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   :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:19:28 JST :ihavenomouth:
   remember that time microsoft discovered a new state of matter, promised preorders for quantum chips, and forgot about it three days later?
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:21:55 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Inginsub wat?
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:22:24 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @coolboymew microsoft majorana chips
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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:22:28 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @Inginsub >Takes 10 years to create topological superconducting quantum processors with potential near-zero decoherence rates
     >Does nothing with them
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:22:43 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @Forestofenchantment their xbox division was working on those before getting culled
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:23:45 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Inginsub With a name like that I was sure you're fucking with me, but apparently not
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:31:08 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @coolboymew I won't pretend like I understand what majorana is, but apparently they published gigabytes (if not terabytes) of raw data, in which like two or three data points matched what they wanted to see, and called the discovery
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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:34:36 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @Inginsub @coolboymew The benefit of Majorana is that the qubits are positioned in a way so that they lessen the chance of crosstalk.
     
     "FIGURE D.1 Schematic of a one-dimensional (1D) system supporting Majorana
     zero modes. Each spinless fermion decomposes into two Majorana fermions, one
     on each site (denoted by γ’s and shown in red). The Majoranas pair in the bulk
     (denoted by the thick lines connecting them), leaving two zero-energy Majorana
     modes at the ends of the chain. The large spatial separation between the two ends
     underlies the resistance to decoherence of quantum computing implemented in
     this architecture. SOURCE: J. Alicea, Y. Oreg, G. Refael, F. von Oppen, and M.P.A.
     Fisher, 2011, Non-Abelian statistics and topological quantum information process-
     ing in 1D wire networks, Nature Physics 7(5):412-417."
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     ICScaryThings (icst@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 08:54:56 JST ICScaryThings

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     @Inginsub @coolboymew it was all Indians working on that thing from what I remember, so I just assumed the whole thing was fake/a scam which is probably true
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