‘… there are more red flags here than in a People’s Liberation Army parade. To critique this paper is not quite “shooting fish in a barrel,” because the fish are already dead before we’ve reached the end of the abstract.’
– Scott Aaronson, commenting on a paper on a paper from HSBC and IBM claiming to use a quantum computer to get a 34% advantage in predictions of financial trading data
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2025, October 3). The fish are already dead [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/the-fish-are-already-dead/
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