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Thank you for the demo. This helped me understand the recent quantum computing (quantum annealing) process a little more concretely.

What I saw here was a scrambled image being sorted to find a local minima of entropy in pixel color value between respective stripes. A quantum annealing computer is doing is, where the image is the problem space (scrambled because we dont have the solution), and the quantum computer rearranges this to find global minima/maxima.

Where a QC is not useful would be when the problem space is too big (image too big), or it can only find a local minima that isn't the solution to the classical problem (picture is still objectively after annealing)

please comment someone if my understanding is wrong




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