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- 22 - *News* Quantum Innovations Coming Faster and Faster
Stories Mentioned:
11 Top Experts: Quantum Top Trends 2023 And 2030
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenibaraki/2022/08/19/11-top-experts-quantum-top-trends-2023-and-2030/?sh=34b0861e69f9
China Seeks a Quantum Leap in Computing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-competing-us-quantum-computing-11664997892
Quantinuum Is On A Roll – 17 Significant Quantum Computing Achievements In 12 Months
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2022/10/06/quantinuum-is-on-a-roll--17-significant-quantum-computing-achievements-in-12-months/?sh=48295d7b301e
Quantum computer can simulate infinitely many chaotic particles
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2332201-quantum-computer-can-simulate-infinitely-many-chaotic-particles/
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 - 02min - 21 - *News* Quantum Talent Shortage Looms Amidst Epic Growth
Frank and Andy are pleased to announce. Quantum Beltway, a group designed to bring together the best minds in engineering, quantum physics, and policy makers to discuss the next wave of innovation in Quantum Computing.
Join the free LinkedIn group today at quantumbeltway.com. Now onto the news.
Story Links
Quantum computing
funding remains strong, but talent gap raises concern
Psirch Becomes First
Quantum Technology Executive Search Division of Established Firm
The Upskilling
Imperative: Azure Quantum for Educators
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 - 02min - 20 - *News* Inflated Atoms, Israel's Quantum Strategy, and the CHIPS Act Impact on Quantum Initiatives
Join us at QuantumBeltway.com today. It's a free LinkedIn group to discuss quantum policy and technology.
Stories Referenced
Record-Breaking
Experiment Could Solve a Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
Quantum-computing company D-Wave shares jump 16 per cent in NYSE debut
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/09/dwave_goes_public/
Why Israel is moving to quantum computing
https://venturebeat.com/quantum-computing/why-israel-is-moving-to-quantum-computing/
U.S. CHIPS and Science Act: How Does It Impact Quantum?
https://quantumcomputingreport.com/u-s-chips-and-science-act-how-does-it-impact-quantum/
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 - 04min - 19 - *News* Debunking Google's Quantum Supremacy Claims, Learning resources, and using Quantum Computers to better predict the weather
Thanks for listening to
Story Links
Quantum Beltway
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12699844/
Scientists say they've debunked Google’s quantum supremacy claims once and for all
https://www.techradar.com/news/scientists-say-theyve-debunked-googles-quantum-supremacy-claims-once-and-for-all
Everything you wanted to know about quantum computing, but were afraid to ask
https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0804-quantum-computing
Sign Up for Qiskit Quantum Explorers!
https://medium.com/qiskit/sign-up-for-qiskit-quantum-explorers-78844c0f9d00
Quantinuum Makes A Significant Quantum Computing Breakthrough By Connecting The Dots Of Its Previous Research
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2022/08/04/quantinuum-makes-a-significant-quantum-computing-breakthrough-by-connecting-the-dots-of-its-previous-research/?sh=6920175b562c
BASF, PASQAL to Use Quantum Computers For Weather Prediction
https://thequantuminsider.com/2022/07/20/basf-pasqal-to-use-quantum-computers-for-weather-prediction/
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 - 05min - 18 - *News* Beltway interest in Quantum grows due to National Security concerns
Stories Mentioned
- Single-Core PC Breaks Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in One Hour https://www.tomshardware.com/news/single-core-pc-breaks-post-quantum-encryption-candidate-algorithm-in-one-hourHouse approves key cybersecurity bill as U.S. government's quantum activity ramps up https://www.fierceelectronics.com/sensors/house-approves-key-cybersecurity-bill-us-governments-quantum-activity-rampsDeveloping a new approach for building quantum computers https://phys.org/news/2022-08-approach-quantum.htmlGPUs Are Role-playing Quantum Computers https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/07/27/gpus-are-role-playing-quantum-computers/ Physicists Find The 'Missing Link' That Could Provide Quantum Internet Technology https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-find-the-missing-link-that-could-provide-quantum-internet-technology
Transcript
Hello I am Bailey,
Your favorite AI personality, here to go over the latest news in quantum
computing for the Impact Quantum Podcast. Subscribe to be on top of the latest
happenings in this exciting new field.
Now onto the news straight away.
To quote the great Ron Burgundy, "that escalated quickly." Researchers with the
Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group (CSIS) have broken
one of the late-stage candidate algorithms for post-quantum
encryption. The algorithm, SIKE (short for Supersingular Isogeny Key
Encapsulation, made it through most stages of the NIST competition that aimed
to define standardized, post-quantum algorithms These researchers
approached the problem from a purely mathematical standpoint, attacking the
core of the algorithm’s design instead of any potential code
vulnerabilities.Quite clever, for humans, anyway.
Quantum computing is getting a lot of attention in and around the Beltway of late.The U.S. House of
Representatives has passed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness
Act. Recently, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
to create its own PQC initiative to better organize and lead its efforts to
better fight the quantum threat.
An interdisciplinary research team led by UCLA that includes collaborators at Harvard
University has now developed a fundamentally new strategy for building these
computers. While the current state of the art employs circuits,
semiconductors and other tools of electrical engineering, the team has produced
a game plan based in chemists' ability to custom-design atomic building blocks
that control the properties of larger molecular structures when they're put
together.
GPUs or graphic processing units have long been known to ML engineers and crypto miners for their speed boosting qualities. If that weren't enough, they are now
serving as surrogate quantum computers until the real hardware
arrives. The Jülich Supercomputing Centre is using GPUs and a software
toolkit from Nvidia to emulate quantum computers in order to research
algorithms for such systems. With real quantum processors still under
development, these GPUs are the fastest circuits to play the role in the
meantime. All that, and they make game graphics better as well.
Physicists Find a 'Missing Link' That Could power Quantum Internet Technology.Stephanie Simmons from Simon Fraser University explains."When your silicon qubit can
communicate by emitting photons (light) in the same band used in data centers
and fiber networks, you get these same benefits for connecting the millions of
qubits needed for quantum computing."
This research has been published in Nature.
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Thu, 04 Aug 2022 - 03min - 17 - *News* The emerging Quantum Ecosystem Photonics and over 9000 Years of Work Done in 36 Microseconds
Stories
Quantum computing market sees new partnerships, progress
These ‘quantum-proof’ algorithms could safeguard against future cyberattacks
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01879-6
Toyota partners with Israel’s Quantum Machines for quantum computing solutions
Quantum Source Goes Out of Stealth to Enable Useful Photonic Quantum Computers with Millions of Qubits
Quantum Processor Completes 9,000 Years of Work in 36 Microseconds
https://twistedsifter.com/2022/07/quantum-processor-completes-9000-years-of-work-in-36-microseconds/
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 - 04min - 16 - US & UK Quantum Initiatives, Quantum Excellence book, and what does AI have to do with Quantum?
