Welcome to a special, festive edition of Impact Quantum! In this episode, Frank La Vigne and Candice Gillhoolley come together for a lively live-streamed conversation, celebrating the launch of the Impact Quantum Advent Calendar—a creative twist on the traditional highlights reel. Instead of the usual show format, the hosts highlight some of the most memorable moments from their groundbreaking third season, which saw both the podcast’s popularity and the quantum industry itself hit new highs.
Tune in as Frank La Vigne and Candice Gillhoolley reflect on fascinating quantum developments from the past year, share behind-the-scenes stories, and discuss the making of their unique advent calendar filled with daily clips and insights. From quantum biology to quantum sensing and everything in between, this episode is bursting with curiosity, contagious enthusiasm, and plenty of holiday cheer.
Whether you’re an avid listener or new to the quantum conversation, there’s no better way to wrap up the year and get ready for all the exciting things coming in season four. Happy holidays from the Impact Quantum team!
Links
https://impactquantum.com/adventcalendar/
Time Stamps
00:00 “Impact Quantum Advent Calendar”
06:23 “Episode Highlights and Full Link”
08:18 “Project Progress and Challenges”
13:17 “Quantum Biology and Scent Similarities”
16:26 “Quantum Planting’s Emerging Potential”
21:08 “Broken French and Family Tales”
21:47 “Old Mower for Tiny Lawn”
26:16 Nvidia Robotics Deal Anecdote
31:06 AI and Quantum: Fascinating Progress
32:02 “Holiday Special Podcast Episode”
Transcript
Okay, so the following is a live stream that Candice and I
Speaker:did promoting our Impact Quantum Advent
Speaker:Calendar where we find a really cool and fun way to
Speaker:share the some of the insights that we had.
Speaker:It's definitely a lot more fun than your average highlight reel episode,
Speaker:so I encourage you to check it out@impactquantum.com advent
Speaker:calendar. There'll be a link in the show notes and let us know
Speaker:what you think as well as wish you all a very
Speaker:happy and healthy holiday season. And
Speaker:I can't wait to share with you all the cool stuff Candace and I are
Speaker:working on in the new year. So enjoy the show.
Speaker:Hello and welcome to
Speaker:Impact Quantum, an impromptu live episode. If you
Speaker:enjoyed the new dubstep theme song I have from the
Speaker:Frank's World live streams, let me know in the comments below. Wherever
Speaker:you're watching this, be sure to like, share, subscribe all that good stuff.
Speaker:My name is Frank Lavinia
Speaker:and you can catch me at the following URLs
Speaker:and with me is Candace Kahooli, the most
Speaker:quantum curious person I know. I always like to say
Speaker:the most quantum curious supposed. The most curious person I know because, you
Speaker:know, I think I said that on the stream and I was like, wait a
Speaker:minute, that's not right. How you doing?
Speaker:I'm doing great. Thank you so much. I'm actually really excited
Speaker:to join the the live, the live stream today
Speaker:to, you know, talk about what we're doing, you know, what
Speaker:we're doing for the rest of the month and just to say hi to
Speaker:everybody. Yeah. So you may have noticed that there was no
Speaker:show per se, on the usual Monday cycle that we like to be on is
Speaker:because we decided that
Speaker:one creative way to kind of end the season and it's been a successful season.
Speaker:If you look at our numbers. Like it just took off this year. Right. And
Speaker:this is season three and you know, season one and two. I mean, they're worth
Speaker:going back and listening to. But like, I think it really picked up this year.
Speaker:I think it was the addition of Candace for sure,
Speaker:as well as the industry itself has really taken off. Yeah.
Speaker:Starting last December actually with the Google's Willow announcement.
