"In other words, even if you could implement adiabatic optimization perfectly—at zero temperature, with zero decoherence -- we still don't know whether there's any quantum speedup to be had that way, for any of the nifty applications that the article mentions:
'software design, tumor treatments, logistical planning, the stock market, airlines schedules, the search for Earth-like planets in other solar systems, and in particular machine learning'"
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"In other words, even if you could implement adiabatic optimization perfectly—at zero temperature, with zero decoherence -- we still don't know whether there's any quantum speedup to be had that way, for any of the nifty applications that the article mentions: 'software design, tumor treatments, logistical planning, the stock market, airlines schedules, the search for Earth-like planets in other solar systems, and in particular machine learning'"