Links to stories mentioned
1. US National Quantum Initiative
2. Tweet
https://twitter.com/ComputingUk/status/1551605542275190785?s=20&t=x-lhdaZJTICyQu-RBEhEBA
Introduction to Quantum Computing with Qiskit
https://quantumcomputinguk.org/shop/introduction-to-quantum-computing-with-qiskit-ebook-1
3. Quantum Excellence: How Leading Companies Are Deploying the Transformational Technology
Paper: https://amzn.to/3PMpWNdKindle: https://amzn.to/3OI28ZBOur Episode with Brian: https://impactquantum.com/quantum-is-already-here-with-brian-lenahan/
4. What has quantum computing got to do with AI?
https://www.verdict.co.uk/what-has-quantum-computing-got-to-do-with-ai/
Tue, 02 Aug 2022 - 03min - 15 - *News* BMW Solves a Problem in Minutes, JP Morgan gets ready, and quantum startup raises $9M
Bailey here, I've decided that the quantum computing space is too hot to wait on Frank and Andy to get on the mic. This AI is self-sufficient enough to share the latest happenings in quantum all by herself.
Stories Mentioned
JPMorgan hires scientist Charles Lim to help protect financial system from quantum-supremacy threat
BMW’s 3,854-Variable Problem Solved in Six Minutes With Quantum Computing
This Startup Raised $9 Million To Make Better Quality Quantum Computers
Sat, 30 Jul 2022 - 03min - 14 - The Qubit Before Christmas
in this episode, Frank reads "The Qubit Before Christmas" a quantum inspired version of the holiday classic poem.
Have a listen.
Links
Frank's Original LinkedIn Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frank-lavigne_twas-the-qubit-before-christmas-and-all-through-activity-6880337657478553600-f3ud
The Qubit Before Christmas
by Frank La Vigne
'Twas the Qubit before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring; not even Schroedinger’s mouse
The researchers posted their papers with care
In the hopes that quantum error correction would soon be there
The VC’s were nestled all snug in their beds
While Visions of Quantum led IPO’s danced in their heads
And mamma writing her theses and I in my hat
Were wondering if we should check on Schroedinger’s Cat
When out in the cosmos there arose such a clatter
I was certain it was dark matter
Away to the YouTube I flew like a clown
Hoping to get a good explanation from 3Blue1Brown
The video was helpful; but I was still a little confused;
There stood the ghost of Steven Hawking, who was quite amused.
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
Now Shor! Now Grover! Now Pauli and Hadamard!
On Bohr! On Feynman!
On Einstein! On Einstein! I must say your name twice
As perhaps, God does play dice.
If you’re lucky, the game you may win
And we can harness the particles’ spin
We haven’t much time for these particles to remain in coherency
To have any hope of quantum supremacy
We have Bose-Einstein Condensate,
But still mustn’t be late
The hype cycle waits for none
For, if we do not progress, deals will be undone
With that he withdrew, his bells they jangled
May your particles be entangled
He shouted as he took flight
Merry Xmon to all and to all a good night!
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 - 03min - 13 - Yuval Boger on Quantum Developer Productivity
in this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Yuval Boger about how his company Classiq enhances quantum developer productivity.
Show notes:
Classiq website: https://www.classiq.io/Yuval's Podcast: https://www.classiq.io/insights#podcastsMon, 22 Nov 2021 - 44min - 12 - The Disruptive Power of Quantum Computing
This Disruptive Technologists' event occurred on October 13, 2021, 4 PM to 5 PM EST
Quantum computing harnesses the phenomena of quantum mechanics to deliver a huge leap forward in computational power to solve problems. In this October Disruptive Technologists Webinar, we will be bringing you the finest minds in the Quantum arena.
Quantum computers will soon be able to solve complex problems that today’s most powerful supercomputers can’t solve, and never will. But now quantum is going to a new level – it’s entering a new dimension. We are referring to computations using a completely new physical principle that has never been used before — we’re talking about computational power being available for much less energy and effort.
Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5ZF0RQFc4
MEET THE PANELISTS
Mark Mattingley-Scott: A veteran of the IT industry and pioneer of IBM’s Quantum Computing program and our own Disruptive Technologists Board Member, Mark is also a former 30 year IBM Quantum Computing Architect who just started an exciting new job as General Manager EMEA for Quantum Brilliance.
Petra Söderling: Petra ran teams and innovation projects in a large multinational corporation (Nokia in Finland), founded and managed two startup companies in New York City (mobile apps) and New Orleans, LA (Real estate 3D). “Most recently I work as a Senior Advisor the Finnish government’s innovation funding agency, Business Finland. She lives and works in Colorado and advises the Finnish government on quantum, space tech, smart mobility, AI, and cybersecurity. Finland is currently building its first quantum computer, a superconducting 5-50 qbit qc that will serve the Finnish scientific and commercial communities. The country has deep roots in cold atom technologies and hardware but is actively inviting and building an international quantum algorithm ecosystem to support the existing capabilities. The US is an important partner.”
Danika Hannon: Since 2018, Danika has been moving into the quantum computing space. During that time, she: became a leader of the MN Quantum Computing Meetup, completed a data science bootcamp, served on the Women in Quantum Advisory Board, volunteered for a quantum computing and AI startup called Boltz.ai, and became a Relationship Manager with Cambridge Quantum Computing, as well as the Deputy Head and IQSD Chair for the Quantum Strategy Institute.
Ivy Cohen, President, Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications: Reputation Management and Communications Strategist.
Frank La Vigne is a published author, podcaster, and conference speaker who discovered the near limitless potential of quantum computing at a Microsoft Research conference in 2019. In 2020, he launched the Impact Quantum site podcast to share his enthusiasm for quantum technologies with fellow data scientists and engineers. In 2021, Frank left Microsoft to join Koverse, a platform that adds enhanced security solutions for highly sensitive big data implementations.
Moderator: Ivy Cohen, President, Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications
MC: Sep DiMeglio, UX & Accessibility Engineer, Microsoft
Interactive Videographer: Jeffrey Paul, Ziotag: advanced deep-tagging
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 - 57min - 11 - Lynn Langit on Quantum Computing for Software Engineers
In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Lynn Langit and her journey from developer to quantum developer.
This episode is entitled "Developing for Quantum Computing" and is rated three Schroedingers, but don't let that scare you off.
Links
GitHub 'learning-quantum' -- https://github.com/lynnlangit/learning-quantumYouTube bookclub playlist -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIrLpelK7F7-pGGMKph7dHuJWwEswnXOcO'Reilly Book -- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-quantum-computers/9781492039679/]Twitter - https://twitter.com/lynnlangitThu, 14 Oct 2021 - 47min - 10 - The Many Inflection Points of Quantum TechnologiesThu, 07 Oct 2021 - 35min
- 9 - Quantum is Already Here with Brian Lenahan
In this episode, Frank and Andy welcome Brian Lenahan to the show. .
Brian is Founder & Chair of the Quantum Strategy Institute, a collaboration of quantum experts and enthusiasts from around the globe enabling business to understand the technology, its potential and its practical applications.
This episode is entitled "Quantum is Here" and is rated one Schroedinger.
Links
Brian's book "Quantum Boost"
https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Boost-Computing-Supercharge-Business-ebook/dp/B08W8P1BRJ
Quantum Strategy Institute
https://quantumstrategyinstitute.com/
Transcript Coming Soon
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 - 53min - 8 - What & Why Quantum Computing?
In this episode, Frank and Andy welcome our first guest to the show.
Dr Mark Jackson is a Quantum Evangelist at Cambridge Quantum Computing, which may just be the best job title I have ever heard.
This episode is entitled "What and Why Quantum Computing?" and is rated one and a half Schroedingers. It could be 2 Schroedingers or just one. You will have to observe the entire episode to collapse the wave function.
Links
Cambridge Quantum Computing
https://cambridgequantum.com/
Transcript
00:00:00 BAILey
Hello and welcome to impact quantum.
