• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Magic state distillation, meanwhile, is a filtering process by which the highest quality magic states are “purified”

    Yeah, okay

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      22 hours ago

      This sentence is shit, but I want to point out at least that “magic” is jargon for “well-behaved” or “particularly well-suited (for our application)”. It’s essentially “magic” like in the phrase “it works like magic”.

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      It does read like something Carl Segan might have said after smoking Gandalf’s magic pipe weed.