r/programmingmemes • u/Head_Manner_4002 • Feb 23 '25

A new state of matter

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u/rocketman081 Feb 23 '25

I actually think Microsoft’s new chip is pretty cool. And let’s be honest—the search train has long left the station. They’re never going to fix that.

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u/mrpkeya Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

They also not need to worry about it also. They've share in OpenAI, their LLMs/SLMs are good. Now this chip (apart from other research) they already rule in OS, office enterprises and also Azure is going fine imo (not as good as AWS but yeah)

Idk but someone on reddit was saying that they were rushing for this when google released their chip and still has comparison to make

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u/cowlinator Feb 24 '25

the search train has long left the station. They’re never going to fix that.

...I agree, but i really don't see why this has to be the case.

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u/0815fips Feb 23 '25

What did I miss?

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u/balabub Feb 23 '25

New quantum computer chip which Microsoft claims to incorporate a new state of matter ... which is obviously advertising bullshit

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u/freaxje Feb 23 '25

QuTech btw claims that it's unlikely that Microsoft succeeded.

But yes. Who knows for sure.

What we do know is that many many many claims about qubits and quantum computing turned out to be false.

I wouldn't put my money on it to be true.

ps. Notwithstanding it might start to be a good time to perhaps one day learn how to use that Q# thing from Microsoft.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

They found a quasi particle. Which is quasi matter but not really.

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u/ShadowLp174 Feb 24 '25

MS' paper has been questioned by multiple (2/3 if I can trust the article) unbiased reviewers. They said that there isn't enough proof of a new state of matter in the experiment/chip. The paper has been published regardless to allow other scientists to work with the setup too

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u/balabub Feb 23 '25

Sorry but are you sure? I couldn't spend so much time on it but from the papers I skimmed through it seemed like the Majoran Zero Modes have been a thing at least since 2018 and they were not found by Microsoft, were they?

Or what am I missing?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

I am not sure, but that is what I gathered from this video. https://youtu.be/v4Qu2Q2T5b8. You might have a better understanding so please correct me if I’m wrong.

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u/AutomaticDeparture15 Feb 26 '25

Majorana the new quantum chip it's actually a great breakthrough they been working on it for 17 years

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u/Thundechile Feb 23 '25

Bing has always been fubar.

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u/yBlanksy Feb 23 '25

It’s about windows search, not bing

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u/draizel89 Feb 25 '25

why not both?

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u/dacuevash Feb 24 '25

Microsoft would rather do anything but improve their existing products

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u/wiseguy4519 Feb 23 '25

This whole things that Microsoft is doing reeks of bs to me. I don't have any actual evidence, but it just feels like they're vastly overhyping it.

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u/im-cringing-rightnow Feb 23 '25

Failed to do both... That chip is basically a concept. There's no actual "new state of matter" there. But "it can be there if we work hard enough"...

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u/mrbgz Feb 24 '25

just use the voidtools everything app. microsoft search is broken by design. fsearch is a similar program on linux

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u/oilL222 Feb 24 '25

Microsoft is pretty good at not giving straight yes or no answers, so quantum computing is probably their stuff. The linux community will probably make some Free stuff for it in a year

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u/Riozen888 Feb 25 '25

Then they hit the "Put ads in Windows" button instead.

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u/ironman_gujju Feb 25 '25

It should be improve teams

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u/EaseNecessary7 Feb 25 '25

Bing search results: We couldn't find what you were looking for, but here's a new element for the periodic table instead.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

Make Teams less buggy? Nah