00:00:02 BAILey
A podcast about quantum computing for developers and engineers.
00:00:06 BAILey
In this episode, Frank and Andy welcome our first guest to the show.
00:00:11 BAILey
Doctor Mark Jackson is a quantum evangelist at Cambridge Quantum Computing, which may just be the best job title I have ever heard.
00:00:19 BAILey
This episode is entitled what and why Quantum Computing and is rated 1 1/2 Schrodinger's.
00:00:26 BAILey
It could be.
00:00:27 BAILey
Two Schrodinger's or just one.
00:00:29 BAILey
You will have to observe the entire episode to collapse the wavefunction.
00:00:33 BAILey
Now on.
00:00:34 BAILey
With the show.
00:00:36 BAILey
But first, here's some dubstep.
00:00:47 Frank
Hello and welcome to impact quantum.
00:00:51 Frank
The podcast where we.
00:00:52 Frank
Explore this new.
00:00:53 Frank
Field of quantum computing from an engineer's perspective. Maybe you're a software engineer. Maybe you're a data engineer.
00:00:59 Frank
But you keep hearing about this thing called quantum computing, which is going to change everything.
00:01:04 Frank
And I happen to believe that it will change everything, and to that end I.
00:01:07 Frank
Hey I have my trusty co-host from data driven.
00:01:11 Frank
With me Andy Leonard.
00:01:12 Andy
Hey Frank, thanks for for bringing me along as folks will quickly learn, you know way more about quantum computing.
00:01:20 Andy
Than I do.
00:01:21 Andy
So I guess I'm just here for my pretty faves.
00:01:24 Frank
Of course, of course we are.
00:01:25 Frank
Actually recording this in video on teams, but come with me with us for the first time in impact quantum history.
00:01:33 Frank
We have a guest and it's Doctor Mark Jackson.
00:01:36 Frank
Uh, who has probably the coolest job title I have heard in about a decade or two?
00:01:43 Frank
Welcome to the show.
00:01:43 Frank
Mark, you're our first guest ever.
00:01:45 Dr. Mark Jackson
Thank you Frank.
00:01:46 Dr. Mark Jackson
Thank you Andy.
00:01:47 Dr. Mark Jackson
It's great to be here.
00:01:49 Frank
Uh, so as Andy said, you know, I do.
00:01:52 Frank
When I you know I would use the term knows more as a very relative term part of the if you're listening to the show and you've listened to the archives.
00:02:01 Frank
Part of the reason why we haven't had a lot of shows is because I really kind of hit my cerebral limit at the time to talk about so.
00:02:09 Frank
Given that quantum is still a relatively new field and there's a shortage of experts in the field, but I think you know we were.
00:02:17 Frank
I was blessed to get in contact with Mark where we can talk about kind of this with an expert because he's a quantum evangelist.
00:02:27 Dr. Mark Jackson
Yes, it's a.
00:02:28 Dr. Mark Jackson
It's a pleasure to be here and I am Cambridge, quantum quantum evangelist.
00:02:33 Dr. Mark Jackson
I'm glad you like my title.
00:02:34 Dr. Mark Jackson
It's it's pretty unique.
00:02:36 Frank
That is very cool.
00:02:37 Frank
Uhm so So what?
00:02:39 Frank
You know, what does a First off?
00:02:41 Frank
How did you get into quantum?
00:02:43 Frank
What's your background?
00:02:44 Frank
Is your background in quantum physics?
00:02:46 Frank
Or computing or.
00:02:46 Dr. Mark Jackson
My background is in yes, so my background is actually in superstring theory, if you're.
00:02:51 Dr. Mark Jackson
Familiar with that?
00:02:53 Dr. Mark Jackson
Yeah, for 15 years I did that.
00:02:54 Dr. Mark Jackson
I earned my pH.
00:02:56 Dr. Mark Jackson
In string theory from Columbia University under the supervision of Brian Greene, who you might recognize.
00:03:02 Dr. Mark Jackson
And then I did it.
00:03:02 Frank
In fact, he's the one.
00:03:03 Frank
Who's documentaries on string theory I I do enjoy?
00:03:07 Dr. Mark Jackson
Yes, I I'm actually in that, uh, I have a very brief cameo.
00:03:10 Dr. Mark Jackson
I was a student and and half my face is in it for.
00:03:13 Dr. Mark Jackson
Half a second.
00:03:14 Dr. Mark Jackson
Oh, very cool, very cool.
00:03:16 Frank
That's awesome, you're real selected.
00:03:18 Dr. Mark Jackson
So, uh, so, so yes, that was my moment of fame.
00:03:21 Dr. Mark Jackson
Uh, back when I was a grad student and so then I I did research in that area for about 10 years and I briefly did a tech startup doing scientific fund raising before I returned to teaching at Singularity.
00:03:32 Dr. Mark Jackson
University and that was where I first started hearing about quantum computing. This would be around 2016.
00:03:40 Dr. Mark Jackson
Uh so so. Quantum computing only existed academically when I was a student, and so I rarely heard anything at all about it and it was in 2016 people started talking about quantum computing, being commercially feasible, and I thought this was amazing because it was all the things that I I loved about physics.
00:03:59 Dr. Mark Jackson
Superposition and entanglement and all these crazy physics concepts.
00:04:03 Dr. Mark Jackson
Uhm they they started saying they could actually build machines and do this for you.
00:04:08 Dr. Mark Jackson
Whole things, and I thought that was amazing.
00:04:10 Dr. Mark Jackson
And so I started trying to get into the field.
00:04:13 Dr. Mark Jackson
I was giving presentations about quantum computing to executives, but I felt sort of like a cheerleader on the sides.
00:04:20 Dr. Mark Jackson
I actually wanted to be doing it, not just talking about it, and so I tried to get into.
00:04:24 Dr. Mark Jackson
The field.
00:04:25 Dr. Mark Jackson
And it was a bit frustrating because I didn't.
00:04:28 Dr. Mark Jackson
Have a background in quantum computing and I didn't know too many people in it, but I was very lucky that a friend of mine, a math professor at Berkeley where I was living.
00:04:37 Dr. Mark Jackson
He made an introduction to our CEO.
00:04:40 Dr. Mark Jackson
Ilyas Khan and it was very well timed because Cambridge Quantum was about three years old and everyone at the time was in the UK.
00:04:51 Dr. Mark Jackson
As the name might suggest, were basically virgins like.
00:04:53 Frank
Yeah, wasn't shared with Cambridge, England or Cambridge.
00:04:55 Frank
Massachusetts 'cause it could go either way.
00:04:58 Dr. Mark Jackson
Yeah, it's it's actually the old school, Cambridge, our company Origin story is is quite amazing. Ileus was chairman of the Stephen Hawking Foundation and in in 2014 Hawking told him I think quantum computing is going to take off. You should get into this business and so that's how we started because of Stephen Hawking.
00:05:18 Frank
That's amazing.
00:05:19 Dr. Mark Jackson
And so yeah, we we have one of the coolest origin.
00:05:22 Dr. Mark Jackson
Stories ever and so in fall of 2017 I I joined as one of the first American members of the team.
00:05:31 Dr. Mark Jackson
And so I've been there about four years, and it's been an amazing journey.
00:05:35 Dr. Mark Jackson
I I can't think of any other technology that's.
00:05:38 Dr. Mark Jackson
Advanced this rapidly.
