The firm has also experimented with portfolio optimisation, in which analysts seek well-performing investment strategies.

该公司也测试投资组合优化，帮助分析师找到表现优异的投资策略。

Critics of D-Wave as optimisation approach really frustrate Alan.

D-Wave 作为优化方法的批评者确实让 Alan 感到沮丧。

But this model is only part of Amazon's supply-chain optimisation.

但这种模式只是亚马逊供应链优化的一部分。

And annealing is extremely good at solving optimisation problems.

退火非常擅长解决优化问题。

It just does one problem: optimisation.

它只解决一个问题：优化。

Optimisation is an application that quantum computer researchers have been talking about for years.

优化是量子计算机研究人员多年来一直在谈论的应用。

It's known as an exponentially hard or an NP-hard optimisation problem.

它被称为指数困难或 NP 困难优化问题。

And Alan says optimisation problems are everywhere.

艾伦说优化问题无处不在。

But the more immediate and more positive effect is that the digital twin allows for up-to-the-minute route optimisations through ever-changing city traffic.

但更直接、更积极的效果是，数字孪生能够在不断变化的城市交通中实现最新的路线优化。

They do one thing and one thing only: solve optimisation problems.

他们只做一件事：解决优化问题。

Frankly, most of the important hard problems that businesses need to solve are optimisation problems.

坦率地说，企业需要解决的大部分重要难题都是优化问题。

With a number of initiatives to include quantum optimisation, we've got this wait times down to under an hour, which was the target.

通过包括量子优化在内的多项举措，我们已将等待时间缩短到一个小时以下，这就是我们的目标。

Technology-intensive: the semiconductor industry is a technology-intensive industry that requires continuous research and development and optimisation of new technologies and products.

半导体行业是一个技术密集型的行业，需要不断进行新技术和新产品的研发和优化。

You can apply that to any type of optimisation through automotive.

您可以将其应用于汽车领域的任何类型的优化。

But then Markowitz came in and basically imposed pretty rigorous math and optimisation ideas on investing.

但后来马科维茨进来， 基本上对投资强加了相当严格的数学和优化思想。

People who have witnessed up close the relationship between the company's engineers and those who employ their services describe a painstaking process of optimisation.

亲眼目睹了公司工程师与雇用他们服务的人之间关系的人们描述了一个艰苦的优化过程。

And I met their CEO last week and then after him, it, you know, a lot of optimisation strategies, a lot of math.

上周我遇到了他们的CEO， 然后是他之后，你知道，很多优化策略，很多数学。

And there's one category of optimisation problems that is so complex and requires so much calculation time that only a quantum computer really has a shot.

还有一类优化问题非常复杂并且需要大量计算时间， 以至于只有量子计算机才能真正发挥作用。

But on the third, a type to which it is ideally suited (quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation, since you ask), D-Wave's machine dominated, racing through the job around 3,600 times faster than the classical hardware.

但到了第三个题目（如果你一定要问是什么的话也不妨告诉你：无约束二进制最优化问题），D-ware的机器表现得更好，比一般硬件配置的电脑要快约3600倍。

That's one of the reasons why it can be hard to gauge the actual impact D-Wave System is having on real-world problems like the optimisation puzzle at the port.

这就是为什么很难衡量 D-Wave 系统对港口优化难题等现实问题的实际影响的原因之一。