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It’s weird but this article reminds me a little of CERN’s signal processing. QEC (Quantum Error Correction) or acceptable predetermined parameter is fairly reminiscent of what I’ve heard of the signal processing of the sensors for the super collider where the output of the collider is first run through filters that alter the raw signal.
Additionally, it seems that they are trying to virtualize hardware. At the beginning of the article, the author states that quantum computing has multiple orders of magnitude signal error rates compared to modern computing and QEC would solve this issue. In effect, to me it seems that as an electrical signal is modulated by smaller and smaller electrical components in modern computing, quantum computing essentially virtualizes the physical components into software and the physical barriers to Moore’s law becomes more malleable. Where this becomes important, especially for Google, is that if you have a large infrastructure such as the Google apparatus, you would be able to internally manipulate, create, combine, virtual purpose built computers on demand depending on the current requirements. This is pretty neat….

Best quote of the article in my opinion is the last.
“Still, a drive to practical outcomes might even lead us to totally abandon the abstract notion of fault-tolerant quantum computing and replace it with something more like fault-tolerant-enough quantum computing. That might be just what the doctor ordered.”

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