The hardware race

19:24I'm going to repeat the agenda for the rest of the episode. The agenda is the following. First, we're going to talk about what makes a good quantum computer. What are the criteria that a good quantum computer needs to satisfy? Next, we'll go over the other computing technologies, superconducting circuits, trapped ions, and of course, neutral atoms from our German boy. And then finally, we'll get into quantum silicon, this paper that's out in nature. We'll go over the history of the field briefly and where the recent paper fits in. And we're going to make sense of this cover photo because this cover photo has a lot of really cool tidbits that I think will be cool to understand like why certain parts are highlighted, things like that.

20:05>> It's quite nice. >> Yeah. Um there's if you if you notice there's three parts highlighted here. There's there's this square up here. Then there's this like um sort of >> half pipe a quarter pipe >> quarter pipe looking thing. It's like a ribbon. >> And then there's this tiny little square down here. So those are the three that are the big three that came out of this paper. and we're going to talk about all those um and what this paper means for the future of quantum computing in general. So that's going to be the episode. Um and before that, let's do some housekeeping. >> We'll do some brief housekeeping. For those joining us for the first time, welcome. This is the best science show on the planet. For those who really want to understand the fundamentals of the

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