Happy *belated World Quantum Day (Week/Month/Year). This episode is about the journey that one can take in navigating and getting started in the quantum technology space. This was recorded live at the NYU Abhu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good . This episode I talk to Google QuantumAI's esteemed research scientist who was part of the Willow team - Amir Karamlou. We'll hear about Amir's journey and how hackathons can change the future of the quantum space. Links: Hackathon for Social ...
Apr 30, 2025•32 min
The return of the QCN podcast!! This episode was meant to release on February 14th! Ethan's mic (quite literally) has been passed on to me, Shway, and I'll be the new host. I hope I do nearly as great of a job communicating the journey of learning quantum computing as he did... Thank you my friend. (Also congratulations to Ethan & his fiancée!!!!!) --- I procrastinated on posting this. Expect more episodes on quantum computing technologies, with hopefully less procrastination. And as always,...
Mar 09, 2025•3 min
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Jan 01, 2024•16 min
We've heard on the show before about software needed to secure devices in a post-quantum world, but what about the hardware? Mamta Gupta from Lattice Semiconductor is here to tell us all about that! A note: at one point, Mamta talks about massive parallelism being the reason for quantum computing's speedup. As far as I can tell, it's not. I didn't think during the podcast was the best time to bring it up, but if you want to learn more, I recommend looking at the episode I did with Scott Aaronson...
Jul 14, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Guess who's back? Back again? Ethan's back! Tell a friend! My research on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04093 https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B...
Jun 13, 2023•23 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Original Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIkM6Io6pU Womanium Quantum website: https://www.womanium.org/Quantum/Computing
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min
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! QC Zero to Hero repo: https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero The Quantum Pod: https://anchor.fm/thequantumpod Noisy Intermediate Scale Podcast: https://www.mustythoughts.com/podcast.html https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47...
May 28, 2022•3 min
Links to resources used today: https://quantum.country/qcvc https://quantum.country/qm https://app.element.io/?pk_vid=d4b162e0e6c511851631808451ab93fb#/room/#quantum_computing:matrix.org Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent...
Feb 04, 2022•10 min
Links to resources used today: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas/tree/main/tutorials/LinearAlgebra Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent...
Jan 28, 2022•52 min
Links to resources used today: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas/tree/main/tutorials/ComplexArithmetic Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Links to resources used today: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/matrix-multiplication https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/3d-transformations https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/determinant https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/inverse-matrices Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent...
Jan 24, 2022•35 min
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 Links to resources used today: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/eola-preview https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/vectors https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/span https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/linear-transform...
Jan 23, 2022•47 min
Links to resources used today: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/a/visualizing-linear-transformations?modal=1 https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/a/practice-associating-matrices-with-transformations?modal=1 Also check out the Riemann zeta function content from 3B1B: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/zeta Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e45...
Jan 13, 2022•17 min
In which Jan Goetz teaches me about how superconducting quantum computers work. IQM website: https://www.meetiqm.com/ Opensource software for designing superconducting circuits: https://github.com/iqm-finland/KQCircuits IQM at APS March Meeting: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR21/Session/L67.1 Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 ...
Jan 09, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Links to resources used today: https://www.learnpython.org/en/Hello%2C_World%21 https://www.learnpython.org/en/Variables_and_Types https://www.learnpython.org/en/Lists https://www.learnpython.org/en/Dictionaries https://www.learnpython.org/en/Basic_Operators https://www.learnpython.org/en/Conditions https://www.learnpython.org/en/Loops https://www.learnpython.org/en/Functions https://www.learnpython.org/en/Classes_and_Objects https://www.learnpython.org/en/Modules_and_Packages Join the next meet...
Jan 02, 2022•1 hr
If you're listening on the podcast version, so you don't waste your time I recommend using a podcatcher that can automatically skip silence like AntennaPod: https://antennapod.org/ (that's what I use!) Links to resources used today: https://jupyter.org/install https://www.codecademy.com/article/how-to-use-jupyter-notebooks Links for QC Zero to Hero: Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https...
Jan 01, 2022•25 min
In which whurley and I talk about the challenges and promises involved in bringing quantum computing to a wider audience Jon Skerrett episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Fact-vs-Fiction-Quantum-Edition-with-Jon-Skerrett--Episode-38-e13u6fv whurley’s FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/whurley whurley’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/whurley whurley’s GitHub: https://github.com/whurley Strangeworks website: https://strangeworks.com/ IBM + Strangeworks announcement: https://strang...
