But for physical simulations, which can
tolerate small margins of error, 30 to 40 qubits could already be useful, Martinez says.
When I think of veteran painters like Raoul de Keyser ensconced in the
small Belgian town of Deinze, or the reclusive expatriate James Bishop who has spent much of the last half century hiding out in the French countryside, the first lines of John Ashbery's poem «Soonest Mended» pop into my mind: «Barely
tolerated, living on the
margin / In our technological society.»