RANDOM RANTDUMB Call it Quantum and you get people to go "oooh!".* sigh I read this.* Interesting read.* Looks very useful.* COULD it be called Quantum annealing?* Sure.* But it could also be called, *"HEY LET'S USE 2 VARIABLES instead of 1 in the height dimension and make it shakey (quantum) so then we get... THREEEEE DIMENSIONS OOOOOOooooOOOooOOOo I hate BS wrapped up in spooky fundable terms like Quantum and Spin Glass (everybody loves Spin Glass now - all the rage; I like it too because it has... MEMORYYYY PROPERTIESSS.... just like USSSSSSssss".... [ so do a lot of things that we humans have* trouble writing the formulas to get math to predict ... because _MATH is fundamentally one dimensional itself ... ya-know... the *number line?* - and we get all spooked over Pi because it's circle drawn in TWO DIMENSIONSS........ and doesn't fit in 1 dimension and cracks the number line.* duh . ] Not knocking math or the research... just the spookiness factor of it.* It's still cool but JUST CALL IT RANDOMIZED at key points instead of quantum and skip the BS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing#cite_note-8