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: an employer's demand for accelerated output without increased pay
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I'd like to see some speedup in the selection process.
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Some of these speedups are exponential in scale, as demonstrated by the examples above; others are less dramatic but still amount to a significant gain over classical computers.
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Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The exponential speedup offered by Willow enables these companies to tackle problems previously deemed intractable, fostering innovation and competitive advantage.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
Machine learning applications will take longer to mature, since the most convincing speedups are from algorithms that require a quantum version of random access memory, which is not yet available.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
As an example on the software side, Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50x speedup in performance.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2018
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Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The exponential speedup offered by Willow enables these companies to tackle problems previously deemed intractable, fostering innovation and competitive advantage.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
Machine learning applications will take longer to mature, since the most convincing speedups are from algorithms that require a quantum version of random access memory, which is not yet available.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
As an example on the software side, Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50x speedup in performance.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2018
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“Speedup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speedup. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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