{"id":107572,"date":"2026-06-24T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=031519c063691e6a9d7439b9edbf9908"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:37:18","slug":"boffin-claims-microsofts-quantum-leap-is-invalid-due-to-basic-python-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=107572","title":{"rendered":"Boffin claims Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;quantum leap&#8221; is invalid due to &#8220;basic Python errors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/research\/2026\/06\/24\/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors\/5260489\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Experimental code appears to be wildly incorrect, some of it in a way that looks like the people writing it _may_ have been trying to hide that it's bogus (or it's just bad code that produced something appealing, and they got excited, it happens). Array indices do in fact correlate with... themselves.\nPublished without anyone internal noticing to much hype, now people can see the code and call BS. \nThe fabulous state of the Quantum field, on display.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=48661535\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=107572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}