nothing new, this is exactly the construction for the original paper but coding all of this can be rather painful.

With ChatGPT, i just had to explain the idea and ask for the scripts that compute the parameters. It took some time (about at day in total) to debug (2/4)

sure, and I would agree with that point. But showing the PQ line converging to probability 1 after a few years is a way stronger claim.

right... so what do we do?

what was the conclusion of the discussion?

Félicitations Hanna !!