Speaker:And then, then you kind of had this, you know, nothing, nothing drives
Speaker:clicks like controversy. So then you had Willow's announcement
Speaker:of their success they had last December,
Speaker:and then ces
Speaker:where Jensen Wong was trash talking quantum computing. And
Speaker:that went to a back and forth between him, Bill Gates and a bunch of
Speaker:other people. Obviously a lot of people in the quantum
Speaker:quantum industry were not so pleased with that. And then he
Speaker:kind of walked back his comments about a month later
Speaker:at some other major conference.
Speaker:So, you know, so when, when the CEO of a, you
Speaker:know, a 5 trillion dollar company, I haven't checked today if they're still in the
Speaker:fives or in the fours, but, you know, the,
Speaker:the biggest valued company in the world trash
Speaker:talks your industry. It's a problem. Right.
Speaker:Because people listen. Right. And Jensen Wang is, is,
Speaker:you know, I would say 99 of the time,
Speaker:you know, knows what he's talking about. And that extra 1%
Speaker:isn't throwing shade in his direction. It's. He's still
Speaker:human. Right. And
Speaker:speaking of which, there's a really good audiobook I highly recommend.
Speaker:It's called the Nvidia Way. And if
Speaker:you don't have an Audible subscription already, if you go to the data
Speaker:driven book.com, you can get
Speaker:a free subscription on us, basically. Free book on
Speaker:us. And then if you get a subscription, we get a little, A little
Speaker:attaboy on the back from. From Audible.
Speaker:So what are we here to talk about today, Candace? We're
Speaker:talking about our Advent calendar.
Speaker:Yes. And we are super festive
Speaker:because this was actually your idea. I will give you credit for that. Oh,
Speaker:thank you. But frankly, it really, really
Speaker:came from the amazing season that we had.
Speaker:A hundred percent. You and I were talking about doing kind of like a highlights
Speaker:reel for December to
Speaker:kind of give us a breather. Two of my three kids have birthdays in
Speaker:December, plus the holidays and plus, you know, the general kind of
Speaker:urine stuff that I got to do for my day job.
Speaker:And it was kind of like, you know what, let's hold. Let's keep our powder
Speaker:dry until January when we can properly, you know,
Speaker:launch a new season. And we have a lot of cool stuff in store
Speaker:for, for season four. But we also had a lot of
Speaker:cool stuff happen this year. Yeah, I mean, we had 37.
Speaker:37 episodes was season three.
Speaker:And, you know, and when you think about
Speaker:the conversations that we had back in March. Right.
Speaker:You know, and, and so relevant, so exciting.
Speaker:And I just wanted to kind of take everything that we did,
Speaker:kind of mix it all up and say, let's just grab,
Speaker:you know, 24 highlights that
Speaker:we, you know, we don't want people to forget and make that,
Speaker:you know, a sweet little clip for every day,
Speaker:you know, with something festive. And then that's how we're going to
Speaker:highlight what we did in our podcast this season.
Speaker:Absolutely. And each one of them is a YouTube
Speaker:short and an article
Speaker:Right now, if you want to look at them, you got to go to our
Speaker:LinkedIn page because that's where we're posting them.
Speaker:And here's one. Let me know if you hear the audio cameras. Okay.
Speaker:Welcome to day one of the Impact Quantum Advent Calendar. Today's
Speaker:clip is on Schrodinger's graduate student. Quantum AI with Michael
Speaker:Magid. So what is, Jeff, do you think is the biggest miss?
Speaker:So we basically have a little short and then we have a link to the
Speaker:full episode and stuff like that. If you're, if you're, if you're that inspired to
Speaker:listen to the whole thing because, you know, again, we do want to, we do
Speaker:want to boost our numbers, but also
Speaker:learn the whole. Because I, you know, we highlighted these clips of
Speaker:conversations because we think they're important. And we also have an article kind of talking
Speaker:about the real kind of lesson from this. Right,
Speaker:right now that's the best place to go. The
Speaker:next best place to go is going to be when this is completed.
Speaker:Because this was also Candace's idea
Speaker:was how come we don't have a website where we can have this all. And
Speaker:this is big shout out to Enterprise DNA or
Speaker:NDNA who is sponsoring it this year.