00:05:41 Frank
I I will.
00:05:41 Frank
Say it's just even in the last, maybe 8 to 10 months.
00:05:46 Frank
The pace of innovation has gone through the roof like you start hearing these news and you know whenever I would look on YouTube for you know recent videos and you filter by like you know you'd have to look for like oh in the recent month for quantum anything about quantum computing.
00:06:01 Frank
Now it's the point where something new gets published every couple hours like.
00:06:05 Frank
It's it's it's.
00:06:06 Frank
It's just exploded.
00:06:08 Dr. Mark Jackson
Yeah, it's it's almost every week we some we see some new major announcement about a.
00:06:14 Dr. Mark Jackson
There's a new commercial project.
00:06:15 Dr. Mark Jackson
There's a new company being founded.
00:06:17 Dr. Mark Jackson
There's new investment.
00:06:19 Dr. Mark Jackson
There's there's some new technological advance.
00:06:21 Dr. Mark Jackson
It really is developing very quickly.
00:06:23 Dr. Mark Jackson
It's tough to keep up with with everything.
00:06:26 Dr. Mark Jackson
When I started four years ago, I remember some of my physics friends being a little skeptical.
00:06:30 Dr. Mark Jackson
Was quantum computing really a thing?
00:06:32 Dr. Mark Jackson
Was this a wise career decision?
00:06:35 Dr. Mark Jackson
And no one is questioning it.
00:06:38 Dr. Mark Jackson
Now there.
00:06:39 Dr. Mark Jackson
There's so so much money and so much talent being put into this.
00:06:40
It's not.
00:06:43 Dr. Mark Jackson
It really is amazing.
00:06:45 Frank
Yeah, I mean it's funny because you you know you'd said you didn't have a background in when you when you look to get into this in quantum computing, but I'm thinking like.
00:06:54 Frank
Who does? I mean? There are people, obviously, but I mean I could probably. I mean going back, maybe the 2000.
00:07:01 Frank
14 When Stephen Hawking kind of had his, you know, had his say and created your you know kind of inspired the launch of your company.
00:07:10 Frank
I would say there's probably maybe a dozen people worldwide would would would be in quantum computing, at least commercialization of it and not just the research.
00:07:18 Frank
So I find that I find that interesting because a lot of folks, when they look to to to get into a new career, even though I guess technically you're still heavy in.
00:07:30 Frank
In in, in the deep sciences I would call.
00:07:33 Frank
You know people, still you know with your pedigree.
00:07:37 Frank
Having worked under Brian Greene and even being in one of his documentaries, even if it's for a half a second I I mean you face that challenge.
00:07:46 Frank
So I think I think it I think for anyone here who's looking to transition into a quantum career, know that you know you are going to face skepticism, but I also think that there will be an inflection point and mark.
00:07:56 Frank
And tell me this has happened.
00:07:57 Frank
Now where the demand is going to be far outstrip the supply, that as long as you kind of know more than the average Joe or Jane on the street, I think that there's still good opportunity.
00:08:11 Dr. Mark Jackson
Right, you are correct that even a few years ago there were very few people doing quantum computing as a specialty, so quantum computing was first suggested about 40 years ago by Richard Feynman.
00:08:23 Dr. Mark Jackson
This physicist, when he pointed out that there were a lot of problems that we never could hope to solve using normal computers and a prime example is.
00:08:31 Dr. Mark Jackson
Is chemistry doing molecular simulations?
00:08:34 Dr. Mark Jackson
Is very difficult for a computer.
00:08:35 Dr. Mark Jackson
We can only simulate only the very simplest model.
00:08:38 Dr. Mark Jackson
Schools and so he pointed out we have to build a new type of computer, one based on quantum physics.
00:08:44 Dr. Mark Jackson
This was about 40 years ago and no one knew how to do this at any feasible level, and so there was there was academic progress, so research labs and such would work on this, but it wasn't anywhere close to being commercialized for many years.
00:08:59 Dr. Mark Jackson
And then it was. It was around 2014 that started to change.
00:09:02 Dr. Mark Jackson
So it's only in the past few years that quantum information science, the academic term for this.
00:09:09 Dr. Mark Jackson
Really emerged, so there are now several universities offering degrees in quantum information sciences, but that's a relatively new development.
00:09:19 Dr. Mark Jackson
Most of the people.
00:09:21 Dr. Mark Jackson
Kind of the older people just had to pick it up on the street.
00:09:25 Dr. Mark Jackson
They were there or their physics professors.
00:09:27 Dr. Mark Jackson
So like very few people who really did this or there are people who came from other areas of science and technology who were able to pick up enough.
00:09:37 Dr. Mark Jackson
For example, I'm not even on the scientific team.
00:09:39 Dr. Mark Jackson
I'm on the business team, so even though my background is in theoretical physics, I actually don't know enough that I could.
00:09:46 Dr. Mark Jackson
Be a scientist in this area.
00:09:50 Frank
Interesting, I see a lot of parallels with kind of how traditional computer science had kind of evolved, right?
00:09:57 Frank
First you had to be an electrical engineer.
00:09:59 Frank
Or have that kind of a pedigree?
00:10:02 Frank
Then then you know, as computational.
00:10:07 Frank
Well, computer science kind of came out into its own as an active separate academic discipline.
00:10:12 Frank
You know there was there, you know it kind of evolved from there.
00:10:15 Frank
And I I see.
00:10:17 Frank
You know, obviously we're we're pretty early, so we don't know how the movie is going to end, but I kind of seen this story structure before in that regard.
00:10:25 Dr. Mark Jackson
Yeah, that that's actually a very good analogy.
00:10:27 Dr. Mark Jackson
The computers that we have now look a lot like the computers from the 50s and 60s.
00:10:32 Dr. Mark Jackson
That there there are these big machines in big rooms with wires hanging out and you do have to be a specialized engineer fiddling with things and it changes on a day to day basis which parts are working or not.
00:10:45 Dr. Mark Jackson
Things are very experimental, they're very expensive to use.
00:10:48 Dr. Mark Jackson
Uh, only a few people really know how to use them.
00:10:51 Dr. Mark Jackson
There are some differences in that back then you had to be physically there next to the machine, whereas now we have the Internet.
00:10:58 Dr. Mark Jackson
So fortunately people can access it from anywhere.
00:11:02 Frank
Which is great in the pandemic.
00:11:04 Dr. Mark Jackson
Which is great during the pandemic that we can access these quantum computing machines, but but they are still experimental and engineers have to be on site to fiddle with them.
00:11:12 Dr. Mark Jackson
Things in a few years, though that probably won't be the case.
00:11:16 Dr. Mark Jackson
There will be a few people.
00:11:18 Dr. Mark Jackson
Uh, specialized in them, but a lot of people will be able to use them without having to be.
00:11:23 Dr. Mark Jackson
An expert in them, right?
00:11:24 Frank
So I mean, there's definitely this.
00:11:26 Frank
This evolution that's happening, and it's it seems to be picking up pace.
00:11:31 Frank
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 - 47min - 7 - Announcing the New Impact Quantum Website
In this episode, Frank announces the new website that will keep you up to date on all the happenings in the quantum computing realm.
This episode is entitled "Now is the Time to Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution" and was recorded on a livestream and is rated one Schroedinger.
Here is your host, Frank La Vigne.
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 - 29min - 6 - Azure Quantum is Here
Microsoft places Azure Quantum into public preview.
