Go here to connect your wallet. Rose is equally calm about it; all that wrestling must have left him with a thick skin. But its investors include the storied Menlo Park, Calif. Last May a professor at Amherst College published the results of a bake-off she ran between a D-Wave and a conventional computer, and she concluded that the D-Wave had performed 3, times faster. Once Rose and D-Wave had committed to the adiabatic model, they proceeded with dispatch. With that in mind, he and his colleagues made an important and still controversial decision. Demos Replicate Toggle. Tune in next month to find out! So Rose switched to a different approach called adiabatic quantum computing, which is if anything even weirder and harder to explain.