Quantum Computing Now

What's going on with this podcast? Is it dead? Is Ethan dead? Find out all that and more on this exciting installment of Quantum! Computing! Now!

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For some reason the audio was all weird for this recording and the recording cut off at the end before I finished up. That's okay though, I just went through the exercises for that video by myself and the summary I put down was "see day 14" because it was basically the same content

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In which Jan Goetz teaches me about how superconducting quantum computers work.

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In which whurley and I talk about the challenges and promises involved in bringing quantum computing to a wider audience

The burden of proof lies on the side of the people saying quantum computing is impossible. Agree or disagree? In this episode Scott Aaronson talks about why he thinks it's true!

In which Roger and I talk about Yao, mostly

Classical and Quantum – a match made in heaven. And in the labs of Quantum Machines.

What the difference between football and quantum computing?

How much funding they each get – take that however you would like

In which Jon and I debunk some common quantum computing myths and have a bit of fun in the process

Also Happy 4th of July everyone!

In a world where quantum computers put the entire fate of encrypted messaging on the line, only one man can stop them… cue action shots and tense music

Just kidding of course, Mike Brown works with a whole company that can stop them! Listen to this episode to learn more about the real-world work that’s going on behind the scenes, and less about this awesome summer thriller movie concept I just came up with.

Call me, Hollywood ;)

Join Steve and I as we talk about the fact that quantum computing is different from high performance computing (among other topics). Real earth-shattering news you can only find right-here on quantum computing now.

Everyone always asks "what is a quantum amplifier" but never "how is a quantum amplifier." Well in this episode I got to ask just that! (or rather, how is an amplifier quantum?) Dr. Olivia Lanes was my incredible guest who taught me a lot about all sorts of hardware surrounding superconducting qubits, although we focused on quantum amplifiers for the most part.

Quantum computing and the space race share some commonalities if you ask Jack and I, but that’s not all we’re here to talk about today. Join Jack Ceroni and myself for a discussion of pennylane, QML, getting started with quantum, and what in the world are QNodes?

If only the progress of quantum computing could also help me not bounce from idea to idea like a pin ball...

In which I give the details of an interesting project I’ve been working on

In which I refresh the list I gave a while back and actually make good on the promise of talking about ALL the frameworks (because I speedrun 2 lists of them at the end of the show)

In which Matthew Weiss and I talk about quantum spheres and Amir Ebrahimi and I talk about visualizing pulse generation.

In which Brandon and I spend a while chatting about his experience with the Quantum Open Source Foundation Mentorship program (which you can apply for now!), and the project he worked on as part of that. Make sure you listen until we start trying to describe code over audio ;)

In which Mike and I talk about the reasons trust is so important in bitcoin & blockchain, how quantum computers could erode that trust, and why QRL allows that trust to be maintained, even in the face of a quantum threat.

Amir (VP of R&D at Classiq, a quantum software startup) and I talk about how Quantum Volume is measured and how we in the public should interpret the results that come from it. While the metric does have some flaws, it’s still a good general-purpose single-number way to compare devices.

I had a great time talking with Dr. Zlatko Minev in this episode! We got to talk about new quantum physics, error correction, and qiskit community, as well as quantum mechanics for doing the dishes

I had an excellent, thoroughly entertaining, and long chat with Peter Johnson from Zapata Computing. We got to talk a lot about VQE, quantum advantage, and new algorithms that try to squeeze performance out of quantum hardware. 

Ethan talks with Nathan Shammah about unitary fund, open science, and science communication 

In this episode I sit down with Johan Vos to talk about his new book Quantum Computing for Developers

Ethan and Anisha Musti chat about what’s going on in the world of quantum, and Ethan learns a thing or two about quantum machine learning. 

In this episode Ethan relinquishes the reigns to a guest: Quantum Intuition!

I had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Anastasia Marchenkova, a QC researcher/programmer/does-everything-extraordinaire at Bleximo to talk about how quantum computing has progressed, where it's going, and how it can be leveraged in the short term with NISQ devices

In this episode I sit down with Abe Asfaw to talk about all things qiskit, quantum computing education, and quantum programming. Oh and I hope you like interviews because I have a lot coming up :)

Can you even call it "news" if it's 3 months old? Maybe it should be tagged with [olds]

    • General Info on post-quantum cryptography

What even is a Quantum Computer? What is a qubit? Does Ethan even know what he's talking about? {SPOILER} No one does...