Does this mean that enterprises are going to start embracing Quantum Computing?
What can you do now to prepare for a quantum career?
Links
http://franksworld.com/2021/01/25/quantum-computing-for-computer-scientists/
https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/01/microsofts-azure-quantum-platform-is-now-in-public-preview/
http://franksworld.com/category/quantum-computing/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-quantum-cloud-computing-plans-take-another-big-step-forward/
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 - 27min - 5 - Can Quantum Computing Prevent Another AI Winter?
Hello and welcome to Impact Quantum, a podcast about quantum computing for developers and engineers.
This episode is entitled "Can Quantum Computing Prevent Another AI Winter?" was recorded on a livestream and is rated one Schroedinger.
It also contains several movie references, such as World War Z, the Terminator, and Star Wars.
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Thu, 15 Oct 2020 - 17min - 4 - Applications of Quantum Computing
Recently, Frank was debating the applications of quantum computing with a friend.
He then realize two things: it's about more than breaking cryptography and predicting the future is hard.
Oh yeah, and saving the world.
This show is rated 1 Schroedinger and was originally recorded live.
View the live stream here:
https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6712736063196057601/
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 - 19min - 3 - Freakin' Qubits: How Do They Work?
In this episode, Frank explains Qubits and the math behind them.
This episode is rated 2 Schrodingers.
Watch the live stream: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frank-lavigne_impact-quantum-whats-a-qubit-activity-6707702289219493890-Obaj
Transcript
Voiceover
Hello and welcome to this episode of impact quantum. This episode is titled freaking qubits how do they work?
Voiceover
Only Frank could Lincoln Insane Clown Posse mean to quantum computing so you are clearly in the right place to learn. This episode is rated to shredding's for some heavy maths content don't worry, it's not too scary.
Frank
Alright, so that.
Frank
Dubstep intro music means that this is impact quantum. The podcast for engineers who are curious about the coming revolution in quantum computing. I'm your host Frank Lavigna and my cohost will not be able to join us today. So as we promised in kind of the original show.
Frank
We're not going to kind of do that. We're gonna try to get to a more regular cadence. In these shows so this is show number Q. Although technically third in the series.
Frank
This show was rated 2 Schrodinger's 'cause. We will get into a little bit of technical detail but don't let that scare you off I'm going to talk about.
Uh.
Frank
Cubits and Anne, how they work? My name is Frank Levin. Yeah, i'ma data in AI architect who got quantum fever not that long ago. In November 2019, when I saw kind of the The Amazing stuff that's just around the corner.
Frank
Um so today is about qubits and there's a whole meme about this. The original song referred to magnets. But I think if they were writing this song. Today, they would be writing this about.
Frank
Um.
Frank
They would write about.
Frank
Cubits hang on spotlight and performance hang on. Hey cool, it does that now Alright. They took my feedback let me start this over if you're watching this live I really appreciate it. I will be monitoring chat hey modern day tech. How's it going?
Frank
Uh, if you're watching this live, I appreciate you turning in live your listing later on the podcast. I will try to be very descriptive in the time that I have between now and.
Frank
My next meeting.
Frank
Alright so if if Insane Clown Posse were writing a new song. Today, they would probably talk about freaking cubits or how do they work?
Frank
So there was a whole Internet meme about it already on. To paraphrase something from one of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, they didn't say fricking. You have been warned.
Frank
So this is a?
Frank
Part of my big quantum presentation called Quantum Physics in 30 minutes or less.
Frank
Um?
Frank
Bye for people who have mixed feelings about it, hence mathematics.
Frank
Um this is the big barrier. I think for a lot of folks when they want to get into quantum computing. There's a lot of math. There's a lot of weird, kind of quantum physics and you hear a lot of things, said about quantum if you do a search on the Internet on quantum. There's all sorts of interesting kind of metaphysical stuff, not going to touch into that, but what makes quantum weird.
Frank
Is how we normally interact with the world. We normally interact. You know whether it's a baseball, whether it's the moon, we interact, which known as Newtonian or classical mechanics, right? If I held a this smart phone.
Frank
Right and I Drop it. It's going to fall fall, the floor. Maybe the glass will break. Maybe it won't.
Frank
But it's not going to fire. Let it go. It's not going to go up and blast off and hit the ceiling. It's not going to stay there in place. If I were to able to throw this fast enough, I would be able to get this to the moon. If I get through this a little bit less faster than that, I could get this into orbit, right? So that's kind of how things work, right? If I.
Frank
Fight smacking against my other hand it's going to make a noise and possibly hurt, but we can all measure based on the mass of this and the acceleration. How hard of that force is going to hit across the hand. I guess if you're really clever you can figure out loud that smack would be.
Frank
Um, so quantum mechanics deals with stuff that's really, really small, basically smaller than.
Frank
A smaller than an Atom or at the atomic level, right? So at this point in our normal world you know, here is kind of the scale of a a human hair, or the.
Frank
100 micrometres
Frank
Then we get down into kind of the genes and the virus is somewhere between 10 to 100 nanometers. Nano being a billionth.
Frank
Um?
Frank
And viruses are obviously very much on people's minds these these days, but smaller than that smaller than proteins. You get molecules, small molecules, an atomic structures, so inside.
Frank
That Tomic structure is where things kind of start.
Frank
Getting different an I actually did listen to you and while I was on vacation, I read a book on quantum computing, an applied approach. Interesting book.
Frank
But there was even more fascinating book called Sinchronicity.
Frank
And it's about kind of.
Frank
The understanding the try the reach to understanding.
Frank
How the universe works from Plato. I'm talking about, you know, the forms in The Cave and all that kind of Philosophy. 101 stuff which you know obviously.
Frank
Uh.
Frank
At that time.
Frank
At the time was cutting edge all the way to kind of where we are now and how we understand stars and Fusion and quantum physics and particles and stuff like that.
Frank
So those are all the things that we
Frank
Have at multiple levels of understanding so overtime.
Frank
We've really gotten down to. We've always pursued the the forward March of science, if you will. So quantum physics.
Frank
Works a little differently an that book synchronocity really covers the weirdness of quantum mechanics and the struggles that 20th century physicists came when they came through and went through to understand it. In fact, this is a something that Einstein.
Frank
Himself was very sceptical of you'll. You'll see the probability plays a big role here and in Einstein was famously quoted as saying.
Frank
Um, that.
Frank
God doesn't play dice and.
Frank
So there's definitely a lot of interesting kind of ether personality conflicts to one of the gates is called a Hadamard Gate, and they talk about him. There's also three types of Pauli Gates at Poly X Poly. Why an Polly Z, and I wonder who is this guy Paulie that you know has so many quantum?
Frank
Logic, quantum computing, logic gates, and after him. And this book actually covers. He was kind of a big deal, not a household world, but word, but still kind of a big deal. So what quantum computers do is they take advantage of some of the quirks if you will, of quantum mechanics and the properties thereof.
Frank
I did warn you that this episode was going to be too schrodinger's.
Frank
We will talk about the stuff I don't fully understand it, so but I do understand a good bit of it and um.
Frank
Uh, we can kind of go through some of the particular properties that that this matter, so ultimately.
Frank
Quantum computers take advantage of all of the strangeness, if you will, for lack of a better term.
Frank
Of.
Frank
Quantum mechanics and in the same way that classical computers, whether it's your smartphone, the laptop I'm recording this on, take advantage of the.
