We created stone tools!
In case you missed it....
Social media is infested with posts announcing years-old news as if it just happened. For example, Google apparently just announced Willow, give or take a few years, and made a multiverse claim that no one has talked about. So, we discovered stone tools in Ethiopia from ~2.6 million years ago, and I want to make sure you hadn’t missed it.
This week’s premium content:
- Should circular transactions count?
- So THAT’S why I like IQM and Rigetti!
- Ket Quantum Programming
- The Animal Spirits of Quantum
This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon:
- Autonomous Quantum Compute for Datacenters by Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1
- “The shift is from planning to building.” by Yonatan Cohen, CTO, Quantum Machines
- “The case for reliable, sovereign timing is clear.” by Andrei Dragomir, CEO, Aquark Technologies
- “The market is maturing and preparing for growth.” by Matthew Martin, Managing Director, Quantum Design Oxford
- “There is still one massive bottleneck people aren’t talking about.” by Dan Holme, Co-Founder & CEO, Qoro Quantum
In this edition:
- 250 Credits for IQM Resonance
- Quantum Hardware is Still Dating Around
- It looks like an ordinary light bulb…
- You make me feel like dancing…
- Meet Sigma
- An Exponential Moment in Time
- IT Security with a Wizard, a Dragon, and a Castle
- #83: This podcast has an open architecture.
- Digital EU has 10 quantum computers.
- Open-source QRNG
- Quantum fiction
250 Credits for IQM Resonance
I attended “Running Quantum Chemistry on IQM Hardware with Qrunch by Kvantify” and received some playtime in exchange. No promises are being made with regard to future events, but can you really take the chance of missing future IQM events and potentially missing out on free credits? I can’t.
Quantum Hardware is Still Dating Around
Sreekuttan L S of Bloq Quantum introduces us to a Tinder analogy. While that’s enough to get into this newsletter, the post is apparently also promoting a real product. I’ve requested a demo, and hopefully that’ll turn into an evaluation and an article. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
It looks like an ordinary light bulb…
…but it makes data. If you open up the video in YouTube, Anthony Lawrence of Light Rider explains how it works in the description. I’m sharing it because my light bulbs only make higher electric bills. I would ask The Quantum Dragon for some free lighting, but then I would have to crank up the air conditioning, and that’s even worse.
You make me feel like dancing…
Susanna Ray wrote “What is quantum computing? 10 terms everyone should know” for Microsoft, and the underlying theme for the analogies is dancing. What may or may not wreak havoc with your brain, though, is that the website changes color as you scroll, so that each term almost feels like it’s on a new webpage.
Meet Sigma
Akriti Jain of Alice & Bob apparently wrote an origin story for the company’s mascot. Do you have any idea how pissed off The Quantum Dragon is right now that I haven’t done that for him? I’m typing this with the few keys left that haven’t melted. In my defense, Sigma is 91 years old, whereas The Quantum Dragon is only 52.
An Exponential Moment in Time
It’s also 1000000₂, but 2⁶ is more quantum.
IT Security with a Wizard, a Dragon, and a Castle
This. Is. Awesome. Thanks to Tom Millar of Venari Security for sharing this ITC Secure video. There’s nothing quantum about it, but the video is old and they must be thinking about PQC by now. Right? If not, hopefully they’ll see this and start asking questions. My sincerest apologies to Sergio Gago for their treatment of pirates.
#83: This podcast has an open architecture.
I spoke with Matt Rijlaarsdam, CEO and Co-Founder of QuantWare, about trying to be the Intel of quantum, mass production versus custom foundry and packaging services, the advantages of a 3D chip architecture, a bold claim about “exponentially more compute power per watt and per dollar,” the upper limit of qubit density, physical footprints, and driving down prices.
Digital EU has 10 quantum computers.
Truth be told: I’m just sharing this because I like maps. However, this post does beg the question whether Digital EU is building a network of quantum computers across 8 countries or whether it is building a network of quantum computers across 8 countries. This link may require a Twitter account.
Open-source QRNG
Quantum Village just released EntropyLoop, “A Fully Open Source, Low Cost Phase-Diffusion Quantum Random Number Generator Using Off the Shelf Parts.” My favorite feature is that it operates at 42 MHz, because we all know the significance of the number 42.
One step forward. Two steps back.
Dr. Rajiv Shah of MDR Security offers a twist on all of the recent hubbub about when we’ll start seeing cryptographically relevant quantum computers. But before you have a knee-jerk reaction to that statement, rest assured that the conclusion of the article is as it should be.
Quantum fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics. It is characterized by the use of an element in quantum mechanics as a storytelling device.
Quantum fiction
Today I learned that this is a thing. I was on the fence about linking to it, though, because it omits Quantum Beast: Spooky Action In Close Proximity. What an outrage!
