An algorithm is a set of step-by-step instructions designed to perform a specific task or solve a particular problem. It takes an input, processes it through a series of defined steps, and produces an output.
Source: Conversation with Copilot, 9/22/2024
Last week, I recorded a media podcast about the current state of quantum computing. I’ll post a link to it when it is available, but today I’m discussing something that we chatted about in the prep that did not make…
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Today’s Brief Commentary It’s been a very solid week of progress here in the Terran Quantum Realm, um, I mean, the global quantum industry. More than just technological progress, we have partnerships, realistic forecasts for useful quantum applications, and in-country…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m going out on a limb here and define “quantum utility” as “still not practical at scale for problems we care about, but seemingly going in the right direction.” I genuinely dislike its other manifestations as a…
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Today’s Brief Commentary: The next newsletter will be a special edition announcing the availability of two market landscape reports, one on QPUs, which goes well beyond what I published in April, and a new one on quantum software. The links…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I was in the UK last week, and although I sent out a newsletter before I left, there’s quite a bit to catch up on today. You might need a coffee and a refill to read it…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I was tempted to call this week’s newsletter “Jensen’s Corner” since three of the first articles I added involved NVIDIA. I didn’t include anything about the latest inflection point claim since I’ve used up my allotment for…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’ve been traveling in the UK this week to attend and speak at the Economist Impact 4th annual Commercialising Quantum Global 2025 conference in London. It was a great event as usual, with roughly 25% of the…
What Happened? On Monday, May 12, 2025, Rigetti Computing announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. It wasn’t pretty, but maybe it doesn’t need to be…
What Happened? On Thursday, May 8, 2025, D-Wave Quantum announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. The Numbers By almost any measurement, D-Wave had an excellent…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s photo above is from the Quantum.Tech USA 2024 event in Washington, DC, in April. Thanks to the organizers for the image. Honestly, I thought I was smiling the whole time. It’s been a busy quantum spring…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m going to start today’s commentary with a quick thought I posted on LinkedIn: We don’t have a quantum computing workforce shortage. We have too many expert and talented people spread out over too many companies. I’ve…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This is a special issue of the newsletter in that instead of news articles and research papers, I’ve included several links that give the current state of quantum computing for finance. If you do a web search…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Inspired by a discussion with a representative from Toshiba at the Quantum.Tech DC event this week, my links and comments today are related to annealing and optimization. In the quantum space, D-Wave is perhaps the best known…
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Today’s Brief Commentary: Prompted by a LinkedIn post by David Ryan and then my comment (and his response), today, I address the topic of a media or press kit for your website. Such a kit is a one-stop page that…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This week, I am Brooklyn-bound, and I’ll be hosting a panel on Thursday at the Forma Prime Demo Day as part of NYC Deep Tech Week hosted by Hyperstition. The panel is called “The Unadorned Truth about…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, we have two links to recent videocasts with me, three regarding post-quantum cryptography, and two for quantum computing. Each of the latter two categories includes variations of quantum hype. The first, from WIRED, is of the…