Speaker:And big shout out to them.
Speaker:Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Right. We
Speaker:are still working on this. I'm actually Vibe coding it, which again, this
Speaker:isn't sponsored, but this is a perfect. I love this energy drink.
Speaker:So this is Arctic Vibe. I thought
Speaker:what better way to Vibe code with this?
Speaker:So you'll see, like, you know, we have the different days and stuff like that.
Speaker:But like, how long honestly did you take Vibe coding that. It was really
Speaker:impressive. It was really quick. I would say 15
Speaker:minutes for the initial structure and then the enhancements and stuff like that. The
Speaker:hard part is now where I really have to pay attention because that's the one
Speaker:thing I noticed about Vibe coding. You really have to pay attention to what it's
Speaker:doing, right? It just can't be like this one off window to the
Speaker:side. I mean, it can be because that's how I've been doing it, but you
Speaker:really have to pay attention to what you're prompt it because like, if you. It
Speaker:could easily get confused. And I would
Speaker:say the first initial framework was within like 30,
Speaker:15, 20 minutes. Right. And then
Speaker:kind of like it does seem to, it does seem to
Speaker:track with typical kind of development projects where like
Speaker:the last 20% of the project takes 80% of the time. It
Speaker:has that kind of xenon is It Xenon's Pirate Ox. I
Speaker:forget what it is, but, like, basically, the further along you go,
Speaker:the slower progress is.
Speaker:And so this is gonna be. I'm still
Speaker:working on getting, like, the links to stuff like that, and I have the pictures
Speaker:and we have.
Speaker:So you'll be able to click on it and kind of like all the stuff
Speaker:you would see in the article or most of the stuff you'll see in the
Speaker:article will be here. Right. So if you remember nothing else,
Speaker:you should, of course, you know, follow us on LinkedIn.
Speaker:But in the absence of that, if you go to
Speaker:impactquantum.com advent calendar, this is going to be continually
Speaker:worked on. I'm hoping to have it finished
Speaker:in the next couple days. Before we complete the first row here,
Speaker:I want to have it done and dusted and polished.
Speaker:No, I think it's great. I think it's great. And. And the fun part is,
Speaker:like I said, you get to go back and then listen. And
Speaker:the numbers have been really great.
Speaker:Now that I see we're highlighting specific episodes again
Speaker:and, you know, like, the first episode again was talking
Speaker:about essentially, the one thing you
Speaker:need in this field is a healthy
Speaker:dose of curiosity. Yes. And that was the first one,
Speaker:Michael Magid, we had a great conversation with him
Speaker:and really kind of like the key lesson there was
Speaker:if you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics,
Speaker:right? So, like, the whole thing of. Because for most people, this is a new
Speaker:field, right. Unless you're already studying
Speaker:physics or particle physicists.
Speaker:Particle physicists. This is new to you. Like, most normal
Speaker:people don't deal with this on a daily basis. Most
Speaker:people don't study this. Right. And it's hard
Speaker:stuff. The math is pretty wacky. The. The concepts
Speaker:behind it are so counterintuitive to how we experience the world
Speaker:at the. What they call it, the
Speaker:mesometric level. I think that was the. That was the.
Speaker:The SAT word for the day, right. So the
Speaker:idea is that, you know, there's three kind of
Speaker:sizes of things, right? There's the world we experience, right?
Speaker:That's meso. Meso is middle metric is measure. Right. So there's that.
