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Quantum annealing, provided by companies like D-Wave, have been around for many years now. D-Wave has yet to convince the industry that q annealing will ever be relevant at all. Their past attempts have always been with lots of holes and criticism. So my question is, where is quantum annealing heading in general? Is there any hope for it to be relevant enough, where it is solving commercially meaningful problems either faster or cheaper than the alternatives?

https://www.quera.com/press-releases/quera-announces-2028-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-and-expanded-multi-year-strategic-collaboration-with-aws

256 logical qubits with 10^-6 error rate (99.9999% 2q fidelity??) in two years. QuEra offers analog Hamiltonian quantum computers, not digital gate-based - what does that mean for their statement?

While I believe that women can be great leads or follows, I'm beginning to wonder if men (in general, not as exception) can become good followers. Nature doesn't make male bodies as flexible as women's. Our hip rotation and disassociation is nowhere near as much as women's. So men's ochos typically feel very different. Even our walking isn't the same due to the differences in pelvic motion. Our muscle development is very different from women's muscles. On average can tangueros become as good followers as tangueras, or is there just a nature-imposed ceiling?

Do older or middle-aged people dance bachata, especially in North America or is it mostly people in 20's and 30's? What is the oldest age you have seen anyone dance at socials, as a leader or a follower?