Dec 30, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Quantum London: https://www.qubits.london/ Forbes Articles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/people/paullipman1/?sh=487219bf657c Difference between Quantum Supremacy and Quantum Advantage: https://medium.com/@wjzeng/clarifying-quantum-supremacy-better-terms-for-milestones-in-quantum-computation-d15ccb53954f Quantum Economic Development Consortium: https://quantumconsortium.org/ Coldquanta’s website: https://coldquanta.com/ Coldquanta’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/col...
Dec 24, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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! Quantum Supremacy episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Googles-Quantum-Supremacy---Episode-5-News-e7ssst Scott’s website (including links to lecture notes): https://scottaaronson.com/ Scott’s blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/ Pop article from Scott: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-quantum-computi...
Dec 18, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 11
In which Roger and I talk about Yao, mostly That’s Cool News talking about ITER: https://thatscoolnews.com/episode/62/ Yao tutorials: https://yaoquantum.org/tutorials/ Roger’s Blog post on building a quantum simulator from scratch: https://blog.rogerluo.dev/2020/03/31/yany/ Yao docs: https://docs.yaoquantum.org/dev/ Yao Summer of Code: https://yaoquantum.org/soc/ Roger’s Github: https://github.com/Roger-luo Roger’s Website: https://rogerluo.dev/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.c...
Nov 14, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Classical and Quantum – a match made in heaven. And in the labs of Quantum Machines. Quantum Machines Website: https://www.quantum-machines.co/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085...
Oct 19, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 9
What the difference between football and quantum computing? How much funding they each get – take that however you would like Qubit Touchdown: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/qubit-touchdown Entanglion: https://entanglion.github.io/ Math football player: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urschel If you want more info on the hype of quantum computing, check out this episode I did with Jon Skerrett: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Fact-vs-Fiction-Quantum-Edition-with-Jon-Skerr...
Jul 20, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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! 3Blue1Brown Linear Algebra series: https://www.3blue1brown.com/essence-of-linear-algebra-page/ 9 second coherence time episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Coherence-Times-Longer-Than-My-Attention-Span--Episode-33-ev69gl Jon’s Github: https://github.com/jrskerrett Jon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/QubitW Jon’s Clubhouse: @QBitMe Jon’s LinkedIn: h...
Jul 05, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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 ;) Quantum Key Distribution Summer School: https://uwaterloo.ca/instit...
Jun 20, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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. QCI Website: https://www.quantumcomputinginc.com/ Qatalyst: https://www.quantumcomputinginc.com/products New quantum material: https://www.powersystemsdesign.com/articles/new-quantum-material-discovered/8/17863 Google Quantum AI Map: https://quantumai.google/learn/map Sound effects ob...
Jun 06, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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. Olivia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Liv_Lanes Olivia’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-lanes/ Qiskit Slack: https://ibm.c...
May 17, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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? Pennylane tutorials: https://pennylane.ai/qml/ Pennylane website: https://pennylane.ai/ Pennylane Community Demos: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos_community.html Jack’s Pennylane Tutorials: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_qaoa_in...
May 03, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 3
If only the progress of quantum computing could also help me not bounce from idea to idea like a pin ball... https://thequantumdaily.com/2021/04/05/uk-based-quantum-motion-researchers-report-they-have-blueprint-for-scalable-future-in-quantum-computing/ https://quantummotion.tech/quantum-computing-breakthrough-shows-blueprint-for-scalable-future/ https://sifted.eu/articles/quantum-motion-9-second-silicon-qubit/ https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.010353#fulltext http...
Apr 19, 2021•18 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In which I give the details of an interesting project I’ve been working on The Turbo Encabulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag A website I used for the script: https://www.thechiefstoryteller.com/2014/07/16/turbo-encabulator-best-worst-jargon/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com...
Apr 01, 2021•4 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In which I play the first episode of the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/noisy-intermediate-scale-podcast ----- Notes from Michał’s Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13914305/1-what-quantum-software-engineers-do In this episode I talk about the job of quantum software engineers. What this job is about and how it's different from similar positions? What challenges do QSEs face? What are some typical tasks that they work on? I tried to answer all these question...
Mar 21, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 21
