davidryan (@davidryan) • Hey
Head of Product at Quantum Brilliance, the world leader in room-temperature quantum computers. Formerly founder of Corilla and developer relations at Red H
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- Spending a little time today catching up on what's new in the Lens Protocol ecosystem. I'll be covering this in an upcoming feature article on rise of protocols in the post-Twitter world. And... a lot of personal curiosity how far the Lens team have advanced since I checked in last year.
- Exciting news for the quantum computing community... and for myself and my team here at Quantum Brilliance. We're thrilled to announce the release of the **Quantum Brilliance Qristal SDK**, an open source platform for exploring and creating workloads for quantum computers.
We designed Qristal SDK so that you can easily develop and test quantum algorithms, simulate quantum circuits, and optimize your quantum programs for real-world applications. Whether you're a seasoned quantum developer or just getting started, Qristal SDK provides a powerful set of tools to help you unlock the potential of quantum computing.
Qristal SDK is completely #opensource so you can customize and extend the platform to meet your specific needs. Whether you're working on academic research, industrial applications, or exploring the frontiers of #quantumcomputing, Qristal SDK is the tool for the job.
Head over to the repository and start exploring the world of quantum computing. Now the release is out, I'll be working on onboarding and tutorial content for those newer to the quantum world, but drop me a line if you have any questions: https://quantumbrilliance.com/quantum-brilliance-qristal
- How do you prepare for those "big week ahead" moments? For me it's a mix of nature and exercise. Here's one of my favourite regulars... can anyone recognise it?
It's going to be an enormous week for Quantum Brilliance so I took the perfect Bay Area weather as a cue to get out of San Francisco, head down the bay, and hit a few trail runs.
This one is the Stanford Dish, which is still used to communicate with spacecraft, and the view around the trail covers the entire arc of Silicon Valley from San Jose up to San Francisco proper. Which accounts for an enormous arc of innovation, daring, and hard work that has shaped the world we know.
I know it's out of fashion to be a technology optimist. But that's just me. It's quite the thing to be able to anchor on moments like this, as a kid born in a outback Aussie mining town you've never heard of, to spend a Sunday running around actual space antennas in Silicon Valley, and prepare to spend the next few weeks supporting a team of brilliant technologists about to announce huge things... it means a lot. Not to mention a dose of medicine for one's mental health in what can be a confounding industry sometimes.
- Where's my science community at? If it feels like Lens can be a little too web3-focused at times, it's up to use to make things a little more scientific. Here's a great talk from David Tong (professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University), standing in the exact spot that Faraday stood when he gave lectures on his theories of electromagnetism.
The very fact that we can sit wherever we are in the world and watch this accessible talk about quantum fields and our updated idea of the universes's basic units, is just wonderful. Do yourself a favour and save this to your playlist and put on in the background sometime, you might just surprise yourself how much you will enjoy it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg
- Hullo! Vitalik here.
Proof it's me:
https://vitalik.ca/files/misc_files/socials.txt
- Posting for accountability and a little preview of what's coming. This is "Extant", a track first written way back in about 2006, when I started a side project with a few friends from other touring bands. I'd just left an electronic live act called Superfluid and gone overseas for a bit, playing solo in some wild and wonderful places (Exit Fest in Serbia was one of the wildest!) and came back to Australia full of inspiration from the European electronic music circuit.
Spending time with friends, which is code for "lying on lounge room floors at 4am after Progressive House and Breaks clubs all night", led to... this. Sessions in Ableton, sessions back and forth, tracking my synth collection and leaning on friends and future bandmates Leo and Kris for editing and arranging and, most of all, the accountability and serendipity to do a thing. That thing created some beautiful life memories, some laps of the clubs and raves and festival circuit, but most improtantly, momentum to do and make and create and experience.
So some accountability now... tidying up this file, for a track around 15 years old, mixing it down and prepping it for release next week as the first drop in an EP that was once (very literally) lost. And is ready for the release it never had. Not for any other reason than history, nostalgia, and putting these parts of our old live set into the digital everywhere where they belong.
- Hello world! I've just wrapped up a project and I'm taking a week or so off to get started on building on @lensxyz.lens .
I'm exploring the opportunities of collaborative content publishing on Lens, and revisiting the problem of team content staging, distribution, and analysis. I originally explored this space in the context of Developer Relations teams at the tail end of my time running Corilla (a CMS for technical writers). But I suspect we will find all kind of new and interesting things to tackle.
The project is called Bebop... a name inherited from the era of Corilla where we paid tribute to the wild sub-genre of Bebop Jazz that sounds like a big pile of notes being played all at once, but is actually an artful expression of ideas and feelings with a clever structure. Sounds like an appropriate project name for a decentralised, collaborative publish tool, right?
For reasons that will become clear over the coming days of this week's sprint... I'm starting by posting a stream of realtime tweets on Twitter, under the #beboponlens hashtag, and will be pulling that activity (and those followers) over here on Lenster.
Let's get cracking. Follow along here if you're still on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellodavidryan/status/1587230216912396289