Speaker:There's that Jesuit education where they forced me to study
Speaker:Latin and Greek, paying off that this many years
Speaker:later. There you go. And
Speaker:then there's kind of like what happens at the scale of planets and black holes
Speaker:and galaxies, right. It's slightly different than what we would
Speaker:experience. And then there's also at the
Speaker:subatomic level. Right. And those words, I Forget. But
Speaker:basically, you know, so the world we experience on a day to day
Speaker:basis is a very different world than you would experience in
Speaker:quantum space. Although as we've kind of progressed through
Speaker:the season, particularly in the last couple episodes, where we talk about quantum
Speaker:chemistry and quantum biology, well, maybe, just
Speaker:maybe some of the things we experience in our biology, in our
Speaker:lives do have some kind of underlying quantum explanation,
Speaker:right? Oh, absolutely. That's why I got so excited when we
Speaker:were talking to quantum biologist and
Speaker:then, and then when we were talking with, with Natasha and she's
Speaker:a, she's a quantum chemist. You know, it's, it's in the
Speaker:very molecules, in the very atoms, the very
Speaker:fundamental pieces of our universe of who
Speaker:we are are in fact quantum
Speaker:and run in a quantum way. And
Speaker:the fact that nature has existed and
Speaker:there are so many elements of quantum, you know, that are going on
Speaker:in nature and have been going on far longer than we have been
Speaker:knowledgeable, that that's actually what is happening.
Speaker:Right, right, right. And you know, we've had a lot of great
Speaker:conversations about that. And
Speaker:so I actually, I didn't tell you this yet, Candace,
Speaker:because it just happened yesterday. So inside my day job, I work at Red
Speaker:Hat, right. And that explains why there's a fedora over there.
Speaker:But we have a quantum interest group
Speaker:internally in the company and the, one of the organizers of it, she, she's doing
Speaker:a grad program actually in, in quantum computing.
Speaker:Okay. And she, part of her assignment is
Speaker:to, to talk to people in industry. And then she's
Speaker:like, can you talk to me about, you know, you know, like what she asked
Speaker:me, like, why we started the podcast and stuff like that kind of. It was
Speaker:an interesting conversation and it was,
Speaker:I was telling her about like, you know, quantum biology, right? Like, you know,
Speaker:that, you know, the, the fact
Speaker:that almonds smells like
Speaker:cyanide, right. Kind of an odd thing for them
Speaker:to smell the same. And one of, one of the leading theories, I don't know
Speaker:if it was ever confirmed, but the outer electron shell for both
Speaker:those chemicals, I
Speaker:forget what it's called, but the thing that makes almonds smell like almonds,
Speaker:right, Whatever that is, has the same electron shell
Speaker:shape as
Speaker:cyanide, right. Obviously two very different, otherwise different
Speaker:chemical structures with different radically different effects. But
Speaker:the fact that, you know, our noses kind of see them as similar
Speaker:kind of says something about our sense of smell, right. And
Speaker:that maybe it is, maybe it is somehow measuring quantum effects, which
Speaker:then has all kinds of other implications for, you
Speaker:know, the whole notion that we don't experience quantum
Speaker:kind of realities at, you know, mesometric scale.
Speaker:There's, there's that sat word again, kids.
Speaker:But it's true. It's like, you know, this, and also we, we, we
Speaker:talked about how the, this, the, this sense of smell,
Speaker:eyesight, you know, perceiving
Speaker:of color on wavelengths. You know,
Speaker:we talked about taste. Yep. You know, you have those
Speaker:people who, like me, who think that
Speaker:cilantro tastes like soap. Oh, really?
Speaker:Interesting. It's a genetic thing. Like there's literally
Speaker:like a gene that people have that, that turns that on or
Speaker:turns it off, supposedly. And it's funny because, you know, I,
Speaker:I, I, I have it, my husband has it,
Speaker:and therefore both of our children have it. Everybody thinks
Speaker:cilantro tastes like so here. But you
Speaker:know, again, the fact that some people have it, other people don't,
Speaker:and that's a whole other kind of quantum reality, which
Speaker:is just fantastic. Right, right, right. And I think
Speaker:that's exciting because in the virtual green room for this
Speaker:conversation you were talking about, we're not going to reveal too much,
Speaker:but there's a quantum sensing startup you
Speaker:were talking with. Oh, so, and, and you were like, oh, I
Speaker:just, just talking to a geologist. And I'm like, geologist?
