I forgot to link to Sunday’s New York Times article about D-Wave and their controversial claim to have made a working quantum computer, which prominently features quotes from the world’s second funniest physics blogger:
Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada, fired the first shot. He wrote in his much-read blog, called “Shtetl-Optimized,” that Orion would be as useful at problem-solving as “a roast beef sandwich.” In an e-mail message to me, Dr. Aaronson denounced Orion as “hype.” He said that he could not “think of any interpretation under which” Dr. Rose was “telling the truth.”
Weirdly, this is in the business section. Anyway, Scott has more on his blog, if you want to know more about the whole sordid affair.