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DWave quantum computer company (pic1 screencap) is receiving investments from blue-chip (i.e. high-dollar) investors, listed in the 2-part screen cap:
Sources if unspecified: wikipedia
Bezos Expeditions - see pic2
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is an American venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. In 2015, DFJ was identified as one of the top investors of billion-dollar startups
BDC Business Development Bank of Canada. Pic3
GrowthWorks Capital Ltd is a Canadian venture capital firm investing in early stage technology companies. GrowthWorks has $170 million of assets under management across three funds: Working Opportunity Fund Venture Series, Working Opportunity Fund Commercialization Series and the Atlantic Venture Fund. Founded in 1992, the Working Opportunity Fund has invested $600 million in 130 BC technology companies.
IIU Uh-oh. Might be International Islamic University, Islamabad Pakistan. See pic4 IIU Capital Ltd. Bloomberg listing.
Kensington smart alternatives
Harris Corporation is an American technology company, defense contractor and information technology services provider that produces wireless equipment, tactical radios, electronic systems, night vision equipment and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense and commercial sectors. They specialize in surveillance solutions, microwave weaponry, and electronic warfare.
In-Q-Tel, formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability. The name, "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.
Goldman Sachs
Bezos likely the Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com
Harris is a defense contractor.
In-Q-Tel is CIA
Goldman Sachs is a top investment bank with their tentacles in everything profitable including governments worldwide
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This is your last riddle. I'm busy digging.
There is no such time. If the little hand is pointing straight down it's 30 minutes past the hour and the big hand could not be pointing straight up at the 12; it would be halfway between 12 and 1.
Fail.
Continuing the list of venture capital that DWave Systems brags about.
Kensington smart alternatives logo appears to be Kensington Capital Partners, a Toronto based investment firm in the business of wealth creation, providing our investors with access to high quality investments for …
[Search domain www.kcpl.ca]
So summarizing the list of venture capital involved in DWave:
Jeff Bezos
BDC - Canada
Growthworks - Canada
IIU - likely Pakistan
Kensington - Canada
Harris - USA
In-Q-Tel - USA - CIA
Goldman Sachs - USA + international
The Pakistan connection really has me troubled. What's up with that?
And I don't trust our northern neighbor anymore either, with J. Trudeau in power.
The full wikipedia article on DWave is pretty interesting (to a technogeek):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
A few snippets that caught my eye:
…In 2013 a configuration with 439 qubits outperformed a conventional machine by 3,600x times, solving problems with 100 or more variables in half a second compared with half an hour on the conventional machine using CPLEX, the best algorithm for that problem. …
…In 2013 researchers found indirect evidence of qantum entanglement in the D-Wave chips…
This technology is reportedly especially good at pattern matching. Like finding a protein in a large database that has characteristics similar to a known protein. (medical application → computational bioscience)
Or matching an image with a database of images….
…machine learning…
No one knows whether "D-Wave's quantum computer is intrinsically equivalent to a classical computer or not. So until more is known about their error rates, caveat emptor is the least one can say″ according to a professor.
Some skepticism and controversy surrounds the product.
IBM Research published in 2014 suggesting DWave may not actually be a quantum computer
How you measure its performance depends on what kind of problem it is given to solve. Work ongoing to identify which classes of problems it is best suited for
(all from Wikpedia article)