Speaker:It's got to be some kind of quantum sensing thing. And you were like, yes,
Speaker:that's exactly what they're doing. Right. Because if you could detect whether it's, you know,
Speaker:oil, gold, you know, other things that are
Speaker:of value.
Speaker:I'll never forget the first quantum conference I went to, which was
Speaker:earlier this year. I went
Speaker:to and, and one of the, one of the speakers was like, you know,
Speaker:how many people here are into quantum planting? And, you
Speaker:know, nobody raised their hands. And he's like, I'm really surprised at that because of
Speaker:all the implications that you can have with quantum sensing, whether it's,
Speaker:you know, drone detection, stealth
Speaker:defeating, stealth systems or submarine detection.
Speaker:He's like, I'm in dc, I would expect that there would be a lot more
Speaker:of that. He goes, but, you know, where you're really seeing a lot of this,
Speaker:at least in the public sphere, is, you know, oil discovery, you know,
Speaker:know, kind of like detecting stuff underground. It's
Speaker:an interesting, it's an interesting field. And I think that,
Speaker:I think that we are really on the cusp of something big in, in
Speaker:that world. Oh,
Speaker:I think so. And the other thing that I can't, that is a very public
Speaker:thing is there's a place in Cherbourg, Quebec
Speaker:called QV Labs. And
Speaker:actually the the gentleman that I spoke to yesterday said, you know,
Speaker:you. You need to call up there and you need to go take yourself a
Speaker:little trip to Sherbrooke and go see this place. And
Speaker:it's. It's an incubator for Quantum. For
Speaker:quantum startups. Interesting. She give him a free copy of our
Speaker:book. Absolutely. The Quantum sales playbook.
Speaker:Yes. And I will say, like, anyone who is a
Speaker:nice. You like the Fordham reference? Dave Whitney. Holy
Speaker:moly. I went to school with this guy.
Speaker:That's freaking awesome, man. Fordham represent, baby.
Speaker:Yeah, Dave. Dave's an OG computer guy. He's actually
Speaker:fun story. So I know this is a sidetrack, but
Speaker:Dave could tell you this. I've been sidetracking my entire life.
Speaker:It was his Sun Spark workstation
Speaker:that I first saw Mosaic running. And for
Speaker:kids today, anyone born,
Speaker:Anyone born in the 90s will know what Netscape is. Right? But if you don't
Speaker:know what Netscape is, I feel really old. But if you don't know with.
Speaker:If you don't know, it was basically the first graphical
Speaker:browser, basically, I saw on his Spark
Speaker:Netscape thing. And I remember having a whole conversation with him, like, how do I
Speaker:get this on my Macintosh or my PC back in
Speaker:my. Back in my place? And the answer was not what
Speaker:I wanted. It was. It was a lot of money, basically.
Speaker:At least a lot of:Speaker:awesome, man. I told you. I. I
Speaker:went on. I was on the Internet for the first time, you know,
Speaker:before aol. I have really
Speaker:good friend shout out to Scott Nanis,
Speaker:who was, you know, an Apple genius, before
Speaker:there was a Genius bar, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker:We're old Oats. Remember before there were Apple retail stores?
Speaker:Yeah, that nice. And he took. He took
Speaker:my phone that I had at Columbia and he jerry rigged
Speaker:that into my computer. And the phone was a modem.
Speaker:Oh, yeah, that would have been. That would have been an engineering feat.
Speaker:This is probably late 90s, I would say, right? Yes, exactly. And that was just
Speaker:so exciting. So, like, I'm like, oh, my gosh, you know, what's the
Speaker:Internet like? You know, everything is, you know, black and green. You know,
Speaker:it's really just an eye opener to what was. What
Speaker:was possible. Right. Remember I told you I got emailed my dad and he called
Speaker:me up and he's like, oh, my God, you're going to get in trouble. Oh,
Speaker:that's right. Emailed him. Yes. He's like, how did you find out my email
Speaker:address? I was like, I don't know, I just kind of figured it's your name
Speaker:at IBM. And there you go. And then he's like, I only talk to the
Speaker:military. Like, what are you doing emailing me? I'm like, okay,
Speaker:I just figured out how. How about we be impressed? Right?
