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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

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

Yeah, okay

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, he was good at explaining things

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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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