For the non-computer scientists, can you explain in a nutshell what D-Wave's team is doing, at least in the Nature article?
"Our hips face inwards so our knees face inwards, and the leg sways outside — just to explain that in a nutshell.
According to Byrne, the main challenge in this writing technique "was more emotional than technical: to write simple heartfelt tunes without drawing on cliché." He later explained, "In a nutshell, Brian wrote most of the music, and I composed most of the vocal melodies and lyrics, and then sang them".
"It explains, in a nutshell, why polling shows attitudes about the law to be at best mixed," she said.
That divergence explains, in a nutshell, why governments need an antitrust policy.
And I, you know, the way I explain that in a nutshell is that I used to practice clinical medicine, taking care of patients; now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.
Can you explain it, in a nutshell?
"He was heroic by nature," he says as if that explains it in a nutshell.
"Everything has a story and the problem is, as you know, the attention span of everybody is so short and if it's at all complicated people get confused and it's very difficult to explain some of these things in a nutshell," he said, making no apologies.
Can you explain your work, in a nutshell?
