The very first episode of Impact Quantum.

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This episode of the impact quantum podcast is rated one schroedinger and is entitled Quantum is coming.

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I'm Frank Lavigna an this is the very first episode of impact quantum quantum computing is about the radically change.

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Uh, how we live an work, so let's roll the intro.

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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?

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Hey Frank is going awesome.

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How are you?

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I'm doing well doing well. I've got the I've I've got the fever.

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Do you? It's not covered. It's not Corona Squantum Fever. That's what I got.

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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?

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For miles back, let me tell you a story. In November of 2019 this is back when people would actually travel places.

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And congregate in large groups without thinking twice. This is before the words Wuhan meat market.

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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.

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Pike

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And, um.

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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.

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But the engineering wasn't in me, was not satisfied. Then I discovered machine learning and artificial intelligence, and where that was headed.

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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.

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Most people thought I was crazy.

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I mean, even I had my doubts about it, so yeah.

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Through

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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.

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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.

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It happens, doesn't have sure sure.

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And.

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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.

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And why?

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It is the next big thing.

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An I knew I was on the right track because when I came back I started...