Speaker:Well, that was. That was the vibe back then. Yeah. Dave,
Speaker:I'll. I'll hit you up on LinkedIn or message later, because I
Speaker:don't think I have any of her phone numbers because I still have my Jersey
Speaker:phone number from when I lived in Jersey and It's been like 21 years.
Speaker:Which, again, speaking of feeling old.
Speaker:I have my Westchester. I have. I have my. That's what. You still have your.
Speaker:You still have your New York thing? Yeah, yeah. My New York cell phone number
Speaker:that I've now made my international cell phone number. Because once in
Speaker:New York are always a New Yorker. Like, that's born and bred, right? I walk
Speaker:around Montreal, Quebec, and then I start talking and they're like, who are you? I.
Speaker:And I'm like, oh, God. When I. When I speak French, it's really
Speaker:butchered. Because my grandfather was from Montreal
Speaker:and, like, and he was a country boy from. I guess it was still kind
Speaker:of rural. He's where he was from. And
Speaker:so it's kind of like country boy, French Canadian,
Speaker:plus an American New York accent thrown on top of that,
Speaker:because he never really taught my dad and never really taught me. I know all
Speaker:the bad words, though, because he would always fight with, like, he had this one
Speaker:lawnmower. He lived in Staten island where he actually
Speaker:did have a lawn, but the Lawn was
Speaker:maybe 20ft by 6ft.
Speaker:I don't know what that. I know what that is in Freedom Units, but I
Speaker:don't know what that is in metric, but it's not very big. And
Speaker:it took him like, you didn't really even need a mower to do it. Like,
Speaker:you could do like a push mower. But, like, no, he bought this thing, like,
Speaker:I guess in the 50s,
Speaker:and he kept that thing running barely. So you would
Speaker:take him like, half an hour to get the thing started, and then two minutes
Speaker:actually mow, like, the small piece of grass. Right. He's proud. He should
Speaker:be proud. And like. But, like, during those
Speaker:30 minutes, you would get a lesson in French Canadian
Speaker:profanity that.
Speaker:It'S all religious. 90 is religious. So. So it's funny, right? So, like, you know,
Speaker:I remember hearing the word tabernacle
Speaker:said, and it's a whole. It's a whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker:And the nun said it in church. Right. Because I went to, you know,
Speaker:Catholic school and. And I was just like. Did she just say.
Speaker:I mean, it's like the equivalent of the F word, basically,
Speaker:or other words that I'm not going to say on the stream.
Speaker:And I remember. I remember thinking like. And like,
Speaker:there were not a lot of other French Canadian kids in my
Speaker:neighborhood. In fact, there were none. Right.
Speaker:I look around, and for my ears, I hear
Speaker:basically something like the F word or another
Speaker:bad word that equivalent of offense said by a
Speaker:nun in church. Right. And I'm looking around and I'm
Speaker:the only one who noticed. Which really does a weird thing to a
Speaker:fifth grader's head. Where. Right. Yeah.
Speaker:It's about the same age where all the kids. And I can't say it on
Speaker:the stream, but they all learn how to say seal.
Speaker:Oh, and steal. When you. When it really sounds like
Speaker:the F curse. And they all walk around, they're in
Speaker:hilarity. That they learn that in school. Right. I keep on seeing.
Speaker:So you see all my boxes that are behind me. I noticed that. But that's
Speaker:Christmas. I was gonna say. Yeah, that will also
Speaker:end. Kids, birthday, like you talked about. Birthday. My son is
Speaker:born December 30th. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker:He's like, I get. Every year, I get. I get jabbed.
