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by negativ0 3290 days ago
too bad "rigetti" in Italian means literally "you puke"
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reikonomusha 3290 days ago
Unlike Italian, the company name is pronounced with a hard G. And as far as I know, "rigetti" in Italian is "you discard".

Take it as discarding the transistor era of computing for wonderful qubit era. :D

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tomdre 3290 days ago
It's both "discard", "puke", and "throw again"
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spullara 3290 days ago
it is the founder's last name.
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