If someone is unfamiliar with the common English term or is understands it is "by habit" but isn't getting the implicit comparison with a practice following an understanding of the underlying process it, like the image of "cargo cult" referenced in the metaphor, may need expanded a bit on first encounter, but it is both more concise, and uses direct denotation rather than metaphor.
The quantum performance thing is real, but that the random circuit sampling problem they are tabling as the benchmark here is for a quantum circuit.
So really what is being claimed is that classical computers can't easily simulate quantum ones. But is that really surprising?
What would be surprising would be that kind of speedup vs classical on some kind of general optimization algorithm. I don't think that is what they are claiming though, even if it does kind of seem like it's being presented that way.
Three grams of explosives in each device used by a hostile military organization.
I don't think it could possibly be more targeted. Literally just devices issued by Hezbollah themselves to their own members.
Maybe it wasn't perfect. That seems to be the bar you are setting.
But much closer to perfect than I would have imagined possible. And closer to perfect than I think most people would have imagined. Maybe that is aggravating to people ideologically set against literally anything they might do.
But far superior, and less disruptive to innocent people to tactics used elsewere by Israel. Far far more more targeted and less disruptive to innocent people than the tactics used by Hezbollah themselves.
I think it would look something like that if you were looking directly east, since the distance and the perspective would bring it to the vanishing point in the center of the image.
So, from that POV, the rings would not be able to go past the center of the image.
This view would still be possible if this is a cropped down section of a larger image that was pointed slightly to the left I think.
If you have some terminology you don't like, provide an alternative.
Main is fine.
But like what is the alternative to cargo cult provided here? It's a very concise representation of a pretty complex idea.
"You are valuing the ritual associated with an outcome instead of the outcome."
Is that my alternative?
Main is more concise than master. But how do I boil that down without saying "cargo cult"?