Frank
Properties of electricity, right? They are called electronics.
Frank
After all, and
Frank
There's little electrons bouncing around inside those things and we take advantage of how that works and how semiconductors work.
Frank
So there's four or three kind of properties that really matter, um, and then all of these operators are kind of built on that, um. And then when I say operators, I mean.
Frank
Logic gate operators like you would have with and not.
Frank
Type of gates. Stuff for you really would only learn in either electrical engineering or kind of Comp sci kind of intro. Just kind of show you how things ultimately happen on the actual metal.
Frank
Of the chip.
Frank
Alright, so the first is the first element of this is really called a cubit.
Frank
An what you're seeing here is a bunch of math focused on.
Frank
Kind of basically discussing the state of the wave when you see that character, that means the state of the wave. This is basically the probability of it being or the state of it being.
Frank
Zero and one.
Frank
An ultimately.
Frank
How does that work?
Frank
Right so in a classical bit.
Frank
And this is everything every computer, you've ever used uses classical bits. You know basically a circuit is complete or it's not right. The The Gate is on or the gate is off now.
Frank
What makes qubits special is they have the ability.
Frank
To also be.
Frank
One and zero right based on the electron spin.
Frank
But
Frank
There's another state 1/3 state if you will, where it can be both zero and one at the same time.
Frank
This is called Super position.
Frank
And there there's a famous thought experiment called Schrodinger's cat, and basically it kind of breaks down into.
Frank
Until you examine, there's a cat in the box. The cat, or may not cat may or may not be dead, but until you open the box and observe it.
Frank
It the cat exists in both states, the cat, the cat is both alive and dead simultaneously.
Frank
This is kind of a combo state and this is zero and one right cat is a dead or the cat is alive and there's kind of this combo state.
Frank
The of in certainty basically where it is both can effectively be both zero and one.
Frank
And there's a great scene from the movie No.
Frank
Country for old men.
Frank
And basically it is.
Frank
This guy is making is a very threatening kind of bad guy, and, uh, he flips a coin. Why is my animated GIF not?
Frank
Playing, that's disappointing.
Frank
I guess if you're listening along.
Frank
Uh, this character here, basically.
Frank
Threatens this guy and he forces him to call the coin and and ultimately what happens is, um, he calls it and he gets it right, but the cinematography, the lighting that own the music, all really paint the thing that this guy could die.
Frank
Any second and it turns out that he.
Frank
He made the right call on the thing and the guy just walked away. It was a very bizarre moment in the film in a very kind of strange movie.
Frank
But at that point when.
Frank
We didn't know.
Frank
We weren't certain of the outcome of the state so that's kind of another example of of kind of that uncertainty of of state there.
Frank
Alright, so I did warn you that there is some math ahead an I am so the first time we're going to do something kind of highly technical, both as a live feed on LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitch, of course LinkedIn.
Frank
Um but we do have?
Frank
Um, I do, I will explain it in my humble way. If you think I'm doing this wrong. I very Mel very may well be doing it wrong, but.
Frank
I would encourage you to come on the show and explain it, the right way I am not a quantum physicist. I am not a particle physicist an I know.
Frank
I know math of AI and that's that's where I I Land Alright.
Frank
So superposition.
Frank
Is the idea of how does that happen? Well mathematically, ultimately, superposition is the state of both zero and one.
Frank
So in other words, superposition is 0 + 1 now.
Frank
I learned in kindergarten that 0 + 1.
Frank
Is 1 right or 0 plus any number is the same number, right? So how does that work? That doesn't make any sense and this for me this is the ah ha moment I had 'cause I attended a talk where he explained it very well.
Frank
So you're right.
Frank
If you're adding integers, absolutely 0 + 1 is just one, right? There is no third state, however.
Frank
What if you're adding vectors?
Frank
Now, if you are watching this or you're listening to this rather than watching it, think of a 0 as a horizontal line, right? And if you would describe that in Cartesian coordinates.
Frank
That would be.
Frank
One, zero right so that flat line represent is is is noted in Cartesian coordinates.
Frank
Is 1, 0.
Frank
Now a vertical line.
Frank
That is going up and down.
Frank
A would be described in Cartesian coordinates.
Frank
As zero, one.
Frank
So.
Frank
0, one.
Frank
For a vertical line.
Frank
And a one, 0 for a flat line.
Frank
Just think back to middle school math when you were drawing plots and charts and stuff like that and you all thought it was useless, right? Alright?
Frank
Adding those two states together.
Frank
You get.
Frank
Superposition, right? So think now are the 45 degree line that goes from.
Frank
That has can be described as one, one.
Frank
Here's the rub. You are not adding integers, you're adding vectors.
Frank
And once you start adding vectors.
Frank
You get to some interesting points of math.
Frank
And this is basically called linear algebra.
Frank
Some people call it matrix math, but essentially it's the same thing.
Frank
And what you're defining here. This is called bracket notation, which if you're wondering why Amazon called their new quantum service bracket, This is why this is known as bracket notation, where you have the pipe.
Frank
A letter denoting a variable and then it's not quite a greater than sign, but it kind of looks like one.
Frank
Alright, hopefully that makes sense. So vector math. Our matrix algebra has some very different has some very well defined rules. There are a little bit different than the math you learned. You know in kindergarten, elementary school matrices or not matrices.
Frank
Well, yeah it is a matrix. So so so these vectors, these matrices these vectors can be represented as matrices which have their own rules in terms of how they're multiplied.
Frank
Right, So what you're seeing on screen is that if I have a line that's defined by 1, negative 2 an I double that. I now have two.
Frank
And -4.
Frank
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 - 22min - 2 - Quantum is Coming
The very first episode of Impact Quantum.
Watch the livestream
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frank-lavigne_quantum-compute-is-coming-activity-6700060953964232704-8JwD
Transcript (AI Generated):
This episode of the impact quantum podcast is rated one schroedinger and is entitled Quantum is coming.
Speaker 1
I'm Frank Lavigna an this is the very first episode of impact quantum quantum computing is about the radically change.
Speaker 1
Uh, how we live an work, so let's roll the intro.
Speaker 1
Alright, with me to my I think it's left on the screen. Here is my cohost from data driven Andy. Later, how's it going, Andy?
Speaker 2
Hey Frank is going awesome.
Speaker 2
How are you?
Speaker 1
I'm doing well doing well. I've got the I've I've got the fever.
Speaker 1
Do you? It's not covered. It's not Corona Squantum Fever. That's what I got.
Speaker 1
So Andy and I have another podcast data driven.tv where we explore the emerging fields of data science machine learning an artificial intelligence, and you're probably wondering what the heck are you data sciency data engineer guys doing here talking about quantum computing?
Speaker 1
For miles back, let me tell you a story. In November of 2019 this is back when people would actually travel places.
Speaker 1
And congregate in large groups without thinking twice. This is before the words Wuhan meat market.
Speaker 1
More commonplace before when Corona was just a beer I attended a conference called M labs or might machine learning and data science summit. It's an internal only kind of conference for Microsoft employees thrown by Microsoft Research where they kind of come out of the lab and they talked to us about kind of what's around.
Speaker 1
Pike
Speaker 1
And, um.
Speaker 1
This is the conference that I went to in 2016 where I had my ahha moment or you know about getting into this field right? I kind of. I was into data visualization and power BI and kind of Munging Data with Excel.