Speaker:You put the Christmas and the Hanukkah and. And the birthday
Speaker:all together. And I'm like, well, you want like three. Three little slippy
Speaker:things or you want like a nice, really good present. Right? You know? Right,
Speaker:right, right, right, right. Yeah. And plus a birthday, like. Yeah. So two.
Speaker:So. So. So Dave points out that the 917 area code and the
Speaker:212 are coveted. That is true, man. Okay. I have a 914.
Speaker:Right. Well, that's Westchester. That's a Westchester thing. But there's a whole bunch of
Speaker:new area codes that have been added since I left. There's like. And I'm get.
Speaker:I see them. Hell is that? And then, like, you
Speaker:can ask. I don't want to say her name, but there's a voice assistant
Speaker:from Amazon. If I say, you can always ask her, she'll tell you.
Speaker:But.
Speaker:So. So Dave may not know this, but I have since. Since I've last spoke
Speaker:to Dave. I now have three kids, all boys. And two of
Speaker:those boys have birthdays in December. So basically the back half of December
Speaker:is a complete blowout. Right. So which is good because I always save my
Speaker:PTO for that. Yeah. And you can make it Special. You
Speaker:just, you know, it, it's. That's why I tell everybody I'm done
Speaker:shopping. And I'm very, very proud of that. Like, I've gotten all my shopping
Speaker:done. I make sure that I am not buying anything else after December 1st
Speaker:because I have another. I have a daughter who's born in mid
Speaker:October. Right. So once, I'm sorry, mid November. So once, like.
Speaker:Oh, you kind of like getting to that birthday gift shopping thing. Yeah, I have
Speaker:not done anything. Right. I have not done anything this year
Speaker:yet, so. Although. What? That's why
Speaker:there's the boxes behind me. So that's why the box is behind you. Yeah, I,
Speaker:I know my gift is there. That's the DGX Spark. I'm not
Speaker:even gonna ask for anything else for Christmas, but
Speaker:I typically panic around when, when, when we get to December 10th, I'm like,
Speaker:oh, that's usually when. Which is better than December
Speaker:24th. Right? So, you know, baby steps. Well, you've probably already
Speaker:ordered it if you're. Maybe you're just waiting for it to come in the mail,
Speaker:but you know. Yeah, yeah, I actually, so actually
Speaker:this is a fun story. So. So someone at work shout out to you. Jonathan
Speaker:had sent me Nvidia. I should probably pull it
Speaker:up, but Nvidia has a deal on some of their robotic stuff. And my
Speaker:oldest is really into robotics. And
Speaker:you know, I basically told him, I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker:I probably should have read the email and the website more thoroughly because
Speaker:the first item on the list is like a two, three thousand dollar thing
Speaker:discounted from five thousand. So, you know. Okay.
Speaker:But they had like the jets and nanos and stuff like that,
Speaker:which you can plug into a robotics unit.
Speaker:I was like, I was like, do you want, you know, if you
Speaker:want something for that? But he's only interested in stuff that applies to the robotics
Speaker:competitions. Okay. And I don't think that that qualifies, but I'm like,
Speaker:I'm like, dude, if you want it, right, you know, your birthday and
Speaker:Christmas are here and it's on sale. Right. So. Right, right.
Speaker:But that's cool that he wants to, he wants to do the competitions. I
Speaker:know, it's really interesting and the reason, I've always thought that was really compelling.
Speaker:All right, I'm gonna be the dad that like, oh, like, brags on his
Speaker:kid. He's a captain of one of their teams now.
Speaker:Frank, that's fantastic. It's just absolutely fantastic. But I wanted to mention is that I
Speaker:had spoken to two people who were Going to be airing the episodes
Speaker:in season four. And both of them got their opportunities
Speaker:to get involved in, in Quantum companies through hackathons.
Speaker:Yep. And you know, that is, you know, very much
Speaker:how some of these companies are looking for their talent,
Speaker:you know, so it's great that he wants to start kind of competing in that
Speaker:arena. That's very exciting. It's a very exciting and very
Speaker:fulfilling, you know, pathway for sure. That's great.
