Yonatan Cohen – Co-Founder & CTO of Quantum Machines – joins us in this episode to tackle quantum computing! Did you know anyone can run quantum programs on Amazon Web Services for mere dollars? Learn about this field early to take pole superposition in the race to understand and use quantum computers!

00:00:45 Introductions

00:01:20 Yonatan’s beginnings

00:03:49 The simulation question

00:05:51 How physics led to quantum computing

00:14:56 Richard Feynman

00:16:44 On the irreversibility of normal computers

00:21:25 Logic gates

00:25:04 Qubits

00:30:11 An example of qubits

00:38:19 Why simulating a quantum computer matters

00:42:23 NP-complete problems

00:48:57 More people at a higher development level are needed

00:54:16 Quantum machines in the middle layer

01:02:56 Working at Quantum Machines

01:05:05 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

Quantum Machines:
- Website: https://www.quantum-machines.co/
- Careers: https://www.quantum-machines.co/careers/
Yonatan Cohen:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonatan-cohen-10076b113/

References:

Getting Started with Quantum Computing
- https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/how-to-learn-quantum-computing

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