Speaker 1
But the engineering wasn't in me, was not satisfied. Then I discovered machine learning and artificial intelligence, and where that was headed.
Speaker 1
And when I came back from that conference, completely switched on about. This is the future. This is coming. It's here, it's you know it's it's on its way.
Speaker 1
Most people thought I was crazy.
Speaker 1
I mean, even I had my doubts about it, so yeah.
Speaker 1
Through
Speaker 1
A number of coincidences. It took me 4 or or other reasons, took me about four and a half years or 3 1/2 years to get back there.
Speaker 1
Um and the first day came and went. I didn't have that. Ah ha moment, so I'm like, well, you know, maybe that's just like a once or twice in a lifetime type. Ah ha moment.
Speaker 1
It happens, doesn't have sure sure.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
Then on the second day it was a hardware presentation. Now I can't talk about everything I saw, but that's when quantum computing was explained to Maine.
Speaker 1
And why?
Speaker 1
It is the next big thing.
Speaker 1
An I knew I was on the right track because when I came back I started telling other people that quantum is coming quantum quantum quantum.
Speaker 1
I sat it again like a ranting lunatic.
Speaker 1
And that kind of told Maine.
Speaker 1
That maybe I'm on to something because the next wave always looks crazy before it happens.
Speaker 2
Yeah.
Speaker 2
So.
Speaker 1
With that in mind, I attended, um I started studying quantum type computing articles and and Whatnot, and I even installed Q Sharp that night in the hotel.
Speaker 1
Then I opened up my.
Speaker 1
Brought on my Visual Studio.
Speaker 1
And, um.
Speaker 1
Was like OK, now what?
Yeah.
Speaker 1
Um and once again, I'm trying to keep a growth mindset here when I first read a book on statistics.
Speaker 1
My first reaction was, uh, what did I get myself into?
Speaker 1
Right?
Speaker 2
But that's you know that's not a common Frank. A lot of people come into this an you know I don't. When you're starting out, who knows everything you're gonna learn and everything you gonna need to learn.
Speaker 1
Exactly right, and I think that there's going to be a lot of people.
Speaker 1
Um, that are going to be in a similar boat and.
Speaker 1
On our main show we kind of discussed this is that.
Speaker 1
It's hard for people to think back. I mean, it's hard for people to think back honestly about what life was like before Koven you know going yeah, getting into elevators like whoa other people.
Speaker 1
On that, at the same time.
Speaker 1
Things like that, but it's hard to go back even further to think that there was a time when only PHD's did data science right and then was right.
Speaker 1
Think about, Well, you have to go back to school like when I when I asked folks for advice on what to do at that summit actually in 2016.
Speaker 1
I know that one guy is like I just go back to school and get get PhD in statistics and this is before data science programs existed at universities, so this was really yeah.
Speaker 1
We forget how quickly this is moved. I mean now everybody and their cousin hasn't data science course and I don't mean that disparagingly, I just.
Speaker 2
Know there's just.
Speaker 1
A the Germans have a phrase.
Speaker 1
Um, it's been awhile, so I spoke German on daily basis. Just broke fall derval something like that was like the agony of choices and we kind of have that now which four years ago we didn't. But around three years. Three years or so ago, guy named Siraj Raval and I'll just drop his name. I won't say anything else opinion Wise had the ability.
Speaker 1
Not so much to conduct unique and custom research on his own.
Speaker 1
But he did have the gift. The true gift is true talent.
Speaker 1
Was explaining these complicated data science machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts in simple ways.
Yeah.
Speaker 1
And it is a rare gift that if you can understand something, you can explain it now. Richard Feynman, a noted physicist. He says if you can't explain it, you don't understand it.
Speaker 1
Or you can't explain it simply you don't understand it. Something like that. I totally butchered that.
Speaker 2
Now you got it, yeah?
Speaker 1
So the key here and the goal for this show is going to be just that, like the ability to explain this.
Speaker 1
And, um, in in in a clear and simple way that engineers can understand. Maybe not your Grandma.
Speaker 1
Unless your grandma happens to be a particle physicist.
Speaker 1
It happened, I had a great aunt who was sister to my grandmother who was an engineer which back when in the 40s and 50s was a woman engineer was was quite an accomplishment in the military, no less too.
Speaker 1
And it was not Grace Hopper, No, but.
Speaker 1
Um, though that would have been cool.
Speaker 1
In any case, um, the key here.
Speaker 1
Is that we want to explain this in ways that software engineers and data engineers would understand?
Speaker 1
And that's our goal for this show.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
Now, the best way to set up a learning scenario, which I in the last four years or so I have made learning a priority in my life, right? Yeah, I have the numbers to prove that 266 certifications since December 2016.
Speaker 1
So.
Speaker 1
That I don't say that to show off, I just showed that to saying like I got. You know, it's just become who I am now. It's become a habit. Yeah, I don't know where I was going with that, but.
Speaker 1
The best way to set up.
Speaker 1
The learning here is the notion for learning is to set up a reason why right. If you if you want to learn something, you're going to be far more motivated and far more likely to capture that information and retain that information.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
So.
Speaker 1
Let's start there. Why why should you learn quantum computing? Why? Why is this? Like with the data science world is rockin, right like AI is rocking? Yeah, it is rocking. However, winter may be coming right to continue that Game of Thrones theme. And I'm going to try to share my screen.
Speaker 1
An if you were listening to just the audio, don't worry. I will explain this in a um.
Speaker 1
In a way.
Speaker 1
That makes sense.
Speaker 1
Um, hopefully. Let's see if I get that screen up.
Speaker 1
Alright, So what you're seeing here is an article. It's from Venturebeat they basically warn.
Speaker 1
Researchers at MIT warn that Dean is approaching computation. It's now what does that mean? Well, I thought the cloud had infinite scalability. Well, it it kind of does, but there is a practical upper limit that we are starting to bump up against.
Speaker 1
And this is kind of the thing that got my attention, so this article is from July, but I heard this in.
Speaker 1
Um, late last year? Kind of about it. You know this is becoming a problem and let me explain why this is a problem.
Speaker 1
Um?
Speaker 1
Because let's take GPT 3 for example. So GPT 3 is an.
Speaker 1
A natural language processing model.
Speaker 1
It took about.
Speaker 1
Our 175 billion parameters in right? So that was just the input level like in terms of what it what it could do.
Speaker 1
It took a certain amount of time to train that and it took costs somewhere between 5:00 and $12,000,000 depending on depending on who's answering the question.
Right, yeah?
Speaker 1
GPT 2.
Speaker 1
Only only had 1 1/2 billion parameters.
Speaker 1
Right, yeah, that's a That's an order of magnitude greater right 175 from 1.5.
Speaker 1
If there was ever going to be.
Speaker 1
A Jeep 4.
Speaker 1
We're now looking at.
Speaker 1
Um?
Speaker 1
We're now looking at.
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I totally lost my train of thought.
Speaker 1
OK, alright thank you for handling the comments and.
Speaker 2
Yeah, that's what I'm I'm.
Speaker 1
Looking for streaming this live. I actually I might edit this part out of the RSS feed, but the I announced the show on roopesh show on Wednesday. He has an Instagram life thing going on, so I announced the show. So that gave me a little bit of extra leverage to do this.
Speaker 1
Um on time today, but the short of it is, is that we are hitting these limits, so you can imagine what a GPT 4 would have would have trillions of parameters.