Speaker:That's great. I am looking
Speaker:because I have this shirt on Quantum.
Speaker:I am looking. And apparently it was removed from the.
Speaker:Oh no, it's not totally removed.
Speaker:Let's see.
Speaker:It is an Amazon merch. But I'm looking for the US one.
Speaker:Oh, okay, here we go. Here's the US one. I
Speaker:will share that.
Speaker:There you go. Oh, okay. I will put a link in the
Speaker:description for that. We do kind of have a merch store. Do we?
Speaker:Data driven. I need to,
Speaker:I need to clean this up actually.
Speaker:Yeah, this is one of my designs, Coaxes for boomers.
Speaker:Okay. I had a whole discussion when we bought, when we bought this
Speaker:house that. Oh yeah, Dave. I also, since we last spoke,
Speaker:I moved to a different state actually, several times. But.
Speaker:Yeah, you've moved several times since Fordham, for sure.
Speaker:Yeah. Internationally too.
Speaker:Let's see.
Speaker:I don't know where I was going with this, but yes, we do have a
Speaker:merch store and I do have to organize it. Shame on me if I'm not
Speaker:getting it done by this. But I do love my Quantum
Speaker:Quantum beltway shirt. This is what was originally designed for.
Speaker:And I know you have to go soon, so. As do I. I have a
Speaker:80 page document, training document I have to review in check.
Speaker:I also do have to vibe code. They're not sponsoring us, but good
Speaker:Lord, I wish they would. Man, just send Case. I'll be happy. Yeah, we should
Speaker:talk to them. And
Speaker:yeah, so. So again, look, we, we really,
Speaker:we want to do something special to, to highlight what
Speaker:we were able to do in:Speaker:And you know, we know everybody's super busy
Speaker:in December wrapping up their year. But you know what, it's also
Speaker:just a really great time to just, you know, take a little break and say,
Speaker:you know, let me learn a little quick something. You know, let me hear
Speaker:what, let me hear what they're talking about. I mean, I have learned so
Speaker:much. Seriously. And that's what the, the shout out to
Speaker:you to my fellow Red
Speaker:Hatter. And. But like, that was the thing
Speaker:I told her. I was like, you know, like, honestly, like, I learn so
Speaker:much from each episode that I get so much out of it. It's
Speaker:just like, I can't help but do it now, you know? Yeah. And
Speaker:I'm really excited to take everything that I learned and then adapt it into the
Speaker:next season because it's. It's just. It's. It's just really, really
Speaker:exciting. It's really, really is. And it's so relevant.
Speaker:And, you know, that's why when you're seeing, you know, everyone, it took a while
Speaker:to start seeing AI on the news, right? And AI
Speaker:is on the news every night. And now, you know, it's
Speaker:not every night, but now you're seeing AI and Quantum. And so it's
Speaker:really exciting to see, you know, the
Speaker:progression and the augmentation of what's
Speaker:happening, you know, in. In the whole ecosystem. It's just
Speaker:fascinating stuff. So I'm really, really glad that we did this. I'm
Speaker:really 100. So go check it out. Join us now.
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Speaker:Subscribe. All that good stuff. And
Speaker:that's. That's our holiday special,
Speaker:right? It's a holiday special. Like, no, There you go. No singing
Speaker:wookies or anything like that.
Speaker:That's a deep cut from the 70s I don't think kids today will get. But,
Speaker:yeah, that's our holiday special. That's what we'll call this episode on the
Speaker:podcast. Okay. Impact Quantum Holiday special. Maybe next year
Speaker:we'll have a singing routine. I don't know. You
Speaker:can only hope or. Or. Or. Or fear. I don't know.
Speaker:Exactly. Exactly. Right. Exactly. All right, I'll play out the
Speaker:outro animation and catch you later. You got it.
Speaker:Thank you so much.
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