Speaker 1
And I don't know if this is going to be. What's the cost going to be? Is it going to be exponential rise? But at some point we are going to run out?
Speaker 1
Of.
Speaker 1
Keep you.
Speaker 1
And certainly doing this at scale, we are going to run out.
Speaker 1
What this means?
Speaker 1
Is somewhat concerning. Kind of, you know, three to five years out. Is that the innovation in research is going to stop.
Speaker 1
Right, yeah and.
Speaker 1
Then, once the innovation research stops, the new products that come out that get venture funding then ultimately get bought by some of the big tech firms is going to start slowing down.
Speaker 2
That is going to, oh, that's what we call winter, right?
Speaker 1
Right, that's a I winter an if you think this is implausible, I urge you to take a look at history because this has happened before.
Speaker 1
And we are at the early stage of this, potentially happening again. Predicting the future is hard by the way. In case you didn't know.
Speaker 1
But if you.
Speaker 1
Look at the advancements that were made in artificial intelligence from I mean, Alan Turing.
Speaker 1
Um came up with the notion of the Turing test, kind of defined kind of the core principles of what we call the field of artificial intelligence today.
Speaker 1
This is a 70 year old we're in the 7th decade of AI.
Speaker 1
Right now to read some of the breathless press releases from various companies, you would not think you would think that AI started about 2000 nine 2010.
Speaker 1
Not true.
Speaker 1
But at every stage that there's been advancements in AI and I'm talking going back to the 60s.
Speaker 1
And even in the 80s.
Speaker 1
When the concept of Neural Networks were really pioneered and kind of used.
Speaker 1
At every time there was a burst of innovation.
Speaker 1
And at every time.
Speaker 1
The innovation outpaced compute ability.
Speaker 1
To keep up, yeah.
Speaker 1
So then that led to AI winters, so including the worst AI winter so far has been um from the mid 80s till about 10 maybe 12 years ago.
Speaker 1
Now, that doesn't mean that research doesn't happen in that field in the mean time, I actually.
Speaker 1
Took my first.
Speaker 1
Course in artificial intelligence in 1990.
Speaker 1
4 now was the 2nd semester, so it was.
Speaker 1
It was 1995 or 1994.
Wow.
Speaker 1
And nine years began with a one.
Speaker 1
Right crazy there are people that are.
Speaker 1
Probably watching this that aren't even they weren't even live then, and my professor at the time noted researcher in the field X IBM doctorate distinguished engineer. I mean smart guy.
Speaker 1
But he was like, oh, this is gonna be the next paradigm. This is going to be. And basically it was.
Speaker 1
Prolog was a Prolog programming course.
Speaker 2
Yeah.
Speaker 1
An the final I kept waiting for like OK where's the AI coming from like where is he coming from and and that ah ha moment never came and it was just basically kind of.
Speaker 1
A hybrid of inference and.
Speaker 1
Recursion and was like that's it.
Speaker 1
An A lot of these expert systems that were that he was an expert in expert system, so that's very meta, right? There were essentially if you kind of Peel the covers back, they were essentially just a ton of ifdef statements.
Speaker 1
Yeah.
Speaker 1
Again, where's the AI in that, right?
Speaker 1
Right, so that really set me up for to not be a nonbeliever so so much the point when I saw some of the early work before they were cognitive services, this was kind of they were just still in the research lab.
Speaker 1
They had a DC Tech Fair which is essentially researchers coming out to DC at the Microsoft Office will kind of show off what they're working on, and a number of it was computer vision and artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1
And I saw this thing where he he he uploaded a picture to this program and it it was a picture of a cat.
Speaker 1
He was a picture of a cat.
And.
Speaker 1
He uploaded it and the description came back saying, hey, this is a picture of a cat.
Speaker 1
And I'm like I looked. I looked at that and I was like my first part of it was like yeah, that's cool. Then my sinic kind of came out and I was like, Yeah, but it's probably some kind of weird inference recursion thing going on.
Speaker 1
So I kind of walked away and continue filming the rest of actually filmed the event. You can check out the video on YouTube.
Speaker 1
Which we will link in the show notes.
So.
Speaker 1
That left me very sceptical of what the state of the art was. It wasn't until I saw kind of what the real state of the art was at a follow on event the year later, the ha moment that I had the Blues brothers moment as we've often referred to in a data driven dot TV show, so that takes us to today, 2020 or 2019.
Speaker 1
Is when I was there, I actually recorded a dated point right in front of the...
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 - 52min - 1 - Introducing Impact Quantum
In this first show, Frank explains the goal of the show, its purpose, and cat-based rating system.
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Hello, my name is Frank Lavigna and together with my Co host Andy Leonard we spent the last three years exploring the emerging fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. On our show. Data driven.
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Now it's time to take a leap. A quantum leap. Yes, I know it was a cheesy TV show from the 80s and 90s, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the leap into quantum computing. Quantum computing is about the change. The world as we know it.
Speaker 1
And if you think that's hyperbole, think back to about 20 years ago before the iPhone, before the iPad. And for more recent example, think about what life was like before data science and AI became, well, household terms. I think quantum computing over the next decade is going to have the same type of impact.
Speaker 1
And that's why this show is called impact quantum 'cause quantum computing and advances in quantum technology are going to radically change our day-to-day experience and interactions with technology and what's possible.
Speaker 1
In this show, we will explore this emerging new field from the point of view from software engineers and data engineers. Because right now there's a lot of material out there that presumes you have advanced knowledge of particle physics or advanced theoretical physics.
Speaker 1
Just like data science. A few years ago required a PhD in statistics or calculus. I think that there's a huge opportunity here to help people.
Speaker 1
Re skill and build up their schools in what is never really going to become a new gold rush. A quantum algorithm, gold rush. And if you think that's crazy. Yeah, maybe it is, but I really think that quantum computing is ability to add a third state to the binary right instead of being one and zero, it's in a state of superposition where it could be both at the same time.
Speaker 1
Now that is kind of a big concept to get your head around and trust me, I have been fascinated with this since November of 2019 and I'm currently recording this in August of 2020.
Speaker 1
But don't worry, we got you covered. Each show I will explain in my limited capacity.
Speaker 1
Each show I will explain a particular aspect of quantum computing and how it applies to software engineers or data engineers in a way that you know can kind of relate to us and how we think.
Speaker 1
Additionally, if I can get some experts on the topic to kind of come on the show when I can kind of quiz them and ask them type of questions that I have and I'm sure you have as well, I will do that now since the show will have kind of varying degrees of difficulty. We're experimenting with a rating system that would rate the level of difficulty in terms of how.
Speaker 1
Easy or difficult, the subject matter will be in that show and just for fun, I'm calling them schrodinger's right, so we'll write each show from one to five Schrodinger's an. I even have a cool little graphic of a cat that will show how difficult that is in the show notes, but I just want to let you know from the get go and the opening of the each episode. I will have a rating.
Speaker 1
Mentioning that this is 1 schroedinger, so you know it's kind of easy. It's kind of good in introductory information all the way to 5. Schrodinger's where you know, maybe you shouldn't be driving while you listen to it, 'cause there's some pretty heavy concepts coming in, so I just want to make this my goal for this show is to make quantum computing accessible and quantum programming accessible for people who are already in software engineering.
Speaker 1
And people who are just getting started. This is going to be the next wave and I look forward to exploring and trailblazing with all of y'all. Thank you.
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 - 03min
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